With just six bedrooms and a modest swimming pool, from the exterior the house is worlds apart from the sprawling mansions inhabited by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates – whom he yesterday beat to the top of the Forbes list of The World’s Billionaires.
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But inside the clues of Mr Slim’s vast personal fortune of $53.5bn (£35.8bn) are all around: the walls are adorned with the paintings of Van Gogh, Renoir and Diego Rivera, while the rooms are dotted with sculptures by Auguste Rodin – of which Mr Slim is the world’s foremost collector.
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