Jeff Bezos has recently splurged $90 million on a third mansion on Florida’s exclusive Indian Creek Island, bringing his total investment in the area, known as the ‘Billionaire Bunker,’ to $237 million.
The Amazon founder, who was recently ranked as the third richest billionaire in the world by Forbes, agreed to pay $90 million for a six-bedroom home in the exclusive Indian Creek Village near Miami, as reported by Bloomberg.
This latest purchase comes after Bezos acquired two mansions on the ultra-exclusive island last year, one for $68 million in June and the other for $79 million in October.
Photos exclusively acquired by DailyMail.com show that the waterfront property on the strictly gated island boasts a large front lawn and an outdoor pool.
According to property records, the third mansion in his Indian Creek Island portfolio was last sold in 1998 for $2.5 million.
Neighboring the extravagant mansions owned by real estate developer Jeff Soffer and NFL legend Tom Brady, Bezos’ new home spans a spacious 12,135 square feet.
The six-bedroom mansion is located on the opposite side of the island from the two neighboring homes that he purchased for nearly $150 million last year.
The Amazon tycoon plans to live in the house that he recently purchased in an off-market transaction while tearing down the pair of mansions, according to Bloomberg.
Bezos has been expanding his property portfolio since his engagement to Lauren Sanchez last year.
The first mansion he purchased was a modest three-bedroom property on the man-made barrier Island built in 1965.
It was previously owned by a company with ties to Panama called MTM Star International, which obtained it for $1.4 million in 1982.
Bezos then scooped up his neighbor’s mansion for $79 million in October of last year, which is set across 19,064 square feet and includes seven bedrooms.
The Miami’s Indian Creek Island overlooking Biscayne Bay is famously known as ‘Billionaire Bunker’ thanks to its mega rich residents, which are a mix of celebrities and business moguls.
The island is only accessible by a single, guarded bridge and is protected by a private police force that patrols the community around-the-clock by foot, sky and land.
Residents enjoy access to an exclusive country club and private 18-hole golf course while Miami’s South Beach is just eight miles away.
With a median house price of $29.5 million and around 40 residents, Indian Creek has been branded ‘the world’s most exclusive municipality.’
The area has previously attracted the likes of Jay-Z and Beyoncé, as well as current residents investor Carl Icahn and Jared Kushner.
Kushner and former First Daughter Ivanka Trump purchased their home for $24 million in April 2021 and spent more than two years renovating it.
Carl Icahn reportedly purchased his mansion in 1997 for $7.5 million, while Colombian banker Jaime Gilinski assembled five properties to build his family a compound.
Football star Tom Brady and his supermodel now-ex-wife Gisele Bündchen were also building an ‘eco-mansion’ in the community prior to their split.
Despite parting ways, the former power couple happen to live just a stone’s throw away from one another.
The latest purchase only adds to Bezos’ impressive portfolio worth more than $600 million spread across New York, Washington D.C., Beverly Hills and West Texas among others.
In 2022, the billionaire added a private Hawaii estate that spans 14 acres and is surrounded by dormant lava fields to his collection.
The three-building estate, situated on the picturesque La Perouse Bay on Valley Isle in Maui, Hawaii, set the ex-Amazon head back an estimated $78 million.
The year before he added a plush Manhattan apartment to the string of properties he already owned on the high-end Fifth Avenue in New York City.
The businessman bought up five properties over the course of three years to form a de facto mega mansion.
While in 2016, Bezos dropped a cool $23 million on a former textile museum in the exclusive Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC.
He also snapped up a $5 million property across the street which many speculated was for privacy reasons since it had a direct line of sight into the former museum property.
