EGN NEWS DESK
Patrick Carroll — a once-obscure businessman who appeared to purchase his means into the higher reaches of the social elite in a matter of months, solely to shortly crash again out — is being investigated by police after gunshots have been heard close to his ultra-luxury Miami Beach house.
Carroll’s free-spending methods received him an incredibly straightforward embrace from the gatekeepers to the worlds of Hollywood, philanthropy and style — and he has been talked about in the identical breath as Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Ford and UNICEF in recent times.
But his crude method and unstable tendencies have typically seen him ousted and ostracized simply as shortly.
In the identical interval, he has aggressively sought fame, showing repeatedly on CNBC as a enterprise knowledgeable, holding press-friendly “giveaway” occasions for deprived youngsters and gaining over one million Instagram followers.
Now, Page Six hears that police descended on Carroll’s $16.4 million mansion Thursday to research studies of gunshots outdoors his house.
Meanwhile, {a photograph} has emerged exhibiting him brandishing what seems to be an assault rifle on his yacht.
“I can verify that legislation enforcement personnel responded to 810 Lakeview Drive concerning allegations of potential gunshots heard within the space,” Christopher Bess of the City of Miami Beach Police Department informed Page Six. “MBPD carried out a preliminary investigation which yielded no sufferer or scene. This incident was routed to our Criminal Investigations Division for a extra thorough evaluation.”
A rep for Carroll couldn’t attain him. But a supply near the state of affairs informed us: “We need him to know that folks care about him and wish him to get assist.”
In 2004, he based the Carroll Org, which owns 81 rental properties throughout the Sun Belt, in accordance with BisNow.
He signed a deal final July to promote the corporate to RMR Group for $80 million, after “incidents in his non-public life have bubbled to the floor across the time he seemed to promote his agency,” the positioning reported.
The story hyperlinks to a report that Carroll punched his ex-wife within the face, amongst different infractions. (At the time, he responded by saying, “Most of this s–t is full lies.”)
Carroll first emerged on Page Six’s radar in the summertime of 2022, when he climbed onstage at a charity occasion attended by DiCaprio, mannequin Gigi Hadid, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and now-disgraced tech scammer Sam Bankman-Fried at New York non-public membership Casa Cipriani to donate $1.5 million to the trigger.
A couple of months later, he was booted from an ultra-exclusive warm-up occasion for the UNICEF gala on Capri — thrown by New York nightlife gurus Richie Akiva and Darren Dzienciol and attended as soon as once more by the “The Wolf of Wall Street” star, in addition to Jamie Foxx and diverse billionaires — after getting right into a face-off with safety.
At the gala itself, we reported on the time that he “was fêted as the best donor for dropping $2 million through the public sale on a classic automobile and a ‘Top Gun’ Experience.” (He later declined to ship the cost for the public sale purchases.)
Around that point, Carroll was in a long-term relationship with mannequin Alina Baikova.
He was lately engaged to a different girl, however we’re informed that relationship has fallen aside in the previous few days. Carroll is divorced, and has a long-running custody dispute together with his former spouse.
Carroll caught our consideration as soon as once more when he attended the Milan Fashion Week present of Tom Ford as a visitor of the ultra-high-end style home — solely to attract the livid ire of biz insiders days later by returning the greater than $10,000 price of the very purchases that helped to earn him the uncommon honor of the corporate flying him to Italy and internet hosting him for the occasion. (Carroll claimed on the time that he had solely tried to return a number of the gadgets, and that he has spent giant sums at Tom Ford previously.)
He was additionally banned from numerous Miami’s most trendy eating places, together with the super-sceney Carbone, after he appeared to spit on a bunch at a special restaurant after the staffer requested him to cease hitting on a girl who was at a sublime sushi restaurant on a date with another person. (A rep on the time mentioned Carroll had merely mimed spitting on the host.)
Carroll has gained a big social media following by exhibiting off the extra palatable points of his globetrotting life-style, which regularly entails engaging ladies and firearms — in a way much like Instagram phenomenon Dan Bilzerian.
But currently, Carroll’s on-line antics appear to have tipped over from outrageous to disturbing.
He lately posted a video of himself berating feminine dinner companions at hip restaurant Prime 112 who had informed him that they have been frightened as a result of he was taking part in with a pointy knife on the dinner desk.
Perhaps most bizarrely of all, amid his arms-laden spree, Carroll hosted a sneaker giveaway — one in a sequence of occasions which have received him publicity in shops together with People — for youths from the Boys and Girls Club of San Diego, the place he was snapped taking part in video games with the youngsters. (The Boys and Girls Club of San Diego didn’t instantly reply to our request for remark.)
