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    Check into Miami's most famous address: The Versace mansion re-invented

    It's the iconic home that put Miami's South Beach on the map. Designer Gianni Versace owned four homes around the globe including a palazzo in Milan Italy, a villa on Lake Como and the infamous South Beach mansion where he met his untimely death. (Versace was shot on the steps of the mansion on July 15, 1997, by Andrew Cunanan.) Now, a rare glimpse inside his lavish estate's latest incarnation.



    After a nearly six month, two million-dollar renovation, the one-of-a-kind property on Ocean Drive offers top tier service and accommodations as the new luxury hotel called Villa by Barton G. There are 10 custom suites that range in price from about $1200 a night to about five thousand a night.

    The hotel is named after Barton G Weiss, the president, owner and founder. He tells me that this property is about taking luxury to the next level. One big stand out is how he recruited butlers from around the globe to pamper the guests. Barton G says 'The butlers are an important experience, they manage your stay from the airport to the room and everything in between'. The butlers even unpack and repack for you. They iron and steam your clothes and care for your every need.

    Guests from any spot will feel at home, as e-readers provide your daily hometown newspaper and a new generation of sound systems bring you international radio stations.

    Believe it or not, The Villa also has a unique aroma that Barton G says he engineered for his guests.

    Pampering spa treatments are taken to a new level as well, imagine the four-person, eight handed massage. Sounds like a vacation to me.

    No detail overlooked. Enjoy the tour.

    See you next time on a brand new episode of Make Home a Haven.


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    103 comments

    • Sunnie  •  1 year 10 months ago
      UGLY..OVER-DONE..Who,in this crappy ecomonic climate would want to stay in this place? I could think of a million other things the majority of us could do with 1200.00..pay your rent, pay your car insurance, donate the money to a homeless shelter, feed poor kids..the list goes on..people who have that kind of money might be able to donate a wing of a hospital but most of us are struggling to feed our families every week. Now we know what the term "filthy rich" means.
    • Judy  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Maybe people need to realize what God wanted us to do to be charitable. That kind of money could be used to find a cure for one of our loved ones, but people never seem to realize things untill its to late! The children our crying out for help right here in the good U.S.A. and nobody seems to care! How many Grandparents our raising their childrens,children and nobody can seem to do nothing to educate these worthless parents of today!!! Alot of useless money going nowhere but for GREED!!!!!
    • Agnieszka  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Barton G. also has a great place to eat on alton rd.
    • second generation legal  •  1 year 10 months ago
      It is not the lack of resources that is responsible for crime, rather it is the lack of moral fiber in ones character. I was very poor for the first 35 years of my life. A lot of hard work and saving improved my bank account. I never committed a crime in my life.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  1 year 10 months ago
      G.J. (I could't imagine how you live) The emminity's are absolutely gorgeous in the Versace Mansion. How sad that he was brutally murdered on the steps of his home. Very Sad. I will definitely stay in the 5,000 dollar suite with a butler. It is beautiful. For those of you who find this distasteful, then 'you haven't any panache', or taste.... :)
    • Sassy Lassy  •  1 year 10 months ago
      GJ.........I agree !!!!!!
    • Anthony  •  1 year 10 months ago
      if i had the money i would stay there any time.. it's so beautiful very good taste!!! well worth the price.........
    • RJ  •  1 year 10 months ago
      This Barton guy looks like he must have spent all his money refurbishing the Versace mansion. He looks like a bum.
    • Rachel  •  1 year 10 months ago
      I was there at the end of April. I did not stay there but being in South Beach you must see the Versace House. I asked the body guard at the gate about the hotel. He gave me a business card and told me to call about rooms and dinner reservations. Then he scolded me for standing on the steps...So if you do go by there you can't stand on the steps of Ocean Blvd
    • D.  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Only the poor would think of renting a room like this ...Rich people live in luxury ..... they have
      no need to for this kind of care. Unless it was given to them for free or in exchange for something.
      The very rich are very cheap !! How do you think
      they became rich ? :<)
    • sarah  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Robert Q....Than thats exactly what you should do! The next time you are planning a vacation, think about all the poor and homeless people and give them the money instead. As you said, you can get a tax deduction. Sounds a bit different now when it comes to Your money and Your vacation. A lot of people (for whatever the reason may be) idolized Versace and feel special when they can be a part of where he lived. To them it is like entering an era and being able to experience how those super celebs live. Regardless. Any vaca is expensive. Especially when you want a decadent, romantic one. So get off these people who want to go there. If you want to coddle homeless people and give them your own vacation money, go right ahead.
    • Janice  •  1 year 10 months ago
      tacky. the whole place is tacky, there is nothing calming about that place, it is so busy it would be better to stay home relax turn the phones off and read or listen to music.....Bank that 1200.00 and go on a DREAM vaction after waiting about 5 days to do so.... that is .Italy, spain, france. NOT FLORIDA!
    • Santi  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Ostentatious, operatic, opulent and over the top, yet, strangely beautiful in its own way. It brings to mind the mansions of the nouveau riche and the robber barons during America's Gilded Age (the Newport and New York gilded mansions of the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Goulds, et al). But, nothing beats understated elegance, which is what I prefer.
    • peter  •  1 year 10 months ago
      i stayed there. got bedbugs...DESIGNER bedbugs though.
    • GhostGirl  •  1 year 10 months ago
      YEAH, I THINK ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME, WHEN I SEE THESE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON HOMES AND 10,000 GOWNS...ITS RIDICULOUS...HOW MUCH MONEY DOES ONE NEED TO LIVE...NOT THATTTT MUCH! THEY WASTE IT...ON WHAT, DESIGNER NAMES??? WHO GIVES A SH*T!! SO MANY PPL IN 'THIS COUNTRY' (&OTHERS) COULD BE HELPED! THERE IS A WAR VET THAT IS HOMELESS IN MY TOWN!! HOW FAIR IS THAT?! WHEN HE FOUGHT FOR US?! I GIVE HIM $ OR BUY HIM COFFEE WHEN I SEE HIM HANGING AROUND THE LOCAL MINI-MART. VERY SAD.
    • Patricia  •  1 year 10 months ago
      I totally agree with Robert Q.
    • Southern Lady  •  1 year 10 months ago
      You say he owned 4 places. Where is(What is) #4? Did Donatella Versace sell the Miami place? Did she sell any of the others?
    • A Yahoo! User  •  1 year 10 months ago
      You are RIGHT, tacky it is and it looks very stuffy!
    • Wondering  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Damn Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When you can help someone else less forunate!
    • tie dye ron  •  1 year 10 months ago
      I thought it was beautiful. Ostentatious yes , but beautiful. As far as 1200 a night goes, in ,my opinion unless that servant does some kinky things, nothing is worth 1200 a night,

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