Trump's Caribbean Home May Have Been Destroyed
President Trump owns a nine-bedroom beachfront mansion on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, but after Hurricane Irma tore through the region Wednesday the property may no longer be standing.
Le Chateau des Palmiers, as the house is called, has been the market for $16.9 million (the asking price was dropped from $28 million in August). It includes a heated pool, fitness center, bar and billiards area, and tennis court, all positioned on a white sand beach on Plum Bay in St. Martin. Take a look at what it looked like before the storm below.
But Irma's destruction was so severe that the hurricane destroyed "ninety-five percent of the island," Daniel Gibb, a local official, told Radio Caribbean International. He said St. Martin is facing "enormous catastrophe."
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told AFP that "the four most solid buildings on the island have been destroyed, which means that more rustic structures have probably been completely or partially destroyed." That means the prospects for Trump's waterfront property don't look good.
A New York-based representative for St. Martin Sotheby's International Realty, which holds the listing for the president's property, referred all questions to listing agent Lesley Reed, who did not immediately return a request for comment. T&C will update this post if Reed responds.
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