On a December afternoon, architect Chad Oppenheim served drinks to about 100 guests on the stone motor court of his roughly 8,000-square-foot home in Miami Beach, Fla. Partygoers faced a 23-foot-tall covered courtyard entry, shrouded in a large curtain. Drums began to beat.
When the curtains opened, the guests passed through the courtyard into a darkened living and dining room filled with candles. They pulled back a second curtain to reveal an opera singer gliding toward them in a gondola on Biscayne Bay. Stepping out of the boat, she serenaded them.
The event, a fundraiser for the Wolfsonian-FIU museum in Miami Beach, was one of many bashes Oppenheim has thrown at the house. The property has hosted parties for a Netflix documentary release and brands like Audi and Ferrari, and served as a set in the 2006 movie “Miami Vice.” When it rained during his daughter’s 3rd birthday party, Oppenheim said, he brought the bouncy house inside the open-plan living and dining room, along with real ponies dressed up as unicorns with pink and blue manes, he said.
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But for all the fun Oppenheim has had in the home, he said he is itching for a new project, and has decided to list the Tropical Modern-style waterfront home for $33 million.
The six-bedroom home in the Sunset Islands has 80 feet of waterfront on Biscayne Bay, said listing agent Oren Alexander of the brokerage Official, who has the listing with his brother and colleague Tal Alexander. Measuring about 0.32 acres, the lot has two docks and a pool with a 25-foot-tall outdoor shower, said Oppenheim.
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The roughly 0.32-acre property has a swimming pool.
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The coral and limestone house is Oppenheim’s primary home with his wife, Ilona Mattli Oppenheim, and their two children. They bought the lot for $1 million in 2001 and spent about $5 million to build the house, completing it around 2003. Then, during Covid, they spent about $6 million refinishing it with natural materials and soft colors, Oppenheim said.
A reflecting pool fed by rain water sits outside the home’s entry. Inside, a media room has a hidden door concealed by a bookcase. But Oppenheim said his favorite area of the house is the primary suite’s private travertine terrace, which has another outdoor shower, a soaking tub, a seating area and roughly 75-year-old Bonsai trees.
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Oppenheim founded his eponymous architecture practice in 1999 and is known for designing the Miami high-rise Ten Museum Park and a Los Angeles home for “Transformers” director Michael Bay. Oppenheim said he also has homes in Aspen, California and the Bahamas.
Single-family homes in Miami Beach sold for a median $3 million in the third quarter, up 7.1% from the same time last year, according to Douglas Elliman. A nearby home on the Sunset Islands recently sold for $32 million in cash, according to the developer. The Sunset Islands are in high demand for their location near shopping and restaurants in Sunset Harbor, Alexander said.
Alexander said he expects prices in the area to continue rising this winter, as the Miami area enters its busy season.
The Miami Heat made one of the best decisions in franchise history five years ago by accepting a sign-and-trade for Jimmy Butler, but the same can’t be said about the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Sixers made the decision to retain forward Tobias Harris rather than Butler, who has led the Heat to multiple NBA Finals appearances. Meanwhile, Harris has not lived up to expectations, averaging 17.6 points and 6.6 rebounds on 48.8 percent shooting in six seasons with the team. It’s clear Philadelphia’s front office is feeling some regret about their decision, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Keith Pompey.
“Talking to my sources, the 76ers’ ownership group—they kinda regret what they did five years ago [in trading Jimmy Butler], and they see the success that he’s had,” Pompey said on the ‘Locked on 76ers’ podcast. “And they realize… he could be in their eyes, the missing piece, and they’re willing to give him the money he wants.”
While Heat team president Pat Riley shot down the idea of trading Butler in early May, contract disagreements could lead to a change of scenery. The 34-year-old forward’s familiarity with the Sixers’ organization could play an important factor in a trade. Butler and Joel Embiid’s time together ended on a devastating note, as Kawhi Leonard nailed a Game 7 game-winner on the path to their title.
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Anthony Pasciolla works as a contributing writer to Inside the Heat. He can be reached at ampasciolla@gmail.com or follow him on Instagram @anthony.pasciolla.
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MIAMI — A Miami professional athlete and fitness influencer is behind bars after she allegedly hacked an ex-boyfriend’s computer to leak another woman’s nude photos.
Stefanie Cohen Magarici, 32, was arrested on Tuesday and is facing multiple charges involving sexual cyberharassment and resisting arrest. She is better known as Stefi Cohen on social, where she has over 1 million followers on Instagram and is also a professional boxer and powerlifter.
On Nov. 15, 2023, the ex-boyfriend and the other woman came to Miami-Dade Police to report that Cohen had somehow accessed the ex-boyfriend’s laptop after guessing “commonly used passwords” to access his iCloud account and obtaining sexual photos of the woman and sharing them across various group chats she was a part of, the arrest affidavit wrote.
According to the woman, Cohen informed her of the leak and that she sent the nude photos with the purpose of “exposing and humiliating her.”
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Then on April 16, the other woman and Cohen’s ex returned to the police to provide additional information.
According to the woman and ex-boyfriend, Cohen became aware of their relationship on March 22, 2022. After this discovery, Cohen then proceeded to hack her ex-boyfriend’s laptop and begin sharing the other woman’s nude photos across the internet.
The photos, the couple explained, were meant to be only be shared between themselves and not other people, and that Cohen had shared them “maliciously and with the intent to cause emotional distress” to the other woman, the affidavit stated.
On Tuesday, Miami-Dade Police found Cohen walking along Loquat Avenue and tried to approach her, explaining that she was under arrest and needed to come with them to the station. However, she didn’t comply and began to walk swiftly away from the officer, saying that she was heading home and going to call her boyfriend so she could pick up her dog.
Cohen went on to disobey the officer’s commands and began to physically resist her arrest. At one point, she tried a leg sweep on the officer while in handcuffs and even broke the locking mechanism in the police car she was later placed into, the affidavit wrote.
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Hunter Geisel is a digital producer at CBS Miami. Hunter has previously produced digital content for local and national outlets, covering several topics from breaking news and current events to politics and pop culture.
A trailer blaze in Northwest Miami-Dade prompted a fire rescue response Wednesday morning.
Around 9:30 a.m., Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to a mobile home fire along the 1300 block of Northwest 79th Street. The blaze was initially isolated to one trailer but quickly spread to an adjacent one.
Police officers were also on the scene, helping close off the street to prevent anyone from getting near the fire.
No injuries were reported. Firefighters are currently onsite monitoring hot spots.
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