Bin Laden's Mansion

Demolished Mansion in Southwest Orange, Florida, United States

Mar 12 2023

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Recent status	Demolished
Location #	19664

Pretty easy finding this one as a few news outlets mentioned the town and lake this mansion sits on. A quick google earth search and here it is. Before going to this location I didn’t see much posts on this place. Quickly a day later it seams like everyone and their grandma explored this place. Driveway is very overgrown but there is another driveway leading to this property from the neighbours. I was told the neighbour drives his golf cart over once in a while but doesn’t mind people exploring it. When approaching the mansion we noticed people already inside. A female held up her camera letting us know in urbex code she is also a photographer lol. This abandoned Mediterranean-style mansion was built in the 1920’s. It has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It is approx. 9700 square feet. It also has a guest house that is approx 3000 sqf. The property is located in Florida, USA and sits on 17 acres with 1200 feet of shoreline. Khalil bin Laden, Osoma Bin Laden’s brother bought this mansion for his family in 1980 for 1.6 million dollars. Shortly after the 911 attacks in 2001 the bin Laden’s fled their home with a police escort in fear for their life and safety. The FBI interviewed Khalil bin Laden after the terrorist attacks and there was no indication he had any links to terrorism that took place. Once they left the mansion there was reports of vandalism and even people coming in shooting up the place with guns. In 2006 the bin laden family sold this mansion to a business man for 4 million dollars. Shortly later the man went bankrupted. It was then sold in 2007 for 1.7 million dollars. Then in 2012 the mansion was leased out until 2014 when a couple bought the mansion for 2 million dollars. The couple bought the property so they could demolish and develop the property into a luxury apartment complex with over 240 units. The town officials and locals in the area did not approve the new construction of this apartment complex. In 2019 the couple later filled for bankruptcy. It was then sold to a development company for over 7 million dollars. It has been sitting abandoned for years.

Latlng: (28.543767472702, -81.655733585358)

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