Only a small bridge connects Indian Creek with the outside world, paradise with the rest of mortals. In fact, this small island of only 1.2 square kilometers is not attached even to the city center, but to the Miami Beach area. Of course: the boats in their mansions have easy access to both the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay from the berths that surround the island. What is not so easy is to get one of them. The price of his mansions can easily exceed 15 million euros, as two of his illustrious residents know: Ivanka Trump and Gisele Bündchen.
In recent weeks it has become known that both the president’s daughter (about to cease to exist), Donald Trump, and the supermodel have taken over land on this exclusive island, which is not easy, as most of its surface is occupied by a huge golf course and only its perimeter is divided into mansions. In the case of model Gisele Bündchen and her husband, American football star Tom Brady, they bought a piece of land, number 26, which contains a mansion that they will demolish to build another ecological and sustainable house, as well. as announced by the American media a few days ago. At the moment, obtaining that piece of land cost them 13.8 million euros.
Ivanka Trump and her husband, fellow government adviser Jared Kushner, shed even more money. But another well-known face was involved in this matter: Julio Iglesias. The artist saw his eyes a few years ago when he bought not only the mansion he had lived in for many years (which he was to sell in 2008, but which he eventually demolished to rebuild). , but also some plots nearby. His intention was for his children to build houses in them, but now that those from his first marriage to Isabel Preysler are adults and have earned a living, the 77-year-old singer has decided to reorganize his estate. -another way and sell some of them. For that of the president’s daughter, he could have put 25.3 million euros in his pocket, but it is not the only plot that the singer has. In 2012 he bought the mansion next door and, already in 2017, asked for 150 million dollars (more than 122 million euros) for a lot of four empty plots adjacent to his property, which together gave access to almost 250 meters seaside.
The Trump-Kushner marriage allegedly paid the amount for an empty plot of land of about 7,200 square meters, where there are no buildings, in a transaction they signed this week. There are only 34 houses in Indian Creek, all with views and access to the sea, so its population, according to the 2010 census, is 86. All are grouped around the boundaries of an 18-hole golf course and its exclusive club. The place, which has no shops, supermarkets or anything more than these exclusive houses, has been included among the most expensive in the United States.
Members of the royal families of the Middle East, sports coaches, European millionaires, great businessmen and famous artists are some of the inhabitants of this privileged bunker. Those living in the island’s Mediterranean-style mansions include supermodels Adriana Lima and Elle MacPherson; former CEO of the Sears clothing chain, Eddie Lampert; or 84-year-old businessman and investor Carl Icahn, whose fortune is estimated at more than 11,700 million euros, one of the richest people in the world and a great philanthropist. Also living on the island were former football player and coach Don Shula, who died in May, and for a time artist Cher, singer Ricky Martin and married couple artists Beyoncé and Jay Z, who sold their homes for about nine million dollars to a rich Dutchman.
The key for those who live there is privacy and above all security. The inhabitants are protected by a small internal police force made up of a dozen security officers, who patrol its waters 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In fact, to enter the island by road, through the bridge that connects it to 91st Street, you have to go through a checkpoint where you are either resident or registered as a guest, as found by the American media Business Insider during a visit to it. Whoever enters cannot take pictures or get out of the car. Although it is little to see, because the mansions are hidden by the lush nature and the strong gates. Anyone who manages to access the island will be able to travel on only one road: the only one on it, Indian Creek Island Road. You’ll cover it in about fifteen minutes. With this you will have seen everything, but in reality you will not have seen anything.