Who owned Epstein's Florida mansion at 9 Palm Beach or 3580(?) Little ??? — what were the recorded ownership transfers?
Executive summary
Jeffrey Epstein purchased the waterfront Palm Beach house at 358 El Brillo Way in 1990 and owned it through his death in 2019; the property was marketed by his estate, listed in 2020, and sold to Florida developer Todd Michael Glaser in early 2021 before being demolished later that year [1] [2] [3]. Public records reported in contemporary coverage place the key transfer points as Epstein’s 1990 acquisition and the posthumous 2021 sale from Epstein’s estate to Glaser for roughly $18.5 million [4] [3] [2].
1. How the property is identified in reporting: 358 El Brillo Way, Palm Beach
Major local and national reporting consistently identifies Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion by the El Brillo Way address—commonly cited as 358 El Brillo Way—rather than the user’s alternate fragments (for example, “358 El Brillo Way” is used in Associated Press and Forbes reporting and in local coverage) [3] [5] [1].
2. The first recorded high-profile transfer: Epstein’s 1990 purchase
Jeffrey Epstein is reported to have acquired the lakeside mansion in 1990 for $2.5 million; that purchase is repeatedly cited in contemporaneous news accounts dating back to 2019 and in later retrospectives that recount the house’s role in investigations into his conduct [1] [4] [6].
3. Estate valuation and market listing after Epstein’s 2019 arrest and death
Following Epstein’s 2019 arrest and death, his Palm Beach property was appraised and marketed by the estate: coverage notes an estate valuation figure of about $12.4 million in 2019, a public listing price of roughly $22 million in 2020, and a decision to sell as part of liquidating assets tied to Epstein’s estate and victim compensation efforts [2] [6] [7].
4. The recorded sale from Epstein’s estate to Todd Michael Glaser
The consummated transfer that removed the mansion from Epstein’s estate occurred in early 2021 when Florida developer Todd Michael Glaser purchased the parcel for approximately $18.5 million, a sale reported by outlets including Forbes, CNN and the AP; Glaser then obtained demolition permits and began razing the house that spring [3] [8] [1].
5. Demolition and the end of Epstein’s physical ownership footprint
Crews began demolishing the former Epstein residence in April 2021 after Glaser’s purchase and approvals from local authorities; multiple outlets tracked both the demolition timeline and Glaser’s stated intent to replace the structure with a new build [3] [1] [8].
6. Gaps, competing emphases and implicit agendas in coverage
Reporting across outlets focused less on exhaustive chain-of-title minutiae than on the house’s symbolic role in Epstein’s crimes and on the sale/demolition as closure for victims; some outlets emphasize estate valuations and sale proceeds directed toward victim funds, while developer-focused pieces highlight Glaser’s plans—readers should note that human-interest and restorative narratives can shape which ownership details are foregrounded [2] [9] [3].
7. What can be confirmed from the provided reporting—and what cannot
From the assembled reporting one can confirm Epstein’s 1990 purchase (about $2.5M), the estate’s later listings and valuations (2019–2020), and the 2021 sale to Todd Michael Glaser for about $18.5M followed by demolition [4] [2] [3] [1]. The available sources in this packet do not provide a full public-record chain-of-title beyond those headline transfers (for instance, intermediary trust names, deed instrument numbers, or every pre-1990 owner are not detailed here), so those finer legal-record specifics cannot be asserted from these sources alone [3] [1].