始建于20世纪30年代的贝莱尔庄园“卡萨恩坎塔达”（Casa Encantada）曾被视为洛杉矶最宏伟的宅邸之一。今年7月，它以1.3亿美元的价格易手，但这场交易却是在一个相当不起眼的拍卖会上进行的：在波莫纳市民中心广场的一处普通喷泉后，一名身着牛仔七分裤的拍卖师主持了一场露天止赎拍卖会。
Casa Encantada, the circa-1930s Bel-Air estate once prized as one of Los Angeles’s grandest homes, changed hands for $130 million in July in a decidedly ungrand auction: behind a nondescript fountain at Pomona’s Civic Center Plaza, where an auctioneer, clad in denim pedal pushers, conducted an open-air foreclosure sale.
知情人士透露，自拍卖结束数月以来，中标者的身份一直是个严守的秘密，而这家有限责任公司与科技亿万富翁彼得·蒂尔存在关联。
The winning bidder, whose identity has remained a tightly held secret in the months since the auction, was a limited liability company with ties to technology billionaire Peter Thiel, according to people familiar with the situation.