Rosie O'Donnell's mansion at 43 Star Island in Miami Beach is for sale for $19.5 million -- up nearly 300% from the $6.75 million she paid in 1999.
In 1975, the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church -- featured in the rakontur popdoc Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja -- paid $270,000 for the island property. Parishioners used the house (a different, long-ago demolished structure from O'Donnell's luxurious manse) as an "American embassy" for the Jamaica-based sect. Much to the chagrin of their neighbors, the Coptics and their children would chant and smoke ganja (aka marijuana, their sacrament to God) all day and night.
Square Grouper - The Zion Coptic Mansion on Star Island from rakontur on Vimeo.