Billion Dollar Digs

The Teller loves getting invites to house parties but has a feeling we might get left off the guest list for Mukesh Ambani’s – India’s richest man – housewarming party. He and his family will be celebrating the completion of their billion-dollar home. No, you didn’t just read a typo.

Ambani’s 27-story tower of a home in Mumbai will have three helipads, a health club, dance studio, 50-seat movie theater and an underground parking lot fitting 160 cars. While reports say that it didn’t really cost a billion dollars to build (only multi-millions), it is what these luxurious digs are estimated to be worth.

With a house that’s about a quarter of the size of the Empire State Building, it’s no wonder Ambani has hired 600 wait-staff to cater to his 27 stories of needs. While some are giving him a hard time for erecting this monstrous home in country where millions of people live on less than $2 a day, The Teller has to give a brother props. His home was finished just in time for Halloween, and just imagine what kind of crazy haunted house his pad can be turned into. Oh wait, Halloween isn’t celebrated in India. Nevermind.

If any of you can score us an invite to the Mumbai housewarming party, and are generous enough to spring for a round-trip, first-class plane ticket, let us know.

Otherwise, The Teller will be throwing its own house party. Boxed wine, anyone?