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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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?
Technically the Biltmore now is a museum and not a residence. The Biltmore has over 150 K sq foot of living space.
Looks like a mosque minus the spires.
It is and was, at 179k.
I think they mean the largest actually in use.
Whatever the size of Biltmore (built by George Vanderbilt) it is no longer a home but only a house.
What an embarrassing, bloated turd that “house” is!
As fake as the Marie Antoinette wanna be
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.
One picture of the inside actually looks like the main hall of Saddam’s bombed out Victory over America palace.
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 .
Kind of ugly for my taste.
Big isn’t the same as Good. It looks like something you’d see at Disney World. And just as fake.
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.
He has a pretty daughter.
Whoa... he has fathered five more children with her, since he turned 65... she had two previously, and he fathered 4 others previously.
Money can’t buy good taste and class.
At his age he should be thinking “pyramid” not palace.
No kidding, right? Thanks for the laugh. : ))
You’re welcome!
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