Patrick Carroll — a once-obscure businessman who seemed to buy his way into the upper reaches of the social elite in a matter of months, only to quickly crash back out — is being investigated by police after gunshots were heard near his ultra-luxury Miami Beach home.
Carroll’s free-spending ways won him a shockingly easy embrace from the gatekeepers to the worlds of Hollywood, philanthropy and fashion, and in the past couple of years he has been mentioned in the same breath as Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Ford and Unicef. But his crude manner and volatile tendencies have often seen him ousted and ostracized just as quickly.
In the same period, he has aggressively sought fame, appearing regularly on CNBC as a business expert, holding press-friendly “giveaway” events for disadvantaged kids and gaining more than a million Instagram followers.
Now Page Six hears that police descended on Carroll’s $16.4 mansion to investigate reports of gunshots outside his home. Meanwhile, a photograph showed him brandishing what appeared to be an assault rifle on his yacht.
“I can confirm that law enforcement personnel responded to 810 Lakeview Dr. regarding allegations of possible gunshots heard in the area,” Christopher Bess of the City of Miami Beach Police Department told Page Six, “MBPD conducted a preliminary investigation which yielded no victim or scene. This incident was routed to our Criminal Investigations Division for a more thorough assessment.”
A rep for Carroll couldn’t reach him. But a source close to the situation told us: “We want him to know that people care about him and want him to get help.”
He founded the Carroll Org, which owns 81 rental properties across the Sun Belt, around two decades ago, according to BisNow. The site reports that he has signed a deal last July to sell the company to RMR Group for $80 million, after “incidents in his private life have bubbled to the surface around the time he looked to sell his firm.” The story links to a report that Carroll, among other things, punched his ex-wife in the face. (At the time, he responded by saying: “most of this s–t is complete lies.”
Carroll first came onto the Page Six radar in the summer of 2022, when he climbed onstage at a charity event attended by DiCaprio, model Gigi Hadid, Mayor Eric Adams and now-disgraced tech scammer Sam Bankman-Fried at New York private club Casa Cipriani to donate $1.5 million to the cause. Then a couple of months later he was booted from an ultra-exclusive warm-up event for the Unicef gala on Capri — thrown by New York nightlife gurus Richie Akiva and Darren Dzienciol and attended once again by the “Wolf of Wall Street’ star, as well as Jamie Foxx and assorted billionaires — after getting into a face-off with security. At the gala itself, we reported at the time he “was fêted as the highest donor for dropping $2 million during the auction on a vintage car and “Top Gun Experience.” (He later declined to send the payment for the auction purchases).
Around that time, Carroll was in long-term relationship with the model Alina Baikova. He was recently engaged to another woman, but we’re told that relationship has fallen apart in the last few days. Carroll is divorced, and has a long-running custody dispute with his former wife.
Most recently Carroll caught our attention once again when he attended the Milan Fashion Week show of Tom Ford as a guest of the ultra high-end fashion house — only to draw the furious ire of biz insiders days later by returning more than ten thousand dollars worth of the very purchases that helped to earn him the rare honor of the company flying him to Italy and hosting him for the event. (Carroll claimed at the time that he had only tried to returned some of items, and that he spent large sums at Tom Ford in the past).
He was also banned from a number of Miami’s most fashionable restaurants, including the super-sceney Carbone, after he appeared to spit on a host at a different restaurant after the staffer asked him to stop hitting on a woman who was at an elegant sushi restaurant on a date with someone else. (A rep at the time said that Carroll had merely mimed spitting on the host).
Carroll has gained a large social media following by showing off the more palatable aspects of his globetrotting lifestyle, which often involves attractive women and firearms — in a manner similar to the Instagram phenomenon Dan Bilzerian.
But lately Carroll’s online antics seem to have tipped over from outrageous to disturbing.
He recently posted a video of himself berating female dinner companions at hip restaurant Prime 112 who had told him that they were frightened because he was playing with a sharp knife at the dinner table.
Perhaps most bizarrely of all, amid his arms-laden spree, Carroll hosted a sneaker giveaway — one in a series of events that have won him publicity in outlets including People — for kids from the Boys and Girls Club of San Diego, where he was snapped playing games with the children. (The Boys and Girls Club of San Diego didn’t immediately respond to our request for comment).
Source: NewsFinale
