$48,000,000 | "The Valley Trunk Estate of The Virgin Islands"

Inside a $48 Million British Virgin Islands Estate With 1,000 Feet of Pristine Beachfront. Made for entertaining, with a main house and six separate villas, this 18-acre estate is being sold for the first time in its history. Once the private Caribbean getaway of the fabulously wealthy international art dealer Daniel Wildenstein, Valley Trunk Estate on the island of Virgin Gorda was built as the ultimate family retreat. Perched high among huge granite boulders, the compound features a main house connected to six more villas, each boasting spectacular panoramic views of the sailing mecca that’s the Sir Francis Drake Channel. Wildenstein, who died in 2001, reportedly bought this 18-acre corner of Virgin Gorda back in 1981 after flying over the sparsely-populated island and spotting it below. The compound took around five years to complete. One of the first buildings on the property was the two-story Bali House close to the beach. The Wildenstein family had bought the wood-frame building in Bali, had it dismantled and shipped to Virgin Gorda, where it was reassembled as a cool beach house.Following Wildenstein’s death, his grandchildren Diane and Alec Wildenstein Jr. took over the running of the estate and began renting it out as a super-exclusive escape. Weekly rates were said to be as much as $77,000, with all the profits reportedly going to support the black rhino conservation work being done on the Wildenstein family’s 58,000-acre Ol Jogi ranch in Kenya. Guests at Valley Trunk could enjoy meals prepared by the family’s longtime private French chef, play tennis on the estate’s all-weather court, swim in the infinity-edge pool, exercise in the gym or aboard one of the estate’s paddleboards or kayaks. Or simply splash around in the crystal-clear waters of Big Trunk Bay, named after the indigenous Trunkback turtles that nest on the beach. Guests also had unlimited use of the family’s classic 68-foot Bertram motor yacht, Xanadu, for snorkeling or dining adventures in the anchorages around the serene British Virgin Islands.