Why did Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen move to Florida’s ‘Billionaire Bunker’? The NFL star and model join Ivanka Trump, Julio Iglesias and more in Miami’s Indian Creek Village

Feb 18 , 2021

Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen and their children in Indian Creek. Photos: @gisele/ Instagram, Business Insider

The Biscayne Bay private island’s 42 residents include celebrities, billionaires and other public figures like Carl Icahn, Adriana Lima and Jared Kushner

An Indian Creek estate sold for US$50 million in 2019, breaking the record for the most expensive single-family home sold in Miami

It’s been called the “Billionaire Bunker” and one of the “wealthiest, private, most secure communities in Miami Beach and the world.”

Indian Creek is a village of about 42 people on a tiny private island in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. Its “Billionaire Bunker” moniker stems from its wildly wealthy and high-profile residents, including billionaire investor Carl Icahn, supermodel Adriana Lima and Spanish singer Julio Iglesias.

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen. Photo: @gisele/Instagram

In the past couple of months the island has gained some new high-profile residents, including Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen. The seven-time Super Bowl winner and his supermodel wife reportedly paid US$17 million for a property on Indian Creek that they’re planning to tear down and replace with a new, eco-friendly mansion.

The news of Brady and Bündchen’s purchase followed reports last year that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner had dropped US$32 million on a waterfront lot on the exclusive island, that Iglesias put up for sale.

In May 2019, I got a tour of the island from Nelson Gonzalez, a luxury property agent and the senior vice-president of EWM Realty International. Here’s what it’s like on the exclusive, high-security island.

Indian Creek is a village of about 40 residents on a tiny private island in Miami’s Biscayne Bay

The village’s 34 homes are built around the perimeter of the island, giving them all waterfront views. The centre is occupied by an 18-hole golf course and a country club.

“Indian Creek is an exclusive 300-acre (121-hectare) island located on the beautiful waters of Biscayne Bay and recognised as one of the wealthiest, private, most secure communities in Miami Beach, and the world,” Michael Light, the founder of Miami Luxury Homes and senior director of luxury sales at Douglas Elliman, wrote on his website.