Alex Trebek Has Led a More Interesting Life Than All of Us

He Bought a Whole Mountain Just to Build a House on It

If you're making $10 million per week, you can afford anything your heart desires—and that includes a mountain. Trebek paid $1.5 million for just over 35 acres of land north of the Sunset Strip, chopping off the top of a mountain in order to build the sweet pad pictured above.

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