Indian Creek Island

In 1929, the private Indian Creek Country Club was founded, centered on an 18-hole golf course and clubhouse, and it occupies the vast majority of the island’s land. The club is invitation-only, and owning property on the island does not make someone a member.⁠[1][1][1][1]

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, a group of Midwestern millionaires began developing the muck-covered island into an exclusive residential enclave.⁠[2]

In May 1939, the island was incorporated as the municipality of Indian Creek Village, one of the incorporated municipalities of Miami-Dade County.⁠[3][2]

As of 2017, the island had 41 platted waterfront residential home sites owned by 36 property owners, with 29 estate homes; there were no municipal owned lands or publicly dedicated rights-of-way on the island.⁠[2][2]

In 2020, Tom BradyTom BradyTom Brady is an American retired football quarterback, sports broadcaster and investor. He played for the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, winning seven Super Bowls across twenty-three NFL seasons. His subsequent work includes sports broadcasting, team ownership and sports-related business ventures.Open the full entry and his then-wife, supermodel Gisele Bündchen, bought a house on the island for $17 million.⁠[2]

Jeff Bezos began buying on the island in 2023: he paid $68 million for his first property in 2023, later bought the roughly 19,000-square-foot home next door for $79 million, and added a third property in 2024 for $87 million, for a combined total of about $234 million. As of August 2026, Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, were still not members of Indian Creek Country Club.⁠[1][1][1][4][1]

The island lies in northeastern Miami-Dade County and covers about 0.46 square miles; according to the U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer, it has 0.428 square miles of land and 0.04 square miles of water. The island consists of waterfront estates and Indian Creek Country Club, is connected to the Town of Surfside only by a 60-foot-wide bridge, and its only road is a 1.6-mile private two-lane roadway.⁠[5][5][6][2]

Indian Creek Village is a primarily residential incorporated municipality governed by a mayor and village council, with its own administrative services and public safety operations; as of October 2026, the mayor was Bernard Klepach. The village police department is responsible for protecting the island’s residents, visitors, and infrastructure while preserving the community’s privacy.⁠[7][7][7][8][5]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg paid $170 million for an unfinished estate on the island; Jared KushnerJared KushnerJared Kushner (Jared Corey Kushner) is an American businessman, investor and political figure, and the founder and chief executive officer of the private investment firm Affinity Partners. He ran his family’s real estate business, Kushner Companies, and bought The New York Observer; from 2017 to 2021 he was a senior adviser in the White House to his father-in-law, Donald Trump, and helped bring about the Abraham Accords. From 2025 he took part in Gaza ceasefire negotiations as an unpaid volunteer, and in February 2026 Trump announced him as an envoy of peace. Potential conflicts of interest between his Gulf sovereign-wealth-fund backing and his diplomatic role have been investigated by congressional Democrats and the media; he and the White House deny them.Open the full entry and Ivanka TrumpIvanka TrumpIvanka Trump is an American businesswoman. She served as executive vice president of development and acquisitions at the Trump Organization and founded an eponymous fashion brand, and during Donald Trump’s first presidential term she was an unpaid White House adviser to the president, focusing on issues such as women’s economic empowerment, job training, paid parental leave, and combating human trafficking. After the first term ended, she turned to entrepreneurship and investing.Open the full entry bought land on the island and later expanded their holdings. As of August 2026, Zuckerberg and the Kushners likewise had not been admitted to Indian Creek Country Club.⁠[1][1][1]

Indian Creek Village: Official website: https://www.indiancreekvillagefl.gov/ (opens in a new window).⁠[9]