Nov. 15, 2021: Washington’s mystery mansion buyer unmasked

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🗓️ 15 November 2021

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In August, former Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and his wife Hilary Geary Ross sold their 10,000-square-foot home in Woodland-Normanstone for $13 million, according to D.C. tax records. It is the most expensive D.C. home sale of the last 12 months. The August deal was shrouded in mystery. The purchaser used an LLC called Salona Village Holdings that concealed their identity. The Rosses are barred by a confidentiality agreement from disclosing the real buyer’s name, Geary Ross told Daniel Lippman. But the secret is out. Subscribe to POLITICO Playbook. Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Facebook.
0:02.9	Hey, good morning, playbookers, I'm Rogumonovalin.
0:05.7	Congress is back.
0:06.8	Senator Patrick Leahy makes a big announcement at 10 a.m.
0:09.7	President Joe Biden signs the BIF at 3 p.m.
0:12.6	Steve Bannon is expected to surrender, and we got a scoop for you Zillow addicts.
0:16.7	This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:23.1	Back in August, former Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and his wife Hillary sold their
0:27.7	10,000 square foot home for $13 million.
0:31.1	It's the most expensive DC home sale of the last 12 months.
0:34.9	That deal was shrouded in mystery.
0:36.6	The purchaser used in LLC that concealed
0:38.8	their identity. Hillary told Politico that they're barred by a confidentiality agreement from
0:43.4	disclosing the real buyer's name. But the secret is out. According to multiple sources,
0:48.8	the anonymous buyer behind the LLC is Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire co-founder
0:54.0	of PayPal and friend of Trump.
0:56.8	It's quote, common knowledge among neighbors and real estate sources, one well-informed person-told
1:01.5	Playbook.
1:03.0	So the purchase of the splashing new Washington residence comes amid a burst of political activity
1:07.1	for Thiel.
1:08.1	Previously, he was best known in media and politics for secretly funding
1:11.2	the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gocker.com that bankrupted the site and for his speech
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