Tony Sayegh, the former Trump administration official known as TikTok’s “Trump whisperer,” just dropped $17.1 million on a home in the Mar-a-Lago Security Zone in Palm Beach.
Records show Sayegh and his wife, Maria Sayegh, bought the 6,800-square-foot house at 150 Kings Road from hedge funder Peter Gerhard and his wife, Kristen Gerhard. The price amounts to $2,506 per square foot.
Compass agents Kristen Gerhard and Andrew Roopchand, of the Chad Carroll Group, had the listing, and Casey Flannery with Equestrian Sotheby’s International Realty brought the buyer.
Tony Sayegh served as assistant secretary for public affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and as a White House senior advisor in the first Trump administration.
After the first Trump administration, Sayegh took a role as head of public affairs for Susquehanna International Group, one of the biggest investors in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. President Donald Trump first raised the possibility of a TikTok ban in 2020, and the Biden administration continued the effort.
In 2023, the social media giant assembled a team of advisers, which was led in part by Sayegh, to lobby then-candidate Trump and his allies to prevent a TikTok ban, the Wall Street Journal reported. The effort resulted in the president joining the platform and signing an executive order to block the TikTok ban in January of last year.
Peter Gerhard is a former partner at Goldman Sachs and founder of the hedge fund G Capital Management. He and his wife bought the 0.3-acre Kings Road property for $2.3 million in 2013, records show. The house was built in 2017, and includes five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a gym and a pool, records and the listing show.
The couple listed it for $19.5 million a year ago, Zillow shows.
It’s the latest pricey sale in the Mar-a-Lago Security Zone since Trump was re-elected in 2024. In the first few months of his second term, buyers dropped $118.3 million on homes in the neighborhood secured by the Secret Service near the President’s home and private club. In March, financier Mark Marcello bought a $36 million mansion in the security zone. Robert Miller, a real estate investor and marina owner, bought a home in the security zone for $25 million in February.