Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has spent more than $100 million on a new home

The Amazon founder has spent more than $100 million on an island property following in the footsteps of Mark Zuckerberg.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has splashed $105 million on a 5.6 hectare Hawaii estate following in the footstep of fellow billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.

The recently divorced 57-year-old bought a three-building estate on La Perouse Bay on Valley Isle in Maui, Hawaii, recently for at least $105 million.

It is not known when exactly Bezos bought the pad but he donated to the Hawaii Land Trust in mid-September – the environmental conservation group in Maui. He also gave money to local charities around this time.

The Amazon founder has splashed out on an island retreat on Maui. Picture: Mega Agency

The billionaire purchased the property in an off-market deal from Colorado-based holding company Lochland Holdings.

The sprawling estate is home to three buildings and sits on a marine fishing reserve. It is also surrounded by dormant lava fields where the Haleakalā volcano last erupted in 1790. Scientists expect it will erupt again in about 500 years.

Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez. Picture: Getty Images

He follows in the footsteps of Mark Zuckerberg who has been buying swathes of land on the island in recent years.

He currently owns about 566 hectares of land in Hawaii worth more than $100 million.

The land, spanning most of Pila’a beach and Kahu’aina Plantation, includes a 566sq m house with a 16-car garage, offices and part of his security team’s headquarters.

Mark Zuckerberg has taken to foiling while in Hawaii. Picture: Mega Agency

According to local paper, the Garden Island, Zuckerberg faced national outrage in 2017, when he filed quiet-title lawsuits to buy pockets of land – called kuleana parcels – within his estate.

These landlocked patches of land were granted to native Hawaiian tenant farmers in 1850 and handed down through generations.

He withdrew the lawsuits after public backlash.