Miami, FL
Gisele Bündchen secretly buys $11.5 million Miami mansion opposite Tom Brady
Gisele Bündchen secretly purchased an $11.5 million Miami Seaside mansion straight throughout the creek from Tom Brady’s pad, Web page Six has completely realized.
The supermodel splashed out on a surprising five-bedroom, 6,600-square-foot residence that has a near-direct view of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback’s under-construction manse on Indian Creek Island.
Proving their troubled marriage was already doomed, Bündchen first considered the mansion on Aug. 16, days earlier than Brady’s stunning 11-day break from the NFL — which was stated to be a last-ditch try to avoid wasting their relationship. She closed on the property on Oct. 6.
“Gisele was actively houses in Miami Seaside even earlier than Tom took his break from the NFL, which signifies that she was already completed with the wedding and transferring on,” a supply tells Web page Six.
Brady’s in-the-works mansion has a waterfront view of Biscayne Bay, whereas Bündchen’s new house is in Surfside, virtually straight throughout the slim waterway also called Indian Creek.
“You may actually swim from Gisele’s place to Tom’s — not that they’d — however each houses will embrace a dock, so it will be very straightforward for them to co-parent their kids whereas residing so shut to one another,” the supply tells us.
The previous couple will share joint custody of their youngsters following their Oct. 28 divorce.
Bündchen’s residence sits on a 18,400-square-foot waterfront plot. The property itemizing states it has hovering 25-foot ceilings, quite a few terraces and views of a large waterway plus Indian Creek Island. It options 5 bedrooms and 7 loos.
It additionally has a big out of doors pool, residence theater, workplace, fitness center, playroom and an eat-in kitchen that opens as much as a patio. The master suite is on the bottom ground and options his-and-hers baths. It’s situated on a non-public cul-de-sac, providing Bündchen, 42, and their youngsters, Benjamin, 12, and Vivian, 9, extra privateness. (The athlete additionally shares son Jack, 15, with ex Bridget Moynahan.)
Brady, 45, is believed to be retaining their property on Indian Creek Island — also called the Billionaire Bunker, an unique enclave of rich residents together with lodge magnate Jeffrey Soffer, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and activist investor Carl Icahn.
The NFL participant and his now-ex-wife bought the $17 million plot of land on Billionaire Bunker in late 2020. They then tore down a 5,772-square-foot residence on the lot and started constructing an eco-friendly mansion as a substitute.
The property stays underneath development.
In December 2020, the legendary soccer participant confronted backlash for shopping for a $2 million yacht after his firm, TB12, obtained a Paycheck Safety Program (PPP) mortgage for $960,000. The 40-foot boat is called “Viva a Vida” after Bündchen’s environmental initiative.
In the meantime, sources say Bündchen — who was this week noticed vacationing in Costa Rica with their kids — has been not too long ago staying at a rented property in Miami whereas she will get her new houses prepared.
It’s believed she is going to perform a dramatic renovation of the brand new Surfside mansion to place it on par together with her different properties, which have all the time been eco-friendly.
The transfer comes after The Submit final month confirmed Bündchen bought a modest $1.25 million property additionally within the Surfside space.
She closed on the three-bedroom, three-bathroom Artwork Deco-style cottage on Feb. 28 after which submitted plans to transform the property.
It’s only half a mile from her new, much-larger mansion, and it’s believed the cottage shall be used as an workplace or attainable employees residence.
Bündchen filed for divorce from Brady in Glades County, Fla., on Oct. 28 after 13 years of marriage and 15 years collectively. He didn’t contest the submitting, and the dissolution of their marriage was finalized the identical day.
The previous Victoria’s Secret Angel wrote on her Instagram Story, “My precedence has all the time been and can proceed to be our youngsters whom I really like with all my coronary heart.
“Now we have grown aside and whereas it’s, in fact, troublesome to undergo one thing like this, I really feel blessed for the time we had collectively and solely want the perfect for Tom all the time.”
Brady stated in an announcement of his personal that they made the “painful and troublesome” determination “after a lot consideration.”
“We solely want the perfect for one another as we pursue no matter new chapters in our lives which are but to be written.”
Reps for Bündchen and Brady didn’t remark.