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The playboy lifestyle of one of the world’s biggest Internet pirates has been exposed after a raid by police on his home in New Zealand.

Multimillionaire Kim Dotcom, one of the founders of Megaupload.com, was arrested Friday despite retreating to an electronically locked “safe room” in his sprawling home in Auckland, Dotcom Mansion.

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Officers, who swooped on the $30-million property in two helicopters, had to cut their way into the room. There they found Mr. Dotcom — a 37-year-old German national whose real name is Kim Schmitz — with what appeared to be a sawn-off shotgun.

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“It was definitely not as simple as knocking at the front door,” said Grant Wormald, a detective inspector, describing the raid on the 24-hectare estate, which involved more than 70 officers.

Police seized 18 luxury vehicles valued at $4.9-million, including a Rolls-Royce Phantom drophead coupe and a pink 1959 Cadillac, as well as art and electronic equipment.