00:00Palm Beach, Florida has been a haven for America's richest since Standard Oil tycoon Henry Flagler
00:06built the Florida East Coast Railway in the 1890s, as well as the iconic Breakers Hotel.
00:13The exclusive town, with a full-time population of 9,200, has seduced an array of notables
00:19including the Vanderbilts, the Kennedys, and Sylvester Stallone, with its heady mix of
00:24sunshine, sand, and low taxes.
00:29There are fewer than 2,500 homes in town, and only a fraction have a coveted ocean view.
00:36At the dawn of Trump 2.0, Palm Beach is once again the center of America's political universe.
00:43Here's a look at the rock stars and business bigwigs who are neighbors of the 45th, and
00:48now 47th, president.
00:53Trump himself scored Mar-a-Lago, built by serial heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post
00:57in the 1920s, for an estimated $10 million in 1985, or about $30 million adjusted for inflation.
01:06He turned it into a country club whose members are said to include New York Knicks boss James
01:11Dolan, author James Patterson, and football coaching legend Bill Belichick.
01:16Now worth north of $342 million net of debt, it's Trump's single most valuable real estate holding.
01:25He owns three other homes nearby too, including his late sister Marianne Trump Barry's eight-bedroom
01:30mansion across the street, purchased for $18.5 million during his first term in office.
01:38MAGA A-lister Sylvester Stallone, who Trump named a special ambassador to Hollywood in
01:44January, bought an 11,000-square-foot pad for $35 million in 2020, but got off to a
01:51rocky start with his neighbors, who opposed his plan to build a floating barrier around
01:56his property to fend off seaweed, trash, and prying eyes.
02:00He scrapped the plan in December.
02:03Steven Schwarzman, the chair of Trump's short-lived Business Advisory Council in 2017, initially
02:08said he would not support his longtime friend in 2024, but backtracked in May.
02:14The billionaire Wall Street titan, who co-founded Blackstone, owns a 15,000-square-foot home
02:19with views of the Atlantic and Lake Worth Lagoon, and sits on the board of the Palm
02:24Beach Civic Association.
02:27Rock star Rod Stewart has kept a sunshine-yellow mansion on South Ocean Boulevard since 1995,
02:34putting him in Trump's orbit for years.
02:37Former Mar-a-Lago member Jeff Green is a real estate and investing billionaire who didn't
02:42support Trump in 2024, but does see a silver lining to the election, telling Forbes,
02:48There's no question in my mind that having West Palm Beach on everyone's television
02:52screens all over the world is only going to help our brand and our city.
02:59Billionaire hedge fund titan Ken Griffin, who gave $100 million to Republicans in the
03:042024 cycle, lives in Miami, but looms large over Palm Beach, where he has spent $500 million
03:11buying and knocking down mansions to assemble a 28-acre estate, on which he's building
03:16a home for his 77-year-old mother.
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