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She is one of California's longest-serving congresswomen - and one of the richest - but Nancy Pelosi could be planning to ditch the Golden State for retirement in Florida, DailyMail.com can reveal. Sources have told DailyMail.com Pelosi, 81, and husband Paul are splashing out $25m on a palatial six-bedroom mansion in Hobe Sound, Florida. The stunning classical-style mansion boasts nine bathrooms, a 255ft private beach and a colonnaded courtyard. Photos show the cream-painted property also has a kitchen finished with marble counter tops, a private cinema, gym and swimming pool, and sits in 2.5 acres of landscaped grounds. Neighbors in...

Golf superstar Tiger Woods has agreed to pay around $40 million for a 10-acre oceanfront estate in exclusive Jupiter Island, Florida. It’s a record sale for the enclave Forbes magazine calls America’s "Most Expensive ZIP Code,” the Palm Beach Post reports. But the top-earning athlete in the U.S. – who raked in $89.4 million last year – plans to tear down the 13-year-old main house and build a new one, Palm Beach County real estate insiders say. "The main house is in very good condition, but I’d think that someone who paid that much would want to put their own...