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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Jeff Bezos' neighbor said he was cheated by a broker when he sold him his house, and legal experts say he has a case

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Jeff Bezos’ former neighbor said his broker cheated him out of millions when the Amazon founder bought his house in Miami’s “Billionaire Bunker”—and legal experts say he has a case.

Although the $79 million that Bezos paid last year for his neighbor’s Indian Creek Island house was no pittance, it was $6 million below the asking price of his neighbor, Leo Kryss. Having seen the news that Bezos had bought the house next door, Kryss asked agents for his broker Douglas Elliman if Bezos was the one trying to buy his house anonymously, according to a lawsuit filed in the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County. 

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