Queen and friend.
Posted on 02/12/2019 3:17:53 AM PST by dennisw
Queen of Versailles' says her Florida mega-mansion - the largest home in America - will be ready in 2020, 17 YEARS after construction began....Jackie Siegel, 53, says her Florida mansion will be ready in 2020
She and her billionaire timeshare mogul husband David Siegel, 83, began construction on the mansion, dubbed Versailles, in 2004
The couple gained notoriety after appearing in the 2012 documentary Queen of Versailles Construction stopped due to the economy crash in 2008 and the death of their 18-year-old daughter in 2015 Siegel says they expect the grand opening of the largest home in America to be held in spring 2020
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Thanks to the Clintons, every rich person in America started their own charities as havens for their cash. How much of this cash they disburse to people in need is the question.
David Siegel has a long history of actual charity, not sure I trust the trophy wife, but David is very good. His efforts are smaller and more careful, as I’m not even sure he qualifies as a billionaire.
Each one will answer to the King about what he did with his talents. So each must watch and be ready for that accounting.
...the servant’s quarter
Uh, oh.
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I remember visiting the Biltmore house in North Carolina and seeing the many little servants ( slaves) rooms on the bottom floor. Calling it servants quarters these days is incredibly stupid.
Florida Man done good.
Slaves? Huh?
You do realize that Biltmore wasn’t built until the 1890s?
I’ve been there several times. Call them slaves, servants making pennies, whatever works. Their living quarters looked like tiny prison cells.
Looks cheap and out of place compared to Biltmore in North Carolina.
How many years are they going to have to enjoy this home? He’s 83.
Maybe there are more productive ways to use their time and resources?
Maybe a $5 million home would have been sufficient?
Queen and friend.
“billionaire timeshare mogul “
Ooooh.. I hate him already
“Calling it servants quarters these days is incredibly stupid.”
What, then, would you call that area? Employee accomodation? Siesta section? Hood for the help?
I’ve had employees for 40 years. Never called any of them my servant
The servants generally had homes in the surrounding villages or settlements. Most didn’t live full-time in those quarters.
The place looks like a hodge-podge of designs hobbled together with little aesthetic thought.
The covered portico looks like something a middle eastern monarch would include.
These monstrosities result from the fact being wealthy is no guarantee of good taste combined with the fact no one wants to tell these people no. They just agree with everything the client says and hope the project goes on for a long time so they can milk the fools for money.
A fool and his money...
Most, not all. So some, then.
It was only operated as a family home for less than 20 years.
I know. I’ve been there.
I thought I saw that this place is for sale?
I saw the Queen of Versailles documentary when it was in theaters:
They went and bought TONS and tons of stuff at local stores (the look on the face of the onlooking maid framed the mood perfectly), then they returned home and realize both their iguana and gecko were dead:
They had simply FORGOT somehow to feed them for quite some time.
The general portrait of them was one of people who were loaded down with cash but still somehow a little lost, that there was a certain unspoken emptiness about them.
It wasn’t just the standard lefty hostility to wealth and to the wealthy, either.
I believe the home contains a bowling alley for him (admittedly maybe small) and an ICE RINK for her.
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