Jeff Bezos picks up Indian Creek estate next to his for $79M

Billionaire Jeff Bezos hit “add to cart” and purchased a waterfront estate in Indian Creek Village for $79 million, next to a property he acquired this summer for $68 million. 

Bezos bought the nearly 2-acre estate at 12 Indian Creek Island Road, sources told The Real Deal. Bloomberg first reported the news. The sale of the 19,000-square-foot, seven-bedroom mansion closed on Thursday, according to the Multiple Listing Service. 

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Dina Goldentayer and Danilo Tavares of Douglas Elliman represented the seller, Indian Creek #1 LLC, according to the listing and property records. The agents declined to comment. Goldentayer and Tavares also represented the buyer. 

The sale gives Bezos, the second-richest person in the world with a net worth of more than $155 billion according to Forbes, 4.6 acres of contiguous waterfront land on the island. Bezos acquired 11 Indian Creek Island Drive in June. Both deals total $147 million. 

Indian Creek is a guard-gated island north of Miami Beach, where streets are private, allowing only residents and invited guests to enter. His neighbors include billionaire Carl Icahn, hedge funder Eddie Lampert, Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and singer-songwriter Julio Iglesias. 

Goldentayer listed the mansion at 12 Indian Creek Island Road for $85 million in May. It includes a home theater, wine cellar, cabana, pool and 200 feet of bay frontage. The estate was built in 2000. 

Records show Indian Creek #1 LLC paid $28 million for the property in 2014. Leo Kryss, a co-founder of the Brazilian electronics and toy company Tectoy, is named as a registered agent for the entity, according to a mortgage recorded in 2020. 

Bezos and his fiancée, former news anchor and pilot Lauren Sánchez, had been looking for a new or renovated mansion in the Miami area, sources previously told TRD. Bezos’ ties to South Florida go back decades. He graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1982.

Last year, his parents, Mike and Jackie Bezos, purchased two waterfront homes in Coral Gables for $78 million. 

Though Bezos is the wealthiest person to purchase homes in Miami-Dade this year, he’s not the only billionaire to do so. Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin recently picked up another estate on Miami Beach’s Star Island, giving him nearly 6.5 contiguous waterfront acres. 

Eric Schmidt, a former chairman and CEO of Google, paid $63 million for two adjacent houses on the Sunset Islands in Miami Beach last month. Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have been collecting homes on the islands since at least 2020, spending more than $100 million over the past three years according to an analysis of property records and sources. 

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