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What do world's richest people buy? Find out...
When it comes to shopping, billionaires are different. They prefer to buy the most expensive, biggest and fastest products.
Here, we take a look at some million-dollar billionaire 'buys', according to CNBC.
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Paul Allen
History: Co-founder of Microsoft
Item: Yacht
Price: $200 million
The yacht is more than 400-feet long and is outfitted with a basketball court, a hot tub, and, of course, landing pads for two helicopters.
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Phil Ruffin
History: Gambling, real estate and oil production
Item: Boeing 737 jumbo jet
Price: $70 million
He spent $70 million on a Boeing 737 jumbo jet , then put an additional $15 million into renovating the interior, which he outfitted with leather seats, two full bedrooms, and a $1 million entertainment system.
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Truett Cathy
History: Founder of Chick-fil-A
Item: Batmobile
Price: $250,000
While 1992's Batman Returns film may not be the most memorable installment in the Batman movie franchise, it made such an impression on Cathy that he spent $250,000 to buy himself the Batmobile used in its filming.
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Hassanal Bolkiah
History: Sultan of Brunei
Item: Rolls Royce convertible
Price: $14 million
The prize of his fleet is the Star of India, a Rolls Royce convertible that he bought for $14 million, making it the most expensive car in the world by far.
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Roman Abramovich
History: Owner of Millhouse
Item: Yacht
Price: $450 million
It's the largest yacht in the world and it has amenities that can be hard to find on most luxury yachts, such as a missile-detection system and a submarine.
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Bill Gates
History: Chairman, Microsoft
Item: Scientific journals
Price: $31 million
Gates has bought one of Leonardo Da Vinci's few surviving scientific journals, which he purchased at a 1994 auction for almost $31 million.
Rather than keep it to himself, Gates had it scanned and made its contents available to the general public, who can buy it on CD for $30, or less than 0.0001 per cent of his original purchase price.
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Richard Branson
History: Chairman, Virgin Group
Item: SpaceShipTwo
Price: N/A
Branson unveiled his galactic vessel, SpaceShipTwo, at the NextFest technology exhibition in New York City. It seats eight, including two crew members.
Once in sub-orbital space, passengers are encouraged to unbuckle themselves and enjoy the experience of weightlessness inside the fuselage.
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Steven Spielberg
History: Film director
Item: Rosebud
Price: $60,500
In 1982, he purchased a piece of movie memorabilia at a Sotheby's auction for $60,500. The item was "Rosebud", the sled from the 1941 Orson Welles classic film Citizen Kane.
At the time of its purchase, it was the most expensive movie prop ever sold.
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Mark Cuban
History: Owner, Dallas Mavericks
Item: Private plane
Price: $40 million
In 1999, Cuban bought a Gulfstream V, a private plane normally used for business travel that's sometimes used as a military vehicle.
It set him back $40 million, and it also earned him a spot in the Guinness Book of Records, as it constituted the single most expensive e-commerce transaction in history.
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Victoria Beckham
History: Singer
Item: iPhone
Price: $36,000
She was seen at New York City's John F Kennedy International Airport carrying a custom-made gold iPhone. The device cost just under $36,000, and featured a photo of her dreamy athlete husband, David Beckham, in all his shirtless glory as its wallpaper.
Although she is not a billionaire, she has made it to the list because she engages in displays of conspicuous consumption that rank right up there with those of billionaires.