After the state of Ohio gave Jimmy and Dee Haslam $600 million for the proposed move of the Cleveland Browns to Brook Park, the couple purchased a $25 million North Palm Beach, Fla. mansion three days later, according to reports.
The oceanfront home is 5,906 square feet on 1.1 acres of land. It was purchased through Dee Haslam’s Knox-Main Trust.
The home, which was built in 1971, was purchased in an off-market sale. It was previously sold in 1990 for $3.2 million. It’s inside the gated Lost Tree Village neighborhood.
In a situation that’s been controversial, the optics of such a move cannot be considered ideal.
The US has always always always been one big grab. Land grab. Cash (gold? Oil? Oil not even in our hemisphere?). People for a brief period of time and now just in a much much more legally binding way. This time a bunch of crazy people who also happen to be insanely wealthy took a government. Not the first time and sure as fuck won’t be the last.