‘Scarface’ Film Home Close to Miami For Sale At $237M

The intense white, postmodern Miami-area home made well-known in Brian De Palma’s Scarface is in the marketplace, based on studies from The Miami Herald and others. The asking value? A cool $237 million.

The two.38-acre property is located on the water in Key Biscayne. It boasts 868 toes of water frontage, a ship dock, a 20,000 sqaure-foot overwater helipad and piano-shaped pool. The 13,000 square-foot house itself contains floor-to-ceiling home windows with a view of Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline, 5 bedrooms and a steel-and-glass elevator.

The elevator is the centerpiece of 1 one the film’s most memorable scenes — of which there are a lot of. In it, Tony (Al Pacino) visits the house of his new boss, the drug/automotive supplier Frank (Robert Loggia). As they banter, Frank’s “lady” Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer) descends within the constructing’s see-through elevator. It’s an entrance akin to Scarlett O’Hara descending the staircase at Terra. Tony is transfixed.

The property has a provenance that goes far past Scarface. Within the early ’70s, it was a part of a compound referred to as The Winter White Home the place Richard Nixon typically stayed — albeit in a way more modest bungalow. The helipad was constructed round that point. The bungalow was later demolished.

The present construction was in-built about 1981 by a person named Roberto Striedinger, who was a pilot “convicted of smuggling cocaine for the Medellín drug cartel,” based on one account cited by the Wall Road Journal. Becoming, then, that the construction additionally options within the credit of Miami Vice.

In line with the Herald, if the property goes for wherever close to asking, it should simply be the priciest house ever bought in Miami-Dade County. The standing document belongs to a March sale to Mark Zuckerberg. He paid $170M for on unfinished house on Indian Creek island.