America's Biggest (And Gaudiest) Family Home For Sale

Under construction: The Siegel's 30-bedroom mansion in Windermere near Orlando, Florida, is modelled after France's Palace of Versailles

At Home With The King And Queen Of Versailles: America's Biggest (And Gaudiest) Family Home Which Still Costs $65Million Even Though It Isn't Finished -- Daily Mail

* Owners David Siegel, 77, and his former beauty queen wife Jackie, 46, are the subjects of new documentary film Queen Of Versailles
* Movie was to chronicle the building of the largest family home in the U.S.
* It instead showed how the economic downturn forced them to stop building their dream home, a Las Vegas-style version of French palace Versailles


Times are tough in the property market with prices tumbling everywhere - and the biggest house in America is no exception.

The 30-bedroom mansion in Windermere near Orlando, Florida, which is modelled after France's Palace of Versailles, has had its price slashed by $10million to $65million.

You might think for that money, you would be ready to move in at a moment's notice.

But the gaudy mansion is only two-thirds finished and there is an estimated $30million (£17million) of work still to do.

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My Comment: Gaudy is too polite a term to describe this train wreck. Here is an easy prediction .... they are not going to get their asking price.