Buffett Lunch Auction Raises Record $2.63 Million for Charity

Warren Buffett’s annual charity lunch auction raised a record $2.63 million on the final day of the weeklong contest after the bidder who’d already won offered more cash to set the mark.

The revised winning bid for a steakhouse meal with the 80-year-old billionaire beat by $100 the record set last year by an unidentified donor. This year’s contest is the 12th benefiting San Francisco’s Glide charity. The victorious bidder, who had won yesterday’s auction earlier with a pledge of $2.35 million, wasn’t immediately identified, said Denise Lamott, a Glide spokeswoman.