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Billionaire buys Colorado mansion for $36.375 million

Leon Hirsch’s patience finally paid off. Hirsch sold his Wildcat Ridge mansion on Tuesday for $36.375 million to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, punctuating more than three years of trying to sell the estate using different brokers and even an auctioneer.

“We’ve had multiple offers,” said listing broker Maureen Stapleton of BJ Adams Real Estate, which handled both sides of the transaction.

The sale goes down as the third most expensive residential real estate deal in Pitkin County. The standard was set in February 2004, when Hollywood movie mogul Peter Guber sold his Mandalay Ranch, located outside Snowmass Village in the Owl Creek Valley, for $46 million to Dawn and Roland Arnall.

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