If you can’t call Orange County home, you still can play here.
OC is a second (or even third or fourth) home for many rich folks. They come here for the weather, beaches, shopping and other comfy trappings.
Our wealthiest package wouldn’t be complete without a little name-dropping of some notable people with homes here, mostly for leisure.
Here’s a shortlist:
Warren Buffett
Heather Locklear, Richie Sambora
Roy Disney
Pierre Omidyar, founder, chairman,
eBay Inc.; investor, Montage Hotels
& Resorts LLC
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, chief
executive, International Lease
Finance Corp.
Jack Kemp, former U.S.
representative, Housing and Urban
Development secretary
Lodwrick Cook, former Atlantic
Richfield Co. chairman; cofounder,
former director, Global Crossing Ltd.
Joel Laub, chief executive, Las
Vegas-based Astoria Homes LLC
Edward J. Herbst, chief executive,
Herbst Gaming Inc.
Gary Primm, former chairman,
chief executive of Primadonna
Resorts Inc
Paxson Offield, president, Santa
Catalina Island Co.
Benson Ford Jr., great-grandson of
Henry Ford
Thomas L. Phillips, chairman of
Potomac, Md.-based newletter
publisher Phillips International Inc.
Jim Easton, chairman, chief
executive, Van Nuys-based Easton
Sports Inc.
Scott Blum, founder, Buy.com,
ThinkTank LLC
Steve Johnson, funding partner,
chief executive, Sage Hill Partners;
chief executive, ChoiceStream Inc.
