The Mansions in the Hamptons

In the Times, Jim Rutenberg has a profile of Joe Farrell, the largest real estate developer in the Hamptons who builds mansions and is described as being like Donald Trump, but “without the history of debt, the lush hair or the insults”. Farrell owns a 17,000-square-foot mansion called the Sandcastle that has two bowling lanes, a skate ramp, and a regularly stocked ATM machine with $20,000 in it “just for fun.” Jay Z and Beyoncé rented his house for $500,000 last summer — for two weeks.

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