05/01/2026
Scar Face Mansion For Sale!
The glass elevator from one of cinema's most iconic scenes — still works, and now it's for sale...
The waterfront estate in Key Biscayne, Florida, that served as the home of fictional drug lord Frank Lopez in the 1983 film Scarface has been listed for $237 million — a price that, if met, would be the most expensive sale in Miami-Dade County history, eclipsing the $170 million paid by Mark Zuckerberg for a mansion earlier this year.
Built around 1981 by Roberto Striedinger, a pilot later convicted of co***ne trafficking for the Medellín Cartel, the property was used in 1983 as the filming location for Frank Lopez's residence — the rival drug lord played by Robert Loggia whose girlfriend, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, descends a glass elevator in one of the film's most memorable scenes. That elevator is still in the home today.
Before Scarface, the compound had a very different kind of famous guest. The estate's helipad was originally built to accommodate President Richard Nixon, who used a nearby bungalow on the compound as part of his Florida "Winter White House" during his presidency from 1969 to 1974. Nixon's bungalow was later demolished, but the helipad remains and now functions as a private marina.
The roughly 13,000-square-foot house sits on 2.38 acres with 862 feet of water frontage. Current owner John Devaney, who bought the property around 2003 for roughly $30 million, says he decided to sell because Miami's trophy market is booming and his three children are grown. He put it simply to the New York Post: "Let someone else take a turn."
The property features 24-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, five bedrooms, a piano-shaped pool, a boat dock, a helipad, a music studio, and a game room. There are homes for sale, and then there are properties that carry decades of history in every corner. This one has Nixon, the Medellín Cartel, Michelle Pfeiffer, and a glass elevator that refuses to retire.
