Billionaire Scripps Heir Sam Logan Unlocks Door to $22 Million Miami Island Fortress Where He Finally Found Safety After Multiple Robberies

As a star of MTV’s “Siesta Key” and descendant of one of America’s wealthiest families, Sam Logan has found himself and his homes repeatedly being targeted by brazen thieves.

So he feels especially fortunate to have moved into a fortified luxury mansion on a private island in Miami, where he has finally managed to find a true feeling of safety.

Logan, who is an heir to the Scripps media empire, bought and moved into the $22.1 million, 10,115-square-foot waterfront residence on Belle Meade Island in November 2025. 

The 34-year-old serial entrepreneur has owned a handful of properties in Florida over the years, including one in Tampa he still possesses, but admits he needed a financial assist from his family to make the Belle Meade Island purchase.

“I could not afford a $22 million home on my own,” says Logan, before describing how his family came into their generational wealth and how he’s learned his way around the negotiating table by being part of its storied lineage.

“My dad was successful in construction, my mom is a Scripps heir, I’m a Scripps heir,” he explains. “My great, great grandfather started the penny press. We were the first people to bring the news to people who couldn’t afford the newspaper back then, so we kind of controlled information to the masses.

“We currently have 63 ABC stations,” he adds. “We did HGTV, stuff like that, so I’ve always grown up going to my family meetings and seeing big business moves.”

Logan’s business savvy came into play while brokering the deal for the Belle Meade Island abode. Not only did he snag the seven-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom manse with an eight-car garage for himself and his new fiancee, Katie Canham, he also landed a new job. 

After acquiring his real estate license, Logan was officially hired by the home’s developer, Michael Nouri, to help promote and sell other estates in the area that were built by the Nouri Group.

“It’s almost like when you purchase a car, you go to the dealership,” expounds Logan. “Right when you pull onto Belle Meade Island, this is the first home, so they could say, ‘You can come look at my work,’ and then me and my gorgeous fiancee open the door and show the finishes and all that.

“I also have my social media, which is pretty loud, so that was where he saw my role,” he adds about his online profile serving as a marketing tool to attract luxury homebuyers.

Indeed, Logan leans into his opulent lifestyle on social media. His Instagram feed is littered with photos of the private jets, luxury vehicles, exotic locales, and designer clothes he’s always had access to, but became more comfortable sharing publicly during his three seasons as a cast member on the MTV reality TV series “Siesta Key.”

“I got my college degree at University of Central Florida and the whole time they wanted me to film that show and I wouldn’t do it,” he reveals.

“Then I ended up hooking up with the girl who was, like, the quote unquote star of the show and then [I started] dating her and I felt obligated to do a scene to help her out, so then [I] filmed that for a couple years.”

Unfortunately, Logan’s flashy ways on TV and online caught the attention of criminals, and he revealed to Realtor.com® that he was “robbed 13 different times” at various personal homes over the past two and a half years.

“Five of the times, I didn’t see the person, but they were pistol-whipping people downstairs, there were people in my house with guns,” he shares.

“One of the times I wasn’t there but it was on the cameras and when the police were running back the footage, they’re like, ‘Oh, this guy was in here two nights ago, too.’”

He went on to say that there’s been “six, seven instances where people are screaming” and three additional incidents when a car was stolen, yet, perhaps the most dangerous occasion occurred when armed masked intruders made their way inside while Logan was preparing a midnight snack.

“One of the times, I was going to get food [at] like, 2:00 a.m, my little dog Tofu‘s following me, and I’m just, like, in my hoodie, making my food and someone’s coming down the hallway with literally a mask on and a machine gun, actually two people, and they hear me and they run into the room and hide. I have no idea that they’re in the house and, like, [I] cook my food, go back upstairs, and they left.”

Those terrifying experiences were top of mind when Logan set out house hunting for his latest domain, and it was the security features the Nouri Group had put in place at the Belle Meade Island dwelling that ultimately sealed the deal.

“Just the safety aspect, we have the best alarm systems,” says Logan. “Michael has a ton of employees and I’ve got full-time security, which is great. He wants that for the island, you know, everything about it to just be [lowering] your stress levels and relaxing.”

Nowhere in the newly built house is Logan more relaxed than the wellness-focused gym, and in particular, inside its Turkish-inspired steam room known as a hammam. In this edition of Celebrity Sanctuary, Logan expands upon all his home’s design details that provide him with a truly priceless sense of peace and personal protection.

Modern would be the best way to word it, but it’s warm, too. It’s like the homiest modern house that I’ve ever been in.

It’s extremely earthy and clean and like a natural-flowing sanctuary. The water is, like, the triple-distilled oasis water. It’s a double osmosis filter. Then there’s this proprietary technology for the air filters, so it’s the cleanest air.

