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Anwar Zayden has spent four decades building a legend that Miami itself can’t quite top.

VICE went inside the oceanfront mansion of Anwar Zayden, the interior decorator and nightlife fixture known around South Florida as “Miami’s Most Legendary Playboy.” Now approaching 60, Zayden built his reputation as a “framer to the stars,” decorating homes for Gianni Versace, Sylvester Stallone and the Bee Gees, while collecting photos with the likes of Rod Stewart and the Hilton sisters along the way. The documentary crew joined him for a tour of his crimson-and-gold bedroom, an underground pool, and one of his regular yacht outings, trying to answer one question: is Anwar Zayden really the most Miami man in Miami?

• Zayden claims a past as a Calvin Klein underwear model and says he appeared on the 1980s series “Miami Vice” before building his career as an interior designer.
• His client list as a decorator reportedly included Gianni Versace, Sylvester Stallone and the Bee Gees, and he’s photographed with celebrities such as Rod Stewart and the Hilton sisters.
• His mansion features a jacuzzi built for ten people, shower fixtures designed for multiple women at once, a safe for personal photos, and an underground pool ringed by palm trees plus a dedicated lobster tank.

From Calvin Klein to “Framer to the Stars”

Zayden’s origin story reads like a Miami fever dream: a stint as one of Calvin Klein’s early underwear models, a brief appearance on “Miami Vice” during the show’s 1980s heyday, and then a pivot into interior design that turned him into a go-to decorator for the city’s wealthiest residents. According to Zayden, that client list grew to include Gianni Versace, Sylvester Stallone and the Bee Gees — names that helped cement his standing as a fixture of Miami’s high-end social circuit rather than just another nightlife personality.

The photos scattered around his home tell the rest of the story, with Zayden posed alongside Rod Stewart and the Hilton sisters among others. It’s the kind of curated wall of proof that comes up again and again in profiles of self-made Miami socialites, and Zayden leans into it as evidence of a career built on access as much as design work.

Inside the Mansion

The VICE tour of Zayden’s oceanfront property is less a home walkthrough than a monument to the persona he’s cultivated. His bedroom is done in crimson bedding and gold-framed mirrors, with a safe built specifically to store personal photographs. The en-suite jacuzzi is sized for ten people, and the shower fixtures are, by his own design, built to accommodate multiple women at once.

Outside, the property holds an underground swimming pool surrounded by palm trees and a dedicated lobster tank — details that put Zayden’s home in the same conversation as some of the more outlandish mansion tours the internet has fixated on, in the vein of Beverly Hills mega-mansions built as much for spectacle as for living. The yacht outings follow the same formula, with Zayden regularly surrounded by young women during trips that mirror the kind of excess seen on high-end superyacht tours more broadly.

The Playboy Arrangement, in His Own Words

Zayden doesn’t dodge the obvious question about a man nearing 60 surrounded almost exclusively by much younger women. He frames it as a transaction both sides understand and accept — he provides financial security, they provide their youth.

Who’s using who?

It’s a blunt answer, and one Zayden repeats without apparent embarrassment, treating the arrangement as simply the terms of doing business in Miami’s playboy economy rather than something that needs defending.

Staying in Shape and Staying “Miami”

Part of Zayden’s pitch is physical: he says he maintains his stamina through boxing, rodeo riding, extreme diving, motocross and Muay Thai, a hobby list that reads more like a stunt reel than a retiree’s routine. It’s all in service of the identity he’s spent decades building, one he sums up without hesitation when asked where he’s from.

“Sometimes people ask me if I am from Miami,” Zayden says, “and I always answer the same question: I am Miami.” Whether or not viewers buy the title, the mansion, the yacht and the client list are the receipts he’s built a career on — and by his own account, he’s not slowing down to prove otherwise.