Key International is going after the Coconut Grove home of developer Caroline Weiss after she allegedly failed to repay an $8 million loan issued in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miami-based Key<\/a>, led by brothers Diego and Inigo Ardid, filed a foreclosure complaint in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court on June 25 against Weiss, two trusts in her name and Schlesinger Law Group, a firm that formerly represented her.\u00a0<\/p>\n Key alleges Weiss failed to repay the $8 million mortgage when it was due in full on Jan. 1. She put up her 1.6-acre waterfront estate, which includes her four-bedroom home at 3187 Royal Road, as collateral. Weiss briefly listed 1.3 acres of land with a boat dock on the property for $59 million<\/a> in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n The lawsuit is the latest in a string of legal battles dogging the octogenarian real estate mogul.\u00a0<\/p>\n Court records in other cases allege Weiss<\/a> is unwell and being taken advantage of by her two adult daughters, Alitza Weiss and Adeena Weiss Ortiz.<\/p>\n Alitza Weiss denied any wrongdoing. \u201cMy mother has been very ill,\u201d she said. \u201cShe has a lot of physical problems. We are taking care of everything.\u201d Adeena Weiss Ortiz did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n Weiss was active in the 1970s and \u201980s especially, building offices and apartments in Miami\u2019s Blue Lagoon neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cEverything will be rectified after tomorrow,\u201d Alitza Weiss said Tuesday. \u201cThere will be no more foreclosures. No more bankruptcies. No more nothing.\u201d She declined to explain the significance of \u201ctomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ardids and Key\u2019s attorney Jose Sepulveda did not respond to requests for comment. Weiss and her lawyer Martin McCarthy did not respond to phone messages and emails.\u00a0<\/p>\n Key\u2019s complaint named Schleslinger Law Group, led by attorney Michael Schleslinger, as a defendant because the firm has a court lien against the property.\u00a0<\/p>\n Schleslinger, who represented Weiss for decades until last year, declined comment. He defended Weiss in lawsuits filed in 2014 and 2022 by Adeena Weiss Ortiz<\/a>, her eldest child, that contested her mother\u2019s sole ownership of a 7-acre assemblage at 4865 Northwest Seventh Street in Blue Lagoon, where Weiss secured rezoning for a major mixed-use project in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n A judge ruled in Weiss\u2019 favor in both cases, and her daughter\u2019s subsequent appeals were denied, court records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n Schleslinger sued Alitza Weiss and Adeena Weiss Ortiz<\/a> in November for tortious interference, fraud and defamation. In his lawsuit, Schleslinger alleges that Caroline was diagnosed with post-anesthetic dementia and diminished capacity after a shoulder surgery. While Weiss was incapacitated, her daughters allegedly \u201cinfused themselves in Caroline\u2019s life and took over her personal and financial affairs,\u201d Schleslinger\u2019s lawsuit says. The siblings allegedly isolated their mother from her friends and lawyers, ultimately firing him and another attorney, John Kirkpatrick.\u00a0<\/p>\n Caroline Weiss filed a legal malpractice lawsuit against Schleslinger last month, alleging he charged her millions of dollars without providing any documentation of the work he performed on her behalf.\u00a0<\/p>\n Court records in another pending lawsuit against Weiss over an unpaid $260,336 home equity line of credit allege that Alitza Weiss, Adeena Weiss Ortiz and Weiss\u2019 new attorney Martin McCarthy are defying a judge\u2019s order to make Caroline Weiss available for a medical evaluation to determine if she needs a guardian ad litem.\u00a0<\/p>\n Alitza Weiss countered that it was Schleslinger who \u201cmanipulated my mother.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cShe was his golden ticket,\u201d Alitza Weiss said in a response to that lawsuit. \u201cHe was wrongful toward her in every way, including making her sign documents while she was in the hospital.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Weiss<\/a> is in danger of losing the 7-acre development site in Blue Lagoon, where she planned 882 apartments and two hotels with a combined 433 rooms. Toronto-based TIG Romspen is seeking to force the bankruptcy sale of the property to satisfy a $20.1 million<\/a> final judgment against two Weiss entities that own the assemblage, court records show. TIG Romspen was awarded final judgment in 2024, a year after the lender filed a foreclosure complaint alleging Weiss failed to repay a bridge loan.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key International is going after the Coconut Grove home of developer Caroline Weiss after she allegedly failed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[137559,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-333449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-caroline-weiss-foreclosure","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}