Paul Microsoft Allen's luxurious home on St. John Cap Ferrat in France: Villa Maryland, built 1904

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Villa Maryland, built in 1904 in St. Jean Cap-Ferrat. Paul Allen of Microsoft owned this lovely home, with flowering Judas Trees and Wisteria creepers, in prime St. Jean Cap Ferrat in the South of France, on the Riviera, next to Andrew Lloyd Webber's house. All of no use to Paul Allen now, alas. See the yachts in the Cap Ferrat marina behind the house and Monto Carlo / Monaco harbour in the backdrop. Paul Gardner Allen was an American business magnate, investor, researcher, humanitarian, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft alongside Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution and later became the world's largest PC software company. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imager