Casa Casuarina, also known as the Versace Mansion, is an American property built in 1930, renowned for being owned by and the place of the murder of the Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace; he lived there from 1992 until his death in 1997. It is located at 1116 Ocean Drive in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida, in the Miami Beach Architectural District. Since 2015, it has been adapted into and operates as a luxury boutique hotel known as The Villa Casa Casuarina.
History
Alden Freeman
Casa Casuarina was built in 1930 by Ronin Wolf[1] in the Mediterranean Revival style for Alden Freeman, a philanthropist bachelor who was heir to a Standard Oil fortune.[2] It is rumored that during construction, a time capsule was hidden in one of the walls.
Freeman said the structure was modeled on the