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 he has been mentioned in the same breath as Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Ford and UNICEF in recent years.
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 over a million Instagram followers.
Now, Page Six hears that police descended on Carroll’s $16.4 million mansion Thursday to investigate reports of gunshots outside his home.
Meanwhile, a photograph has emerged showing him brandishing what appears to be an assault rifle on his yacht.
“I can confirm that law enforcement personnel responded to 810 Lakeview Drive 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.”
In 2004, he founded the Carroll Org, which owns 81 rental properties across the Sun Belt, according to BisNow.
He 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 site reported.
The story links to a report that Carroll punched his ex-wife in the face, among other infractions. (At the time, he responded by saying, “Most of this s–t is complete lies.”)
Carroll first emerged on Page Six’s radar in the summer of 2022, when he climbed onstage at a charity event attended by DiCaprio, model Gigi Hadid, New York City 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.
A few 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 “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 that he “was fêted as the highest donor for dropping $2 million during the auction on a vintage car and a ‘Top Gun’ Experience.” (He later declined to send the payment for the auction purchases.)
Around that time, Carroll was in a long-term relationship with 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.
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 the more than $10,000 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 return some of the items, and that he has 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 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 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.)
