this is "nightline." >> tonight, lion attack. the young american tourist malled to death through an open window. our reporter on the scene in south africa. these parks are popular, but do they allow people to get too close? plus, they call her the queen of versailles. the woman on a mission to build her own palace the largest home in the country. tonight, she gives us a tour and tell us what happened when she traded it in for a walk in very different shoes on celebrity wife swap. and he's the guy taking barista art way beyond the smiley face.

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young american woman killed by a lion in a safari park in south africa. the questions tonight, what prompted this dead aattack and why do we continue to try to get so close to these dangerous wild animals. we're on the ground going inside that park. >> like thousands of tourists, katherine was trying to get a glipgs of nature's most majestic creatures. >> she was taking photos. heroin doe was open. >> according to the park, a lion was standing feet away from her car. that's when the close encounter turned deadly. the lion lunging at her through the car window. it's directly through there this attack happened. they moved the lions into the night enclosure. help arrived quickly. but it was all tragically too late. heroin does were down despite signs advising against it. the lion is now caged and the

park remains open to visitors today. >> she could have been mating. that could have made her and the male aggressive. but, you know anything could have been a possibility. >> whatever happened to prompt the lion's aggression, park rule of no open windows is in place for a reason. >> you can never take that wild out of the animal. whatever you do that animal still stays a wild animal and we need to respect that. >> here lions are not in cages, they're in open spaces. we took a tour of the park to see the lions up close for ourselves. so we're just approaching the lion camp where this attack happened. by the time you reach here you've already been told quite a few times to keep your doors locked and a windows closed. and there's another sign at the entry right there. windows closed. almost immediately, we get an up close look at a pride of lions.

as you approach these creatures, the reality is that all that's standing between you and them is this glass. you can see how close we get. you're driven in through here. there's a group of them sitting a white lion over there. they can walk right up to the vehicle that you're sitting in. surprisingly surprisingly even after the deadly attack, parkgoers seem unphased. we see some people even now breaking park rules. you can see the car in front of us is driving through these enclosures with the windows wide open. it's incredible despite all of the warnings people are still willing to take those risks. when you're up close to them like this it is incredibly tempting because they're so peaceful and lying there sleeping. if they decided to go for you, they can get to you much quicker than you can put the window up. >> they're wild animals. >> the lion park issued this

statement today. it is with great regret that this incident took place at lion park yesterday afternoon. safety is always our first priority. we have many signs that clearly state that all windows and doors should be closed and locked at all times. lions are predators. these animals should be handled and treated with great respect. when it comes to putting man and beast together it doesn't always go well. the mgm grand in las vegas two trainers had this close call just a few years ago. then there was 24-year-old diana killed when she entered a lion's cage at california's cat haven park. >> the person is still in the enclosure with the lion. ems will be holding back. >> and cared for my humans, cameras have captured plenty of close encounters.

a family posted their close encounter on youtube. >> lock the door. >> lion opening the unlocked door to the car with his teeth. animal tourism is a huge business. guest farms like these are sprung up all over the place. giving tourists the chance to get closer than ever to nature's predators. >> these are wild animals. i tell people this is their home. you always work with respect when you're in the wild or at a zoo. there are wild animals. they are still wild animals. >> in 2010 robin roberts visited this same safari park where the american tourist was killed yesterday. you can see how close people interact with the animals. >> come and say hello to your daddy. >> oh, my goodness. you can just see the claws there. >> i see them just fine. >> here tour guide gets very

close and comfortable with the big cats. >> but why do they allow you to go in there? >> because i'm seen as one of the family. >> and videos of so-called lion whisperers never fail to capture the imagination. kevin richardson an animal behavior ris rescued and raised these lions from birth. even behind the loving embraces their power cannot be under estimated. richardson insists he's raising awareness about these animals. >> there's a comfort zone that person or people and a comfort zone to that wild animal. if that's crossed, it's a train wreck. usually it's the person's fault or people's fault when that happens. >> they run a park out of her

home in south africa. among other animals, they house several big lions inalluding a white lioness. she is deadly. she doesn't let her in with the adult lion but insists hers would never turn on her. >> it won't hurt me. no. i raised him. so i trust them and they trust me. >> some say these kinds of safari parks should be shut down. >> without these parks, the national parks, let us see wild animals and some of the private parks that let us do the same thing, if we can't have these parks, there's no way animals will ever survive. we have them to teach people and educate people. >> back at the lion park, the rangers here have separated the killer lioness from the pack. for now, she will be kept away from the public.

