Meal with Buffett to draw big bids
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire Warren Buffett has raised more than $20 million for a San Francisco homeless charity since 2000, and he’s about to add to that total by auctioning off a private lunch.
The weeklong eBay auction that began Sunday will wrap up today. Six of the past eight winners paid more than $2 million to dine with Buffett, the investor who leads the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, with the record so far coming in 2012, when the winning bid was $3,456,789.
That 2012 lunch remains the most expensive individual charity item ever sold on eBay.
The lunch auctions began after Buffett’s first wife, Susie, showed him the Glide Foundation, where she had been volunteering. Susie Buffett died in 2004, but the connection between Warren Buffett and Glide’s founders has endured.
