May 15 (Reuters Arabic Sports Service) - One of the participants in an auction agreed to pay $9,000,100 for dinner with billionaire Warren Buffett and American basketball star Stephen Curry as part of a charity event.

The winning bid came in a week-long auction on eBay that ended yesterday, Thursday, without immediately revealing the winner's identity.

The winner, along with up to seven guests of his choosing, will attend the dinner on June 24 in Omaha, Nebraska, where the headquarters of Berkshire Hathaway, the company headed by Buffett, is located, along with Stephen Curry and his wife.

The proceeds will be divided between Glide and Eat.Learn.Play, with Buffett doubling the value of donations made to each, bringing the total amount to approximately $27 million.

Berkshire, Glide and Eat.Learn.Play did not respond to requests for comment outside of business hours.

Glide is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood that provides support to the poor, the homeless, and those struggling with drug addiction. Buffett raised approximately $53.2 million for the organization through 21 auctions between 2000 and 2022.

Buffett began supporting Glide after his first wife, Susan, volunteered to work there, before her death in 2004. eBay explained that the highest bid in its history for a charity auction was $19 million in 2022.

The Eat. Learn. Play Foundation, founded by Stephen Cree and his wife, focuses on providing nutritious meals for children, promoting literacy, and encouraging healthy lifestyles.

Curry, a player for the Golden State Warriors, is one of the most prominent stars of the American Basketball League, having won the championship title four times and received the best player award twice, while his wife Ayesha is known as an entrepreneur, cookbook author and activist in the fight against child hunger.

Buffett, 95, is chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and has served as its CEO for six decades. He plans to donate most of his fortune, estimated by Forbes at $143.5 billion, to a charitable trust overseen by his three children.