Fisher Island Home of Russian Oligarch Dmitry Zelenov Sells

The widow of Russian oligarch Dmitry Zelenov sold their Fisher Island home to developer Lewis Swezy, The Real Deal has learned.

The Villa Martina Trust sold the six-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bathroom house at 6923 Valencia Drive to Swezy’s 6923 Valencia DR LLC for $14.8 million. Swezy created the entity in January, state records show.

Zelenov was a real estate tycoon who died in 2022, after he got sick during a dinner party in the French Riviera. Zelenov co-founded the construction firm Don-Stroy in the 1990s, which built shopping centers across Russia, as well as the tallest apartment building in Europe at the time, a 61-story skyscraper in Moscow, according to Forbes.

Zelenov was one of more than half a dozen Russian oligarchs who reportedly died under suspicious circumstances in 2022.

Cyril Matz with Douglas Elliman represented the trust that sold the 7,137-square-foot Fisher Island home. Matz declined to comment. Swezy represented himself, according to the listing.

A Fisher Island entity led by Zelenov paid $7.5 million in 2007 for the Fisher Island property, one of a small number of single-family homes on the island. The trust that sold the home to Swezy is managed by attorney Jason Giller. The house was built in 2002.

Giller was also involved in the $21 million purchase of a house on the same street in December.

“Historically the single-family homes [on Fisher Island] didn’t get a lot of attention,” Giller said. That has changed as buyers are increasingly looking for privacy and security, which the ritzy island is known for, he added.
Swezy is president of Miami Lakes-based Centennial Management, a real estate developer, broker and licensed general contractor that owns and manages more than 3,300 residential units and 900,000 square feet of commercial space, according to the company’s website. His firm also owns more than 200 acres in the south Miami-Dade neighborhoods of Naranja and Princeton and the municipality of Florida City.