Billionaire Ken Griffin just bought a $238 million penthouse — and it's the most expensive home ever sold in the US

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• Billionaire hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin just bought the most expensive home ever sold in the US for $238 million, The Wall Street Journal reported.
• He picked up the penthouse unit of a luxury New York City skyscraper that's still under construction. 
• The sale comes days after reports of Griffin's purchase of a $122 million mansion in London.
• Griffin is worth an estimated $8.84 billion, according to Bloomberg. 

Billionaire hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin just paid $238 million for a New York City penthouse, breaking the record for the most expensive home ever sold in the US, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

The transaction smashed the previous record, set in in 2014 when another hedge-fund manager, Barry Rosenstein, bought a Hamptons home for $137 million, by more than $100 million.

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