This house was kind of inspired by Turkey. The travertine [is] from Turkey. It’s got this glass drawbridge, which is see-through and representative of some bridge in Turkey. I’ve only been there for a wedding, but I just think it’s super cool that it kind of feels like you’re traveling through a different time or a different place when you walk in here.

It does feel like a sanctuary, like a disconnect, from Florida.

Everyone’s taken away by the entrance, the symmetry and the attention to detail. There’s this crazy, detailed sculpture as you walk up into the house. Even all the landscaping matches it.

There’s a round thing that the sculpture is on, so there’s then these round plants with the pointy part that matches the exact dimensions of the sculpture, and it just looks so well-picked, put together, and symmetrical.

When you walk in, it’s so spacious. It’s 24-foot ceilings from the front door all the way to the back wall and that’s not typical because of building code in Miami. They actually just changed it. This is the last house that will be built this way.

You can’t just have a ton of square footage on the bottom and then a little bit up top, which is what allows us to have the 24-foot ceilings all the way through. Usually you have to have more square footage up top and less at the bottom for the ratio, so this is the last one like this.

The ceilings, it’s just so roomy, and [regarding] the safety thing, when you come through my front door, someone would have to go from [the] bridge all the way over to my master. It’s a long way to be exposed. There’s no hiding around. It’s the most open home I’ve ever been in.

The interior aesthetic that my fiancee and I have adopted would be earthy tones and modern elements of earthy tones. There’s a lot of matte [finishes]. The travertine isn’t shiny, it’s more of a matte.

We added the shine to it [with] some of my artwork, which would be the Marco Grassi [pieces]. He paints with real gold flakes and so we got two of those and two more coming as well. That’s the loud, the bright, and the shininess that we’re adding to [the home] that kind of makes it ours.

My grandpa was an artist as well and we have a warehouse with 2,000 pieces of art in there. My mom is actually bringing down some of those, so we’ll be adding that as well, but we’re still in the process.

We’re adding another row to the theater and we’ll definitely make some other little tweaks.

Another cool thing we’re doing, at my house in Tampa, my fiancee has a glam room. We’re doing a hidden door in the closet [here] that’s going to open up to [what is] currently a guest bedroom, but it’s going to open up to a pink princess lounge-type thing.

The pink room will be a big undertaking. We’ll probably wait till we’re out of town for that one.

I try to be cognizant of Katie, like, not wanting to be bothering her all the time if I’m filming or doing this or that. The house is spacious, so that’s nice, [and] it’s large enough that she can be up in the master, and we’re kind of out of her hair.

Another thing that I love about this house is that we have the main kitchen and then the chef’s kitchen as well, which is really separated with its own entrance and exit so that the chef can just pop in from a hidden door.

The gym room is more of [a] relaxation, rejuvenation, recovery room, which I feel is the direction a lot of places are going. Instead of the home gym with a bench press and squat rack, people have that, but a lot of people are getting into, like, the hyperbaric chambers and the saunas. We’ve got the sauna, the hammam, and the ice bath.

My house has a hammam in it, which is crazy. I’ve never in my life seen a hammam in a home. I didn’t even know what one was, but I happened to have just gotten back from a wedding in Turkey.

A hammam is a room for the baths that you take in Turkey. They scrub your skin and it stimulates your lymphatic system, and it’s also symbolic of washing off your body mentally and spiritually, like, washing off all the negativity. It’s as much of a cleanliness ritual as it is a holistic, spiritual-type ritual as well, so it’s pretty cool.

It’s [made with] Rosa Perlino, [which] is a pink marble that comes from Turkey. There’s pink quartz from the Denizli region of Turkey and then there’s blue tempest from Brazil.

With the ice bath outside, it was just an ice bath sitting there, but they put wood around it and are putting the bushy stuff on it to make it look like it’s a piece of nature. Everything flows seamlessly together, like a piece of the home as opposed to an object that you put there.

The gym room, the rest and rejuvenation room with the hammam, [is for] decompressing and [lowering] your cortisol.

My fiancee put red light therapy in there as well, and her little scrub brushes and all that type of stuff. We got a vibration plate you squat on, and that’s good for your lymphatic system. Personalized towels she got as well. She just loves everything about this house.

A typical day in my gym sanctuary would be returning from tennis, going in the sauna or the hammam, and relaxing, decompressing, stretching in there, and then get out, go in the cold plunge, then directly into the pool, and lay in the sun for 20 minutes. That’s, like, a great way to end the fitness part of the day.

I’m definitely very happy. It’s the happiest I’ve been moving into a home for sure.