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flag Billionaire Alex Karp bought St. Benedict’s Monastery in Colorado for $120 million, ending 70 years of monastic use.

flag Billionaire Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, has bought St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, for $120 million, the most expensive residential sale in Pitkin County history. flag The 3,700-acre property, established in 1956 by Trappist monks and used as a spiritual retreat, is being sold outside religious ownership for the first time. flag Karp, whose net worth exceeds $17 billion, did not disclose plans for the site, though it is not expected to serve as a residence. flag The sale marks the end of over seven decades of monastic life at the site.

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