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Inside Candice Miller’s new life and friends in Miami

Mommy blogger Candice Miller’s seemingly perfect life was shockingly turned upside down by her husband’s suicide last summer — but she has found a new safe haven near the ocean, sources tell The Post.

The mother of two girls has settled in Miami Beach, Florida, and sources told The Post that she is finding ways to cope and move on from the death of Brandon Miller after the real estate mogul racked up $33.6 million in debt and leaving her with just $8,000 left in her bank account.

“She’s doing strangely well,” said a Miami socialite who moves in the same circles as Candice. The socialite told The Post she saw her at a fitness class recently and didn’t think anything was wrong. “She’s at parties, events and dinners. She’s not sitting at home dressed all in black with no lights on or anything,” she added.

Brandon and Candice Miller seemed to be living a good life before Brandon committed suicide over the summer.
The Millers’ home in the Hamptons recently sold for $12.8 million.

“The word from Miami is that she’s on the move,” a former New York acquaintance of Candice’s told the Post.

Candice’s lawyers have argued that her name was never on the lease.

Brandon and Candice Miller’s lives were made available to the public through their Instagram account Mama & Tata, which Candice ran with her sister. It showed Candice and Brandon living the good life in the Hamptons, cruising around in vintage cars, taking to the sea aboard multi-million dollar yachts and flying privately. “An insider’s guide to what every mom in NYC needs,” she called it.

But on the July 4th holiday weekend in 2024, everything came crashing down. Candice was on Italy’s Amalfi Coast with the couple’s two daughters, while Brandon, home alone in the Hamptons, was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his white Porsche by emergency responders.

It was only in hindsight that Brandon’s enormous debts and legal troubles came to light, revealing that her fancy life was largely a fabrication, a cautionary tale exaggerated by social media.

Although she had polished style, as seen on her now-deleted social media accounts, some in high society tend to peg the Millers as contenders trying to carve out a place among New York’s ultra-elite .

Candice Miller had a blog that emphasized a posh lifestyle.
After her husband’s death, Candice Miller lives in a borrowed $10 million apartment on Continuum in South Beach.

“What I know about her,” one member of that world told The Post, “is that she traveled around with a photographer. “She loved to splash around with her money.”

In the suicide note he left behind, Brandon made it clear that Candice would receive $15 million via life insurance. According to the New York Times, that money has landed.

Regardless, she’s starting over outside of New York and living a life worthy of the glamor that’s at the center of “Mama & Tata” – even if it’s a bit borrowed for the moment.

First of all, Candice and her children live in a 2,800 square foot apartment in Continuum, a luxury building in South Beach. The object is valued at $10 million and belongs to a foundation associated with Alexander von Fürstenberg. It was purchased in 2023.

While von Fürstenberg is an old friend who stood by Candice, there is said to be no shortage of new friends in her current city of residence.

The source there added: “This is Miami. It is a place where there are more than enough people willing to welcome them and bring them into their circle.”

Candice Miller and her two daughters look all dapper at a benefit in Manhattan.
Candice and Brandon Miller seemed to have everything – including the money to afford everything.

Despite the stress of dealing with her husband’s sudden death and all the debt he saddled her with – which Candice has made it clear she knew nothing about – the celebrity source told The Post that Candice holds little resentment over the sudden change the circumstances show.

“She doesn’t shop at Chanel every day,” the socialite said. “But she lives life day by day. She lives in an expensive apartment that was loaned to her by friends. She goes to dinner and places like the Four Seasons Surf Club and Casa Tua, trains and travels.

“Apparently she was out with her kids on Halloween and at a party. Obviously everything has changed. But from what we see, it doesn’t feel like anything has changed. She doesn’t particularly hold back. That’s for sure.”

As for the life in the Hamptons that made Candice famous, that appears to have been done away with. The seven-bedroom mansion she and Brandon owned on Water Mill Lane sold for $12.8 million. She also faces a lawsuit over $194,881.89 in unpaid rent on the couple’s former Park Avenue apartment in New York City.

Candice and Brandon Miller were in their element and attended a party for Hamptons Magazine.

Even though Brandon committed suicide in the Hamptons home, there were still several offers. Still, a source told the Post, “The house probably would have sold for more, but the bank wanted out,” so a quick sale was desirable.

Apparently the buyer received the apartment fully furnished and full of household items, which the new buyer did not want. About 200 items from the house were auctioned off last week at an estate sale by Privet Estate Sales, a Hamptons-based company that specializes in such things.

Despite previous reports that Candice sold everything in the home, Kristen Hanyo, the owner of Privet Estate Sales, tells a slightly different story. “I don’t work for Candice Miller,” she said. “It was no longer their property. I wasn’t hired by her.”

When asked who hired her, Hanyo replied, “The buyer” of the house.

Candice Miller is supposed to pick up the pieces by “living the life” in Miami.

Items ranged from the everyday (a pair of cake pans for $6.00) to the sophisticated (a linen sofa with a hammer price of $5,500) to the personal (a set of high-end golf clubs believed to have belonged to Brandon). .

Meanwhile, in New York City’s social world, people are still trying to figure out how things went so terribly wrong for a couple who seemed to have it all.

“People think they can build a lifestyle like that and do whatever it takes to maintain it,” said a source in Manhattan’s big money scene. The Manhattan source blamed the lure of acceptance on social media, the flaunting of your wealth and everything that comes with it, adding: “But for almost everyone in the world, that’s untenable.”

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