The Wall Street Journal: The Winning Bid To Have Lunch With Warren Buffett? $4.6 Million

An anonymous fan bid a record $4,567,888 in a charity auction to have lunch with Warren Buffett.

This year’s winning bid is up from $3.3 million last year and tops the previous record of $3,456,789.

The annual auction for lunch with the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman has raised almost $30 million for San Francisco charity Glide, a favorite cause of Mr. Buffett’s first wife, Susie Buffett. Glide offers free meals, health care and other services to homeless and low-income people in San Francisco.

An expand version of this article appears on WSJ.com.

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