Amazon founder Jeff Bezos buys home in Miami’s ‘billionaire bunker’

Jeff Bezos, the founding father of Amazon, is shopping for an property on an unique man-made barrier island in Miami generally known as “Billionaire Bunker,” the place he will likely be neighbors with a rising listing of celebrities together with Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.

Bezos, 59, is paying $68 million for the three-bedroom, waterfront house, which sits on 2.8 acres (1.1 hectares), Fortune journal and Bloomberg reported. The Amazon founder stepped down as CEO in 2021 to dedicate extra time to philanthropy and different initiatives.

MTM Star International is listed on Miami-Dade property data because the earlier proprietor of the house. The county web site doesn’t listing Bezos because the proprietor, however exhibits the property bought in June.

Guillermo Olmedillo, the village supervisor of Indian Creek Village, instructed The Associated Press he has no details about the acquisition. The village has a rustic membership and its personal police power.

County data present the property beforehand bought for $1.4 million in 1982. The house has 9,300 sq. toes (864 sq. meters) and a pool.

Bezos just isn’t new to Miami. He graduated from Palmetto High School.

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