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Billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has lost his bid to build a multi-million dollar underground ‘doomsday lodge’ next to a New Zealand lake after district coucillors ruled it would ruin the area’s famed natural beauty.
Thiel, who is worth an estimated $7.7billion, had been applying to build a sprawling bunker-like compound containing a spa, ‘meditation pod’ and library overlooking Lake Wanaka on New Zealand’s pristine South Island.
But the Queenstown-Lakes district council on…
