This Las Vegas Estate Has 110,000 Square Feet of Living Space – Robb Report

IS Luxury

Looking to house your extended family in the gilt-trimmed lap of unabashed luxury? Do you like to entertain lots and lots and lots of guests but still want your own privacy? Maybe you like to gamble now and then and don’t mind the desert heat? Just 7.5 miles west of the neon-lit buzz of The Strip, one of Las Vegas’s most epic estates is available with an asking price of $25 million.

Tax records show the vast, opulently appointed spread is owned through a private corporation, but it has long been reported to be owned by Jefri Bolkiah, the Prince of Brunei. The property was reportedly lent (or leased) to Michael Jackson for a short time back in 2007, the white-hot apex of the late King of Pop’s molestation scandal.

Construction began on the not-quite-finished 16-acre spread back in 1997 but came to a halt in 1999. The various buildings have remained unfinished and mostly unoccupied for decades. The 10 structures that comprise the property, which borders the prestigious Spanish Trail Country Club, are about 90 percent complete, with some finish work to be executed and appliances to be installed, according to listing agent Ivan Sher, owner of IS Luxury, who described the property as “a testament to the uncompromising commitment to luxury and comfort.”

There are more than 90 rooms spread between the 10 buildings, all extravagantly adorned with many colors of marble, numerous polished and precious woods, ornate tile work, and enough gold leaf to fill Fort Knox. 

Behind the two gated entrances, the 37,000-square-foot main house stands alongside an even larger, 47,000-square-foot athletic club/entertainment pavilion. There are four self-contained guest houses along with a study pavilion, a seven-bedroom, nine-bath caretaker’s building with an eight-car garage, a maintenance building, and a separate eight-car carriage house with additional living space for guests or staff. 

The main house, with five palatial bedrooms and eight bathrooms according to marketing material, not to mention a room exclusively for laying out clothes and jewelry, includes a wood-paneled gallery with a marble staircase and a by-any-account palatial double-height reception hall plus several smaller lounges. Elsewhere are a cafeteria-sized dining room, a music room, a library, and a dedicated billiards room. Along with the family kitchen, there’s a catering kitchen and service wing complete with a chef’s office and a one-bedroom butler’s apartment.

The athletic club/entertainment pavilion offers just about every reason anyone might ever need to stay home on a Saturday night in Sin City. In addition to its 10 bathrooms, various marble-clad galleries, and humongous, double-height private nightclub, the building houses a mosaic-tiled indoor pool, a hotel-sized spa and gym, a squash court, an indoor badminton court, and a two-lane bowling alley.

Two of the four guest homes each span about 4,500 square feet with four bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a private pool, while the two smaller guest villas each have three bedrooms and two baths within 2,700 square feet. The separate study building is modest by comparison at just over 1,700 square feet.

The grounds, most of which are landscaped or paved over, include a couple of soccer-pitch-sized lawns, several parking areas for hosting large events, dozens of palm trees, Mediterranean gardens and cypress-lined pathways, an outdoor swimming pool, and a tennis court.

Of course, it isn’t a simple or inexpensive matter to maintain a home of this magnitude. The gardens alone require outsized resources and the constant care of a crew of groundkeepers. And, indeed, according to local reports, water district records indicate the compound has used more water than any other residential property in Las Vegas for the last few years. It guzzled up 13,109,000 gallons in 2022, about 100 times more than a typical single-family home.

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