- Miami’s Indian Creek Village is a tiny private island with just 34 homes that’s been nicknamed the “Billionaire Bunker” for the famous and ultrawealthy people who call it home.
- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, supermodel Adriana Lima, and former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula are among the island’s elite residents.
- Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias’ father, listed the empty lot he owns there for $31.8 million earlier this year. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are in contract to buy the parcel of land for $30 million, according to a Page Six report.
- The island’s 42 residents are protected by a private 13-person police force that patrols the perimeter from the water and by land.
- In summer 2019, Business Insider got a tour of Indian Creek Village. It was a high-security experience where we had to be on a list to pass through the gate into the island, but couldn’t get out of the car or take photos of the homes. Here’s what happened.
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It’s been called the “Billionaire Bunker” and one of the “wealthiest, private, most secure communities in Miami Beach and the world.”
Indian Creek is a village of just 42 people on a tiny private island in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. Its “Billionaire Bunker” nickname stems from its wildly wealthy and high-profile residents, including the billionaire investor Carl Icahn, the supermodel Adriana Lima, and the Spanish singer Julio Iglesias.
And now, according to a Page Six report, the island may just be getting a new set of ultrawealthy — and ultrafamous — residents: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. The pair are said to have dropped over $30 million on a waterfront lot on the exclusive island, which Business Insider reported on earlier this year when Julio Iglesias put it up for sale.
“Indian Creek is an exclusive 300-acre island located on the beautiful waters of Biscayne Bay and recognized as one of the wealthiest, private, most secure communities in Miami Beach, and the world,” Michael Light, the founder of Miami Luxury Homes and senior director of luxury sales at Douglas Elliman, wrote on his website.
“The high level of privacy and security is the highest priority to the residents of Indian Creek and maintained by having its own private police force, as well as its own 24/7 armed marine patrol monitoring the waters surrounding the island.”
I got a tour of the island from Nelson Gonzalez, a luxury realtor and the senior vice president of EWM Realty International.
Here’s what it’s like on the exclusive, high-security island.
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