FOX NEWS NEWS CORRESPOST PHIL KEATING explores car elevator in Porsche design tower in sunny islands, Florida. One of the luxurious condos of the building owned by Brazilian evangelical billionaire Edir Macedo is on sale.
The richest religious broadcaster in the world is seeking to charge his luxury condo in Florida.
Brazilian billionaire Billionaire Edir Macedo’s beach residence in Ultra-exclusive Porsche Design Tower Miami is now ranked just less than $ 14.6 million after a price reduction, according to public real estate data.
The Macedo, the founder and bishop of the universal Igja do Reino de deus (the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God), is not a stranger to live or deliberate controversy.
Its net value is estimated at $ 1.8 billion, ranking it 1,901 in Forbes’s real -time billionaire index. By comparison, Kim Kardashian’s net value is $ 1.7 billion.
Palm Beach, Wall Street of the South, has a hot luxurious real estate market
Porsche Design Tower, a $ 560 million architectural Marvel completed in 2017, is famous for his cars elevators transporting luxury vehicles directly to private Condo garages. In 2013, the real deal reported that “nearly two dozen from homes – 22 – under the contract will belong to the billionaires”.
The tower has a mandatory association of homeowners with monthly fees ranging from $ 4,277 to $ 12,069.
Macedo’s neighbors have over the years involved international celebrities such as Lionel Messi, Colombian Maluma Pop Ylli, Mexican actress Thalía and Andrea Romanello Ferdinand, daughter of Patrick Romanello, who Time New Yorksnapper Reported was “alleged to be a associate of the Bonanno crime family”.
Skyline Sunny Isles Beach Florida and Porsche Design Kulla are presented in Miami, Fla., July 11, 2023. (Giorgio Viera / AFP through Getty Images / Getty Images)
But Condo in Florida may not be the only one of the real estate that the Macedo holds in the SH.BA
According to a database of property intelligence reviewed by the Watchdog Group the Trinity Foundation, another Sunny Isles Beach worth $ 9.6 million is linked to the family. However, according to the research of the Trinity Foundation, Miami-Dade District Assets estimates only one shell as owner without publicly attached names.
The Trinity Foundation, a nonprofit investigating religious fraud, has long followed the Macedonian financial activities.
“The Macedo Empire includes media companies, banking interests and international real estate,” the group noted, citing his control over the Brazil and Banco Renner record television network.
The universal church is not just active in Brazil. It operates all over the world, including in Portugal, Mexico and the United States. The church even built a modern version of the Solon Temple in São Paulo, Brazil.
Billionaire Edir Macedo is foreseen on a screen displayed outside a copy of Solomon’s temple during an inauguration ceremony in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 31, 2014. (Paulo Fridman / Bloomberg Vitty Images / Getty Images)
Despite its clear wealth and power, the Church Website “Contact us” on its US website claims “The Universal Church does not provide financial aid programs”.
Their 24/7 Livestream available on the website of the Universal Church currently offers “Blessed Water” for sale, which aims to heal everything from depression to cancer.
According to the Trinity Foundation, the organization also owns four private aircraft and a helicopter, the assets that are rarely seen in the non -profit religious world.
The Macedo Empire has had legal problems. In 2008, he and his nine associates were charged in Brazil of cleaning approximately $ 2 billion.
Developer Gil Dezer stands on the car’s elevator at the Tower of Design Porsche at Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., May 9, 2017. (Rhona Wise / AFP through Getty Images / Getty Images)
As reported by the Associated Press, “The church is suspected of using fake companies to launder money, moving their assets abroad and then returning them into the form of loans used by the cat and his associates to buy businesses, prosecutors said.”
The Brazilian courts ultimately did not sentence the Macedo or his defendants.
More issues emerged in 2019, when authorities in Angola charged four leaders of the Macedo Church for Financial Crimes, including money laundering.
According to Ver Angola, the consequences led to the expulsion of 22 members of the Brazilian church from Angolan immigration officials.
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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God did not immediately respond to Fox’s business request for comment.
