Embattled college basketball coach Rick Pitino put his impressive mansion on Indian Creek Island in South Florida up for sale in November 2017 (about a month after he was fired from the University of Louisville for his involvement in a "scandal of" pay to play "), with a starting price of $ 29 million. Now, about two and a half years later, the mansion has finally found a buyer, at the significantly lower price of $ 17 million.
If you're unfamiliar with Indian Creek Island, it's an extremely prosperous enclave in the Miami area, known to some as "Billionaire Bunker", and for an idea of how accurate that nickname really is, the recently sold Pitino mansion was specifically billed at Marketing materials like the least expensive property on the island!
That's despite the 12,000-square-foot living space of the beautiful home, the resort-style pool, and the luxurious Italian marble interiors. But with Pitino's new concert at Iona College, which brought him $ 1 million a year (relatively insignificant compared to the nearly $ 8 million per season he was earning when he was fired), he's probably relieved to have closed the deal. for a long time. Expensive property.
Inside, the house has eight bedrooms and 12 baths, with additional amenities including a private elevator, a home office, a spacious gym that could be reconditioned to serve as a ninth bedroom, and an oceanfront dock with elevators. That adds to the other services found on Indian Creek Island, of course, like the 18-hole golf course and its own 24-hour police force on the island. And then there are those amazing shoreline views that are common to almost every point on the 300-acre island
To see those views, as well as the interior of Rick Pitino's former Miami mansion, watch the video below from Luxhunters Productions: