Al Capone’s luxurious Miami mansion on sale for $8.5 million

IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-6f38444ca4fed8f8731b944979951614.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Al Capone’s luxurious Miami mansion on sale for $8.5 million” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-6f38444ca4fed8f8731b944979951614.jpg” (ANSA) – New York, February 11 – The Miami villa of notorious Chicago gangster Al Capone is on the market for $8.5 million. Capone bought the sprawling, 1,000-square-meter waterfront compound in 1928 for $40,000. He died there in 1947, after being released from Alcatraz. PThe baby blue mansion sits on exclusive Palm Island, sandwiched in Biscayne Bay between downtown Miami’s skyscrapers and South Beach’s hotel district./PPIt remained in the gangster’s family until the 1970s. The current owner, a Florida company managed by New York accountant Anthony Panebianco, purchased it six months ago./PIMG id=mediaViewer title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-trasp39.gif”ALL RIGHTS RESERVED