Our nation’s most recent — and now deceased — Public Enemy #1 was none other than Osama bin Laden.
The elusive mastermind and figurehead of the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization, al-Qaida, was recently shot and killed in a daring raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, ending a 10-year manhunt for the man who planned the deadly attacks on the United States back on Sept. 11, 2001.
Despite his seemingly humble rag-tag existence, bin Laden was a man of wealth, inheriting more than $300 million when his billionaire father, who was a construction magnate in Saudi Arabia, died in a plane crash in 1967.
He was also not an only child. Not even close — he has more than 50 siblings. And most of them, unlike their sinister brother, are well-to-do business men and women.
Khalil bin Laden actually owned a luxurious 1920s-era vacation home in Oakland, Fla., up until the 9/11 attacks. He quickly vacated the five-bedroom, Mediterranean-style mansion,”fearing they might be targeted because of the terrorist attacks,” according to an Associated Press report today, and sold it for $4 million in 2006.
That home, which overlooks 1,200 feet of private lake shoreline, as well as boasts a pool, horse stables and a four-car detached garage, is now the subject of foreclosure after the unnamed businessman who purchased it defaulted on the mortgage.
It is now on the market with a drastically reduced asking price of $1.99 million. Although is has been described as an “amazing property,” Forbes recently branded it as one of the “creepiest abandoned mansions” in the nation.
Ouch.
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