Why did David and Jackie Siegel build “Versailles,” the largest house in the US?
The Siegel Family’s Orlando Versailles, an unfinished house that will be the biggest in the U.S., has become a symbol of the economic times. It’s an icon of wild success and flagrant excess, and also of financial turmoil and ruin. It’s a bit of a Pheonix rises from the ashes of an almost foreclosure.
According to Jackie Siegel, things are back on track with the 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by France’s 17th century Palace of Versailles. But why was it even built in the first place?
