Fintech billionaire Ronald Clarke is the buyer who paid $97.5 million for a waterfront compound in North Palm Beach last week.
A Delaware LLC managed by Clarke bought William Wrigley Jr.’s 2.5-acre property at 11465 and 11472 Old Harbour Road, property records show. Wrigley, an heir to the Wrigley chewing gum fortune, set a record for North Palm Beach and the Lost Tree Village neighborhood with the sale. The deal is one of the biggest to close in South Florida this year.
Clarke is chairman and CEO of Corpay, a multibillion-dollar digital payments company that’s headquartered in Atlanta. The company was previously called FleetCor. He is worth $1.5 billion, according to Forbes.
The property includes two mansions, built in 2013 and 2014, and multiple docks. Wrigley paid $11 million for the larger property in 2009 and $6.1 million for the smaller piece in 2010, records show.
Serhant’s Gary Pohrer represented Wrigley, while Douglas Elliman’s Donna Hutchins represented the buyer.
Clarke and his wife, Leeanne, also own a waterfront mansion in Jupiter, records show. They paid $15.7 million for the 9,300-square-foot house at 194 Spyglass Court in 2022, in a deal that was also brokered by Pohrer, who was then with Elliman.
Wrigley is worth $3.6 billion, according to Forbes. He took over the family business in 1999 and sold the company to Mars Inc. in 2008 for $23 billion.
The previous record for Lost Tree Village was set in May with the $55 million sale of Canadian baby products mogul Maurice Pinsonnault’s mansion at 12032 East End. A hidden buyer purchased that home as well.
Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison’s $80 million purchase of a 7.4-acre oceanfront property in the gated Seminole Landing community was previously the most-expensive sale in North Palm Beach.
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