Not your usual tropical retreat, Albany is a sprawling complex of palaces. Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake attended the ceremonial opening of the 600-acre resort on the Bahamas’ island of New Providence in 2010, and houses there go for tens of millions of dollars.
There is an Ernie Els-designed 18-hole golf course, a mega yacht marina with 71 slips, and eleven restaurants that are only open to guests. Wealthy residents can send their kids to a boarding and day school split across two campuses while seeing an exact duplicate of Arturo Di Modica’s “Charging Bull” statue. One of Albany’s favorite catchphrases is “private community.
Sam Bankman-Fried house: Where does Sam Bankman-Fried live?
In Albany, if you arrive at the front door of a building in a cab and want to enter, the guard will grin and inform your driver, “You should know better.” It’s the kind of spot where, if you park yourself a little further down the road to photograph the sign, an unmarked car will soon arrive to inquire as to what you are doing.
Also residing there is Sam Bankman-Fried, who once told a reporter, “I’m not that much of a consumer, exactly.” In 2021, when Hong Kong got too hot to run an apparent worldwide cryptocurrency casino, the disgraced boss of FTX relocated there. He resides in a $30 million penthouse in the compound’s oceanfront Orchid mansion, where he and nine confidants managed a Bernie Madoff-like company while leading an opulent lifestyle in which staff members could order toenail clippers on demand.
