A lender is going toe-to-toe with Don King, alleging the Donald Trump loving boxing promoter defaulted on a $5.3 million mortgage.
An affiliate of Miami-based Blueprint Capital Partners filed a foreclosure complaint in Broward County Circuit Court against King and his entity Fairway Enterprises that owns a 46,467-square-foot warehouse at 501 Fairway Drive in Deerfield Beach, court records and real estate database Vizzda show. Blueprint Capital alleges that King stopped making interest-only payments in August.
King did not respond to requests for comment.
“I don’t care if you’re Don King or Mike Tyson, if you don’t pay your obligations, you’re going to get sued,” said David Haber, Blueprint Capital’s attorney. “In this case, they weren’t met and we had to file a foreclosure action.”
Fairway purchased the 4.4-acre industrial property for $3 million in 2000, records show. The building was completed in 1985. Two years ago, the entity obtained a $5.1 million loan from a previous lender that was increased by $200,000 in 2024 and personally guaranteed by King, the complaint states. Also last year, Blueprint Capital acquired the mortgage.
A Boca Raton homeowner, the 93-year-old sports icon is among the 45th and 47th president’s most famous supporters. In a December Instagram post, King declared Trump was “God sent; and people chosen, made the greatest political comeback in the history of America!!” Recently, King posted a selfie photo of himself wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat alongside Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who is leading DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE is charged with dumping federally-owned real estate as part of its nationwide purge of government assets, employees and programs.
Found guilty of second-degree murder in 1967 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, King was released from prison three years later when his conviction was reduced to manslaughter. He rose to boxing prominence promoting and arranging some of the sport’s most famous fights featuring the late Muhammad Ali, considered the greatest boxing champion of all time. King also managed and promoted George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Roy Jones Jr., among other world champs.
A longtime Palm Beach County resident, King owns a former Jai Alai fronton in Mangonia Park that he tried to sell in the mid-2010s to a potential buyer that proposed redeveloping the site into a mixed-use project featuring a sports facility, retail stores, restaurants, a hotel and vocational and charter schools. But the deal fizzled.
