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In Florida, the "kings of Versailles", champions of excess

2022-08-12T11:21:02.333Z


THEY WANTED THEIR VERSAILLES (6/6) - Jackie and David Siegel, a multimillionaire American couple, have been building a 9,000 m2 residence inspired by the castle since 2004. A fairy tale full of pitfalls.


Hall of mirrors, formal gardens, water games, large apartments: they look like Versailles but are in Spain, Germany or Italy.

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Special Envoy to Orlando

The "Queen of Versailles" awaits her palace.

On the shores of a lake near Orlando (Florida), the huge building has been under construction for almost twenty years.

Even unfinished, the project has already earned Jackie Siegel her nickname, which she wears on a necklace in diamond letters.

The Queen of Versailles

is also the title of a documentary film and then a television series devoted to the construction of the castle of Jackie and her husband, David Siegel.

Multimillionaire and owner of an empire of shared vacation homes, Westgate Resorts, David Siegel offered it in the early 2000s to Jackie, his third wife.

“David had taken me…

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Source: lefigaro

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