Jeff Bezos buys his third mansion on the exclusive island of Miami Beach

The founder of Amazon and owner of the second largest fortune in the world, Jeff Bezos, just made your third mansion on exclusive Indian Creek Island, in Miami Beach, for which he will pay about $90 million dollars.

As reported Bloomberg This Tuesday, citing sources with knowledge of the matter, the transaction was made outside the market and The American tycoon plans to live in the six-bedroom residence, while demolishing the other two houses that he previously bought on the island, known as the “Billionaires' Bunker” and located in Biscayne Bay.

Property records indicate that the mansion was last sold in 1998, for $2.5 million, the financial services site noted.

Bezos, 60 years old and adopted son of a Cuban, announced last November that he was moving to Miami from Seattle, where he lived for almost 30 years, because He wanted to be close to his parents, Jackie and Miguel Bezos..

“My parents have always been my greatest supporters,” he said then.

The American tycoon, who is the second richest person in the world with a fortune of $203.7 billion, according to the billionaire index Bloomberg, In June he bought his first residence in the privileged Miami enclave, for which he spent $68 million.

For the second property, acquired in October, he paid $79 million. This seven-bedroom, 14-bathroom, 1.84-acre mansion is adjacent to the first one he had purchased months earlier.

The village of Indian Creek has only 41 residential lots, has a country club and its own police department.

Although Bezos is the richest resident of the island, it is also home to celebrities and tycoons such as Jeffrey Soffer, Carl Icahn, Tom Brady, Julio Iglesias, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.

The businessman's properties also include houses in Washington, a farm in Maui and a residence in Beverly Hills, which he acquired for $165 million dollars in 2020, according to Bloomberg.

The founder of Amazon resigned from his CEO position in 2021, and since then he has been enjoying the good life with his fiancee, the former journalist Lauren Sanchez, with whom he made his relationship public in 2019.

In recent months, Bezos sold Amazon shares valued at about $8.5 billion, after "not divesting shares of the company since 2021." According to Bloomberg, the tycoon has not revealed plans for the income.

Bezos also founded the space company Blue Origin and is the owner of one of the most expensive superyachts in the world, the Koru, valued at $500 million dollars.