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Fox News National Correspondent, Phil Keating, explores the car elevator to Sunny Isles’s Porsche Design Tower, Florida. One of the luxury condomines of the building owned by the Brazilian Edir Macedo evangelical billionaire, is for sale.
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The residence on Brazilian billionaire beach, Edir Macedo, in the ultra-exclusic Porsche Design Tower Miami It is now less than less than $ 14.6 million after a reduction in prices, according to public real estate records.
Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Igreja DO King of Deus (Universal Church of the Kingdom of God), is not strange in life or in the controversy.
Its net value is estimated at $ 1.8 billion, placing it in the 1,901st place in the real-time billionaire index of Forbes. By comparison, Kim Kardashian’s Net value is $ 1.7 billion.
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The Porsche Design Tower, a $ 560 million architectural marvel ended in 2017, is famous for its car elevators transporting luxury vehicles directly to private condominium garages. In 2013, the real agreement reported that “about two dozen houses (22) under contract will belong to billionaires”.
The tower has a mandatory association of owners with monthly fees ranging from $ 4,277 to $ 12,069.
Macedo’s neighbors over the years have included international celebrities such as Lionel Messi, a star in Colombian Maluma pop, Mexican actress Thalía and Andrea Romanello Ferdinand, daughter of Patrick Romanello, who the New York Times It was said that “he was assumed that he was a associate of the Bonanno crime family.”
Sunny Isles Beach Florida Skyline and Porsche’s design tower are displayed in Miami, FLA., July 11, 2023. (Giorgio Viera / AFP through Getty Images / Getty Images)
But Florida Condomination may not be the only real estate family in the United States in the United States
According to a revised property intelligence database by Watchdog Group the Trinity Foundation, another Sunny Isles Beach Condominis worth $ 9.6 million is family -related. However, according to the Trinity Foundation investigation, the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser lists a LLC Shell as owner without publicly attached names.
The Trinity Foundation, a non -profit that is investigating religious fraud, has long monitored Macedo’s financial activities.
“The Macedo Empire includes media companies, banking interests and international real estate,” said the group, citing their control of the Brazilian record television network and Banco Renner.
Universal Church is not fair Active in Brazil. It works worldwide, included in Portugal, Mexico and the United States. The church even built a modern version of the Temple of Solomon in São Paulo, Brazil.
The billionaire Edir Macedo is projected to a screen that is shown outside a replica of the Temple of Solomon during a ceremony of opening in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 31, 2014. (Paulo Fridman / Bloomberg Vitty Images / Getty Images)
Despite its clear wealth and power, the “Contact” page of the Church on its North -American website states “the Universal Church does not provide financial aid programs”.
Its streaming 24/7 available on the universal church website currently offers “holy water” for sale, which aims to cure it all from depression to cancer.
According to the Trinity Foundation, the organization also owns four private aircraft and a helicopter, assets are rarely seen in the non -profit religious world.
The Macedo Empire has had legal problems. In 2008, he and nine of his associates were charged with Brazil of whitening about $ 2 billion.
The developer Gil Dezer is in the elevator of the car in the designer tower of Porsche on the beach of Sunny Isles, FLA., May 9, 2017. (Rhona Wise / AFP through Getty Images / Getty Images)
According to The Associated Press, “the Church allegedly used fake companies to whiten money, move assets abroad and then return them in the form of loans used by Macedo and their accomplices to buy companies, according to prosecutors.”
The Brazilian courts finally did not condemn Macedo or their co-accused.
More problems were found in 2019, when Angola authorities loaded four Macedo Church leaders with financial crimes, including money laundering.
According to Ver Angola, the bankruptcy led to the expulsion of 22 members of the Brazilian Church by immigration officials Angola.
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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God did not immediately respond to Fox Business’s comments request.
