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Friday, July 20, 2007

Seriously, ‘Welcome to My Underground Lair’ Just Sounded So Much Better Than ‘Welcome to My Basement Apartment!’

Multiple choice question: Catapulted into the rarefied heights of extreme tech wealth by Broadcom’s 1998 IPO, the company’s wildly energetic, and overbearing, CEO Henry T. Nicholas III purchased: a private jet; a Lamborghini Diablo roadster; a Laguna Hills, Calif., estate; or an underground sex lair beneath that estate. According to Nicholas’s former personal assistant and bodyguard, Kenji Kato, the answer to that question is “all of the above.”

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