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Just 5 residents of this Miami-Dade area ‘control fortunes’ of over $191B, experts report

Bloomberg: Jeff Bezos buys 2 lots for $147M

(WPLG)

MIAMI – With Jeff Bezos owning two houses, experts with Bloomberg estimate that just a few property owners of Miami-Dade County’s barrier island village of Indian Creek control fortunes of some $191 billion.

Bezos, 59, who has an estimated net worth of $173.3 billion, purchased Indian Creek properties facing Biscayne Bay for a combined $147 million from a Brazilian and a Venezuelan, according to Bloomberg.

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Miami-Dade County records show one of the properties in reference sold for $79 million on Oct. 10. The previous owner had bought it for $28 million in 2014. County records show the other property in reference — which last sold in 1982 for $1.4 million — sold for $68 million on June 19.

This Miami-Dade County property records map shows the properties Bloomberg reported Jeff Bezos purchased. (AP FILE Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (MDC, AP FILE)

Here is the list of other Indian Creek property owners mentioned in Bloomberg report:

  • Ken Griffin has an estimated net worth of about $37.9 billion
  • Josh Harris has an estimated net worth of about $7.7 billion
  • Carl Icahn has an estimated net worth of about $5.8 billion
  • Jaime Gilinski has an estimated net worth of about $5.5 billion
  • Eddie Lampert has an estimated net worth of about $2 billion
  • Ivanka Trump has an estimated net worth of about $300 million
  • Tom Brady has an estimated net worth of about $300 million
  • David Guetta has an estimated net worth of about $200 million

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