American billionaire Ken Griffin is the buyer of the world’s most expensive dinosaur skeleton for $44.6 million with the ultimate goal of lending it to an institution in the country for display.
The information, disclosed to the Wall Street Journal, was confirmed to AFP by a source close to the deal.
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American billionaire Ken Griffin is the buyer of the world’s most expensive dinosaur skeleton for $44.6 million with the ultimate goal of lending it to an institution in the country for display.
The information, disclosed to the Wall Street Journal, was confirmed to AFP by a source close to the deal.
Griffin, the owner of the Citadel pension fund and a major Republican donor, already spent about $43 million in November 2021 to acquire an original copy of the U.S. Constitution, which he loaned to a museum in Arkansas.
According to Sotheby’s, which arranged the sale of Apex on Wednesday because it is billed as the most complete stegosaurus skeleton ever found, dating back some 150 million years, the buyer “hopes to loan the specimen to an American institution.”
“Apex was born in America and will remain in America,” Griffin said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Forbes magazine estimates Griffin’s net worth at $37.8 billion. The former student of the prestigious Harvard University near Boston has donated more than $350 million in 2023 alone.
In 2017, the mogul donated $16.5 million to the Field Museum in Chicago so it could display another dinosaur specimen, the Tyrannosaurus “Sue.”