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America's largest home nicknamed 'Versailles' is back from the brink [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 7, 2015 | Ashley Collman

Posted on 05/07/2015 7:04:37 AM PDT by C19fan

The owners of the colossal mansion at the center of the award-winning 2012 documentary 'The Queen of Versailles' are nearing completion on the 90,000-square-foot single-family home after experiencing some recent financial success. Time-share mogul David Siegel, 80, and his 49-year-old wife Jackie started construction on the Orlando, Florida mega-mansion more than a decade ago but had to but the home up for foreclosure after taking a huge hit in the 2008 financial collapse. But after sales rebounded at Siegel's company Westgate in the past few years, the Siegels took the home back off the market and construction workers are back to toiling away at the estate nicknamed 'Versailles' after its French inspiration. When it's completed, it will be the largest structure in America used as a single-family home.

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TOPICS: Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: mansion; share; time
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The home owner is the owner of Westgate Timeshares. I got suckered into buying one. The most aggravating part is the association fees that runs to almost $900. For a week timeshare that is almost $130 a day. I could probably a comparable hotel for that amount and I am still paying off the original price of the timeshare. Sales reps keep on bothering me trying to get more money from me. What is pathetic is they have a check off box if you want to contribute to Mr. Segal's charity. I leave that blank. How about using some of your own money for the charity and cut back on the gaudy mansion.
1 posted on 05/07/2015 7:04:38 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Maybe I’m being silly here forgive me, but I thought that the Biltmore Estate, built by the Vanderbilt family and featured in the movie “Being There”, was the largest home in the United States?


2 posted on 05/07/2015 7:12:51 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Technically the Biltmore now is a museum and not a residence. The Biltmore has over 150 K sq foot of living space.


3 posted on 05/07/2015 7:18:44 AM PDT by C19fan
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Looks like a mosque minus the spires.


4 posted on 05/07/2015 7:19:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: OttawaFreeper

It is and was, at 179k.

I think they mean the largest actually in use.


5 posted on 05/07/2015 7:19:20 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Whatever the size of Biltmore (built by George Vanderbilt) it is no longer a home but only a house.


6 posted on 05/07/2015 7:19:46 AM PDT by all the best
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What an embarrassing, bloated turd that “house” is!


7 posted on 05/07/2015 7:21:18 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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As fake as the Marie Antoinette wanna be


8 posted on 05/07/2015 7:26:35 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: all the best

The Biltmore is a beautiful, faithful rendering of french chateau-style architecture. This is an awful, EIFS McMansion that will fall apart about 2 years after the old con-man dies. His trophy wife will have to pay some newly minted Obamanation citizens to do a crappy patch job on the styrofoam facade.


9 posted on 05/07/2015 7:27:47 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: C19fan

One picture of the inside actually looks like the main hall of Saddam’s bombed out Victory over America palace.


10 posted on 05/07/2015 7:31:28 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: all the best

It’s not just a house , but a museum ,and a working orchard with a winery . The rose gardens are gorgeous . It provides jobs for the locals .


11 posted on 05/07/2015 7:33:10 AM PDT by katykelly
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Kind of ugly for my taste.

12 posted on 05/07/2015 7:34:35 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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Big isn’t the same as Good. It looks like something you’d see at Disney World. And just as fake.


13 posted on 05/07/2015 7:36:30 AM PDT by IronJack
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'If I have my way, it's going to be bigger,' Jackie Siegel said in a recent interview

The trophy wife (he was 65, she was 34) knows no end to her materialism.

The unfinished home sits on 10 acres of lakefront property and when completed will feature 11 kitchens, 30 bathrooms, 20-car garage, two-lane bowling alley, indoor rollerskating rink, three indoor pools, two outdoor pools, video arcade, ballroom, two-story movie theater modeled off the Paris Opera House, fitness center with 10,000-square-foot spa, yoga studios, 20,000-bottle wine cellar and an exotic fish aquarium... Two tennis courts, a baseball diamond and formal garden will be included on the grounds.

'I'm not at the ending to my story yet, but so far, it's a happy ending, and I'm really looking forward to starting the next chapter of my life and moving into my palace, finishing it and throwing lots of parties - anxious for the world to see it,' Mrs Siegel said.

14 posted on 05/07/2015 7:38:35 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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He has a pretty daughter.

15 posted on 05/07/2015 7:40:07 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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Whoa... he has fathered five more children with her, since he turned 65... she had two previously, and he fathered 4 others previously.


16 posted on 05/07/2015 7:40:40 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Money can’t buy good taste and class.


17 posted on 05/07/2015 7:58:10 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: C19fan

At his age he should be thinking “pyramid” not palace.


18 posted on 05/07/2015 8:17:56 AM PDT by Moltke
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At his age he should be thinking “pyramid” not palace.

No kidding, right? Thanks for the laugh. : ))

19 posted on 05/07/2015 8:37:38 AM PDT by broken_clock ( Cruz back to the future!)
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To: broken_clock

You’re welcome!


20 posted on 05/07/2015 8:48:09 AM PDT by Moltke
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