Shaquille O’Neal finally scores a buyer for Florida mansion

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Quitting is for losers, right?

After more than 3 years connected the market, a pending sale successful aboriginal 2021 that fell through, 5 antithetic income agents and a redesign to sweeten its look for different buyer, NBA fable Shaquille O’Neal has yet sold his Orlando-area mansion, the listing brokerage told The Post.

O'Neal's monolithic 31,000-plus-square-foot dispersed archetypal deed the marketplace for $28 cardinal successful 2018.

Originally asking $28 cardinal successful 2018, the database terms for the property, located astatine 9927 Griffin Court successful the municipality of Windermere, Fla., yet lowered to $16.5 cardinal erstwhile it returned for merchantability this past March, arsenic The Post reported astatine the time.

Now, however, the 31,000-plus-square-foot has traded hands for an undisclosed price. The listing brokerage declined to uncover the sum oregon remark connected it. The deal, and its price, besides has yet to look successful Orange County nationalist records, and tin instrumentality up to six weeks to bash so, an authoritative told The Post.

Over-the-top features see an indoor hoops court.

O’Neal purchased this location for $3.95 cardinal successful 1993, and successful aboriginal years expanded and customized its footprint.

O’Neal, who hails from Newark, N.J., made a splash successful 2018 erstwhile listing images of the 12-bedroom location went public. The maestro bedroom, for starters, came with a round, built-in bedframe measuring nary less than 15 feet crossed covered with furniture linens that showed a Superman logo — Superman being 1 of O’Neal’s nicknames. There was besides a built-into-the-wall food vessel surrounded by a mural of O’Neal driving a reddish truck. The eat-in room adjacent had cabinets and the land painted successful a distressed-looking pastel yellow.

In 2021, the location underwent a cosmetic redesign -- with enactment including a caller seashore of overgarment and a caller furniture successful the maestro suite.

In its 2021 redesign, listing images showcase a maestro chamber with a regular-shaped bed, with the abstraction itself recently painted achromatic for elemental viewing. The food vessel was removed from the wall, though the mural remained. The kitchen, similar the maestro bedroom, got a overgarment of achromatic paint.

Beyond paint, the cosmetic upgrades besides included caller landscaping.

The mansion fits a two-story large country with a fireplace and oversize windows.

The spot sits connected astir 4 acres looking retired to Lake Butler and successful the gated Isleworth play community. Inside, the caller proprietor — whose individuality is besides chartless — volition person a astir 1,200-square-foot, two-story large country with a marble fireplace and oversize windows. A ceremonial eating country tin acceptable 16 and comes with wood paneling and moldings. Elsewhere, there’s a sound-proof location theatre with a ample surface for viewings, temperature-controlled retention for vino and cigars, a showroom-style store with abstraction for 17 cars and, this being Shaq, a 6,000-square-foot indoor hoops court.

There's a lakeside excavation for outdoor entertaining.

Outside, there’s a 95-foot-long excavation that’s 15 feet heavy — the second of which is much than doubly Shaq’s 7-foot-1 height. There’s besides a blistery tub, an outdoor kitchen, a Tiki-style cabana and 700 feet of lakefront.

Benjamin Hillman, of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty’s Southwest Orlando office, represented the listing.