Well one thing is for sure, the market for the Versace Mansion was not $12500万年 or the $7500万年 that it has been previously listed for. The posh US seaside villa where Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace lived and was murdered in 1997 sold in auction Tuesday for $41.500万年.

The fully furnished 迈阿密海滩 property went to VM South Beach LLC, a group led by investor Joe Nakash, 三个竞标者之一.

Rival offers were made by Eric Trump, the son of real estate tycoon Donald Trump, 还有格伦·斯特劳布, owner of the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club.

竞拍别墅, which is called Casa Casuarina and has 10 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, 从2500万美元开始.

The auction lasted less than 20 minutes in the mansion's swimming pool area on 1116 Ocean Drive, as reporters covering the event were kept outside.

The villa will be apparently be turned into a hotel and the idea is to expand the Victor Hotel to create one big hotel complex with the Versace villa and ask the Versace family for permission to use their name.

It will be interesting to see what the cost is fro that. The Versace villa was built in 1930 by architect and philanthropist Alden Freeman. He wanted to pay tribute to the oldest home in the western hemisphere, built in 1510 in what is now the Dominican Republic, 作者:迭戈·科隆, a son of Christopher Columbus. His name in Spanish was Cristobal Colon.

Gianni Versace bought the home in 1992 for $2.900万年.

The Versace family got rid of it after his killing, selling it in 2000 to Peter Loftin for $1900万年.

He put it up for sale last year for $12500万年. 没有买家出现, and he eventually lowered it to $7500万年 before finally deciding to auction it off.