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Famous Real Estate That Has Been Razed
Loads of homes connected to infamous names have been demolished over the years ... so take a look at some pads with dark, dark clouds that have been met with a wrecking ball.
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Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein's infamous Florida mansion where he sexually assaulted underage girls was met with a wrecking ball in 2021.
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Jeffrey Epstein
The buyer plunked down $18.5M to do the honors of destroying it, and the cash spent on buying the place went into a compensation program for the victims.
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O.J. Simpson
O.J.’s Brentwood home lived in infamy for years – as you recall, it was where he was shacked up when Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were found murdered just a couple miles away.
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O.J. Simpson
The place was completely bulldozed in 1998 … just a few years after his acquittal.
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Ariel Castro
Castro's Cleveland home was dubbed a house of horrors after he kept multiple young women captive for over a decade, bound with chains. He pled guilty in 2013 to 937 charges including rape, aggravated murder, and kidnapping.
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Ariel Castro
The infamous property was demolished soon after he was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years -- and prosecutor Tim McGinty said he wanted the building to "come down quickly."
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Sharon Tate
The home where Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's minions was razed in 1994 after being a dark cloud for decades. As you know, Sharon and her friends were all killed there by 4 of Manson's devoted followers in the summer of 1969.
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Sharon Tate
It was eventually rebuilt as a beautiful 18K square foot home and was purchased in 2000 by "Full House" creator Jeff Franklin.
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Donald Trump
The former President's Maison de L'Amitié (House of Friendship) was his for 4 years before unloading the place in 2008 for a whopping $95M. The Palm Beach estate sat empty for years but was destroyed in 2016, making it one of the most expensive tear-downs in the area at the time.
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Jeffrey Dahmer
Dahmer's former apartment building, where he murdered several victims in the late '80s and early 90's, got razed in 1992 and is still a vacant lot after all this time.
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Jeffrey Dahmer
Attention was brought back to the building after Netflix's hit series surrounding the killer, and there were even talks about turning the lot into a memorial for the victims -- but the niece of Dahmer's neighbor told us that would be a terrible idea.
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Harvey Weinstein
The former home to the disgraced film producer was recently demolished, and the flat land now comes with a $21M price tag. His property was made out of 2 separate spaces that he picked up over the years -- and it's all located on one of the most expensive streets in Westport, CT. He began to unload the property back in 2018, just as his infamy began.
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Idaho Murder House
The house in Idaho where 4 college students were stabbed to death in 2022 got the green light for demolition earlier this year -- after the University of Idaho was given the off-property home from its former owners. The school announced it would get rid of the property, calling its destruction an important "healing step."
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Pablo Escobar
Drug lord Pablo Escobar once had a massive compound in Miami, but it was razed in 2016 and the land sat on the market for 5 years before a buyer shelled out $11M for it. FYI -- The "King of Cocaine" had this exact U.S. oasis seized by feds in the '80s while running his drug empire in Colombia.
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Whitey Bulger
Whitey Bulger's murder house -- AKA the Haunty -- where he murdered and buried 3 victims became a hot topic within the Boston Landmark Commission in 2019, but it was ultimately decided that the home, while rich with gruesome history, was "not significant." As a result, the home was demolished soon after and was rebuilt into a building that towers above its original design.
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