Dinner with Warren Buffett sold at auction for $9 million.

An unidentified bidder paid more than $9 million at a charity auction for the right to have dinner with Berkshire Hathaway founder and legendary investor Warren Buffett. The meeting will take place on June 24 in Omaha.

The bidding took place on the eBay platform and began with a starting bid of $50,000. A total of five bidders participated, notes the Wall Street Journal. At the same time, the winner of a similar auction in 2022 paid $19 million, recalls the edition. This was a record, and since then Buffett has not held charity dinners.

This time, Buffett and the auction winner will be joined by entrepreneur Ayesha Curry and her husband, NBA star Stephen Curry. The winner is entitled to invite up to seven guests.

The proceeds will be split between two organizations: the Glide Foundation, which assists the homeless in San Francisco, and Eat. Learn. Play. Curry Family Foundation, which supports school children in Oakland. Over the decades of the auction, Buffett has helped raise more than $50 million for Glide.

The 95-year-old investor himself attributed the break to his health. "At the age of 92, I ran out of strength. The spirit remained vigorous, but the body was getting weaker and weaker," the WSJ quoted him as saying. At the end of last year, Buffett left the post of executive director of Berkshire Hathaway, retaining the chair of the Board of Directors.

This article was AI-translated and verified by a human editor