Jeff Bezos Indian Creek Miami: Bezos bought three properties on Indian Creek Island, but he still is outside Indian Creek Country Club membership. Lauren Sanchez Bezos is outside the club too. The gap between ownership and admission stayed open six months after the couple appeared at the club's annual dock party in February.
Bezos paid $234 million for the three properties, including $68 million for one in 2023, $79 million for a roughly 19,000-square-foot home next door and $87 million for a third property in 2024. That spending placed him among the island's most visible owners, but property ownership alone does not put anyone on the club's rolls.
Indian Creek Country Club membership
Indian Creek Country Club was founded in 1929 and sits around an 18-hole golf course, clubhouse and other private amenities. The club has roughly 350 members and has long drawn doctors, attorneys, financiers, real-estate developers, entrepreneurs and other prominent South Florida figures.
People connected to the club said the initiation fee is close to $1 million and annual dues are about $44,000. Applicants need sponsorship from two existing members and letters of recommendation from five others before a six-person membership committee considers them, then a 15-member board votes.
February dock party
In February, Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos attended the club's annual dock party as special guests. Bezos mingled with members there, including Richard LeFrak and Eddie Lampert, and people who attended said he was using the gathering to meet members and improve his prospects of being admitted.
That visit did not end the process. Six months later, Bezos was still not a member, even after buying three properties on Indian Creek Island and attending the club event where members gathered around the dock.
Indian Creek Village rules
Indian Creek Village is separate from Indian Creek Country Club, even though both sit on Indian Creek Island. The village is an incorporated municipality on a roughly 300-acre island accessible by gated bridge or boat, while the vast majority of the island's land belongs to the country club.
The membership path now runs through sponsorship, recommendations, committee review and a board vote. For Bezos and Sanchez Bezos, the question is not how much property they own on Indian Creek Island, but whether the club's gatekeepers advance them through that process.
