Anwar Zayden


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Anwar Zayden is an actor who appears twice on Miami Vice. In El Viejo he plays the Bolivian drug lord Mendez.

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In Badge of Dishonor he plays the drug dealer Alfredo Morega who gets pulled over by the corrupt cops and shot, body flying into the river.

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Apparently this guy is a very flamboyant character, the type which is plentiful in Miami, for better or for worse.

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The man knows how to make an entrance.

In April 2012, fireworks split open the night sky over Star Island. Below, topless women wiggled by a pool lit the color of blue Kool-Aid. Veiled belly dancers tossed around fire sticks. Camels munched grass around the two-acre property. All through the white tents draped beside the waterfront mansion, Miami's moneybags elite got down.

The occasion was the 50th-birthday party for Thomas Kramer, a wild-man developer whose Portofino Tower stands out like an exclamation point on the South Beach skyline. The theme was "Arabian Nights." Costumed sheiks and bedouins bumped through the party. High-society spinners DJs Blondie and Mad Linx flooded the air with music. The high-priced revelry was already in overdrive when — suddenly — a rider approached. On a horse.

A white purebred Paso Fino clattered toward the front gate, where a row of bouncers controlled access. In the saddle sat a strikingly slab-like man in a leather vest and white tunic, perfect teeth winking out from a mischievous grin. A headscarf dragged like a banner from the rider's head as the animal galloped past the security guys' screamed protests, then pounded into the yard and up through the house's massive two-story entryway.

Horse and rider wove through the elegant house and out to the pool. Cell-phone cameras flashed, capturing the image of this guy — whoever he was — bolting through a $35 million house on horseback.

But partygoers who already knew it screamed his name. "Anwar! Anwar! Anwar!"

Read the rest of the profile here:  https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/anwar-zayden-miami-wildman-and-internet-hero-6395307

He seems to be quite wealthy . . . from running a frame shop???  Mysterious wealth is another Miami hallmark.

http://artexpressmiami.com/

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11 hours ago, airtommy said:

He seems to be quite wealthy . . . from running a frame shop???  Mysterious wealth is another Miami hallmark.

you can make lot of cash with art bussinesses if you have the good eye. plus i saw a documentary once about how rich people houses interiors were decorated. sometimes there's just no limit. in the documentaryi saw they were showing a seat (just one) ordered to a french artist for an apartment in NY, the thing cost 125k E. just for one seat

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2 hours ago, jpm1 said:

you can make lot of cash with art bussinesses if you have the good eye. plus i saw a documentary once about how rich people houses interiors were decorated. sometimes there's just no limit. in the documentaryi saw they were showing a seat (just one) ordered to a french artist for an apartment in NY, the thing cost 125k E. just for one seat

But he's not an art dealer, just frames.

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2 hours ago, jpm1 said:

in the article they say he was dealing a painting once. they also talk of interior decorating. i believe his business has evolved somehow

OK, that would explain it

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