Interesting family. I'd never heard of them. They're connected to some legendary south Florida land marks; The Fontainbleau, Aventura Mall, Turnberry Isle; Kinda cool.
And the Miami Herald has learned that
prominent South Florida real estate developer Jeffrey Soffer and his philanthropic family are the likely lead donor.
Soffer, who is married to model Elle Macpherson, and his family own majority interest in the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, among many other properties, and large percentage of Aventura Mall.
Forbes reported last year that Soffer had joined the billionaire ranks “thanks to his hefty stake in Turnberry Associates, the real estate development company founded by his father, Donald.”
Soffer is listed as the company’s co-CEO with his sister Jackie.
According to a 2015
profile in Ocean Drive magazine, Donald Soffer moved the family from Pittsburgh to South Florida when Jeffrey Soffer was 2 years old “and turned 785 acres of swampland into what is today Aventura, by building the Aventura Mall, Turnberry Isle, and a slew of luxury condos…. In the meantime, he travels the world with his supermodel wife on a plane he often flies, conducting business from his iPhone, and carrying on a Soffer tradition of reshaping Miami. ”