Which specific legal entities (LLCs) are listed as owners of Mar‑a‑Lago and Trump National Doral in county land records?
Executive summary
County and business filings repeatedly tie Mar‑a‑Lago to a Trump‑controlled club entity—recorded historically as Mar‑a‑Lago Club Inc. (now operating as The Mar‑a‑Lago Club LLC in some filings)—but the assembled reporting provided does not include a definitive county recorded deed listing for Trump National Doral by a named LLC; reporting instead refers generally to “Trump National Doral” or “Trump‑controlled” ownership companies without reproducing the exact county‑land‑record LLC name [1] [2] [3].
1. Mar‑a‑Lago: the club entity appearing in records
Multiple local reports and investigative pieces note that Donald Trump transferred Mar‑a‑Lago out of his personal name in the 1990s into a club ownership company and that Palm Beach County land and business records identify the club entity as Mar‑a‑Lago Club Inc., with later filings showing The Mar‑a‑Lago Club LLC operating as the holding company for the property [1] [2]. Palm Beach Daily News and openDemocracy both recount that Trump’s 1993 change of use and related “Declaration of Use Agreement” required the property be held by a club‑style ownership structure, and state filings after 2017 list family members in leadership roles of that corporate entity—details reported in county and state business records as cited by local reporting [1] [2].
2. Trump National Doral: reporting calls it Trump‑controlled, but specific LLC not shown in provided sources
Reporting identifies Trump National Doral as a Trump‑controlled resort in Miami‑Dade County and discusses its significance in politics and litigation, but the provided excerpts do not include the exact county deed or land‑record line showing the precise LLC name that holds title to the Doral parcels [3] [4]. Coverage repeatedly refers to “Trump National Doral” or to “Trump‑controlled ownership company” when discussing taxes, valuations and controversies, but the specific legal owner name recorded in county land records for Doral is not reproduced in the supplied material [3] [4].
3. Why the exact LLC name matters in public records and legal fights
Legal entities named on deeds determine who pays taxes, who can be sued, and what can be seized or encumbered; local tax appeals and state civil actions have referenced the club‑entity structure for Mar‑a‑Lago when arguing valuation and control, and New York litigation has probed how Trump entities reported values for assets held through such companies [5] [6]. Reporters and litigators therefore focus on recorded owners—like Mar‑a‑Lago Club Inc./The Mar‑a‑Lago Club LLC—because those are the formal titleholders in county and state files and control legal exposure and tax obligations [1] [5].
4. Conflicting threads in reporting and explicit limits of available excerpts
Some pieces emphasize business‑filing traces that show Mar‑a‑Lago’s operating company led by Trump family members and the club entity’s continuity since the 1990s [1] [2], while other articles stress that valuations and deed restrictions—not the bare name of an LLC—are pivotal in legal contests over value and use [6] [5]. Crucially, the material provided here does not include scanned county deeds or a Miami‑Dade property appraiser printout for Doral that would let this account reproduce the exact recorded LLC name for Trump National Doral; therefore this analysis does not assert an un‑sourced deed name for Doral and limits its factual claims to what the reporting shows [3] [4].
5. How to confirm the missing piece: where the county land records live
Public land records for Palm Beach and Miami‑Dade counties are the authoritative source to confirm the exact LLC names on title—Palm Beach property appraiser and clerk of court files will show the Mar‑a‑Lago deed chain (which reporting ties to Mar‑a‑Lago Club Inc./The Mar‑a‑Lago Club LLC), and Miami‑Dade clerk or property appraiser records would show the deeded owner for Trump National Doral; the supplied reporting does not include screenshots or citations of those specific deeds, so a direct search of those county databases is required to reproduce the precise LLC wording in county land records [1] [3].
Bottom line
The assembled reporting identifies Mar‑a‑Lago’s recorded club ownership as Mar‑a‑Lago Club Inc. (with later filings showing The Mar‑a‑Lago Club LLC in corporate records) and consistently frames Doral as held by a Trump‑controlled ownership company, but the exact Miami‑Dade county deed name for Trump National Doral is not present in the provided sources and therefore cannot be asserted here without consulting the county land records themselves [1] [2] [3].