MOSCOW, March 9 — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has acquired several contiguous waterfront lots on Indian Creek Island, dubbed the “Billionaire Bunker,” worth a total of US$339 million, reported Sputnik/RIA Novosti.
The properties sit near Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s record-breaking US$170 million limestone estate, which includes a massive underground security bunker, according to a RIA Novosti correspondent’s analysis of public United States (US) corporate records.
On March 2, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, finalised the purchase of the nearly 30,000-square-foot (2,787 square metres) mansion at 7 Indian Creek Island Road on the private Indian Creek Island in Biscayne Bay.
The property is often called the “Billionaire Bunker” because of its isolation and extensive security measures. The island is located north of Miami Beach.
According to public records from the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser, Bezos now controls four parcels on Indian Creek Island, acquired from mid-2023 through June 2025.
Three of them, totalling approximately about 6.5 acres (2.63 hectares), are located near Zuckerberg’s new lot (Lot 7) on the island’s western shore.
The US$105 million purchase of a vacant lot at 9, Indian Creek Drive in June 2025 by the Ocean Trust, managed by trustee Joseph M. Hernandez, completed the contiguous strip alongside Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s existing estates at 11 and 12 Indian Creek Island Road.
Those properties, held by the Palm Trust and the Cape Trust, were acquired for a combined US$147 million in 2023 and are linked through their shared management by the same law firm, according to deed and tax roll data.
The acquisitions of 11 and 12 slots in 2023 were linked to Bezos through a high-profile lawsuit filed in mid-2024 by the former owner of the Lot 12 estate.
The connection between Bezos and the US$105 million Lot 9 is based on a pattern of legal proxies first revealed during the 2024 purchase of Lot 28.
In 2024, the media reported that Bezos paid US$87 million for the mansion on the same street.
Public records for that transaction identified the trustee as John C. Sumberg of the law firm Bilzin Sumberg.
When Lot 9 was sold for US$105 million in June 2025 to the Ocean Trust, it listed the same law firm address and another Bilzin Sumberg partner, Joseph M. Hernandez, as trustee, effectively linking the vacant land to the same legal team managing Bezos’s portfolio.
Thus, all four Bezos-owned parcels are managed by his partners.
The total cost of holdings on the island reaches US$339 million across four properties purchased between mid-2023 and June 2025, RIA Novosti has calculated.
