Shaquille O’Neal sold his mansion in Orlando, Florida, for just $ 16.5 million – a Shaquille O’Steal – for nearly $ 12 million below the 2018 asking price.
The 31,000-square-foot complex on a nearly four-acre field has 12 bedrooms, 11.5 bathrooms and a 6,000-square-foot indoor basketball court, perfect for a professional.
The spectacular property in front of Orlando has a showroom with 17 cars, a cigar bar and a humidor and a soundproofed home theater. The anonymous buyer will also enjoy wine storage at home, three fireplaces, a chef’s kitchen, Crestron smart home technology and a lakeside office, as listed.
The property is surrounded by water, located between Lake Louise and Lake Butler. In addition, it has a huge swimming pool that shames the Olympic-sized pools. Close to the rocky waterfall of the pool, the property has an outdoor kitchen, a tiki-style cottage and a private dock with two covered boat slides, as listed. Next to it is an 18-hole golf course.
The 7-meter-1 basketball player bought the property for $ 3.95 million (or about $ 7.2 million today with inflation) in 1993, just three years after it was built, according to local property records.
Worth about $ 400 million himself, O’Neal first listed the property for $ 28 million in 2018 and withdrew the property four times before it was sold. He sold the property because he spends more time in Atlanta as a sports analyst for TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” according to Mansion Global.
It’s been a year since former 48-year-old teammate Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash, an event that prompted O’Neal to promise to change his own life. O’Neal has six children and is currently dating actress Annie Ilonzeh, according to the latest reports.
San Francisco brokerage listing agent Tiffany Pantozzi declined to comment.