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i'm not sure what exactly we're supposed to feel for the woman in this next story. sympathy? envy? awe? she and her husband have been trying to build the largest house in america.

now, abc explains. >> home sweet super mansion home. what may be america's biggest home once it's finally finished may just be as blinding. >> i wore the wrong heels. >> jackie siegal and her real estate investor husband david are remodeling their palace after another famous building. yes, that versailles backdrop to the charlize theron commercial and home to french royalty for more than a century. >> i'm going to take you on a little tour. >> actually i've already been here. when i came to see america's biggest home a few years ago. >> here's the grand entrance. >> not bad. >> you see ver viesaillesversailles's

history goes back to 2006. when the recession hit in 2008 it became kind of a punch line, a symbol of the excess of the times. >> people say, oh, why do they need nine kitchens. okay. we -- >> are there nine kitchens? >> yeah. >> when i visited the house, it was just a giant husk. unfinished because the siegals ran out of money. if jackie is the queen of versailles her 80-year-old husband is the timeshare king. founder and ceo of the biggest timeshare in the world. >> i stopped construction so i wouldn't take money out of the company, so i wouldn't have to lay off any people. i didn't want to take any money out of the company for a house. when we needed the money in the business. >> couple years back a film maker followed their ups and downs in a documentary called

"queen of versailles." >> almost like a riches to rags story. >> if i could afford a watch, i would tell you. >> the cameras were there to capture it. >> the siegals has to stop construction for three years, putting versailles on the market. >> you can buy the palace that david siegal already wants to sell. >> and cutting back on expenses less shopping down to four or five nannies at the time. >> obviously when money was in demand we had to cut back on our personal expenses. well you know i don't know if she changed caviar. >> in the meantime, they lived here. a 26,000 square footsteping stone with a multi-room two-story closet with a built-in stripper pole. but if construction stopped their dreams never did, as i saw

during a tour of jackie's closet to be. >> it's 4,000 square feet, right? >> thought it was. >> yeah, i don't think it's big enough. >> i didn't realize that. darn it. good thing we came over here. i'm starting to like get upset because this looks too small. >> as the economy recovered, so have the siegals. and now they say the end is in sight. >> within two years, it will be finished. >> i can't wait until it's finished. >> this here is our entrance hall. >> not that you'd necessarily know it from a tour. >> honestly it's a little hard to see what's happened since last year but maybe i'm not seeing the big picture. >> this is our famous ballroom. some people call it the great room. we can entertain probably 500 to a thousand people in this home. this is going to be the commercial kitchen when we do the catering for all the events we're going to do. down here we have a wine

cellar. this would be the family kitchen. the only thing my whole family likes that i can cook is spaghetti. by the pool, we have obsessions with pools. we're on a look too. so go figure. this prism, i copied it. up here is the master bedroom. >> just in case you're wondering if the siegals know how the other half lives, they recently got a chance to find out when they starred on an episode of celebrity wife swap set to air wednesday night on abc. >> i've never been in a farmhouse before. >> jackie ended up on a farm in oklahoma. >> i was totally not prepared. i packed fur coats. >> this is ridiculous. arctic weather. i can't move my fingers. this is hard. >> and she says she learned to appreciate what she has. >> there are points where i was

crying. it was like so treacherous for me. and i really really missed home. >> but as that project stretches out over time will that home still be the biggest? other builders are in the race to build something even bigger but jackie isn't worried. >> i saw on the news the other day there was someone that used our home as a comparison. these people said they're building a much larger home. i looked it up on the internet. and their home is only like 72,000 square feet. >> the builders of course dispute this saying their home will be 100,000 square feet. >> they were also counting the exterior guest houses. we're only counting the main house under one roof which is 90,000. and we'll have other structures on the property too. >> three-fourths of it is her closet. >> i know.

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buddhists are known to make elaborate sand sculptures. this guy you're about to meet now makes art in that same spirit i guess, except it involves lattes. >> it's a frothy creamy concoction. but this will dissolve away nearly as fast. in what way is this art? >> i think it's art a lot of ways because it doesn't really have a use. the only real purpose of art is to make someone happy. >> some artists use paint.

others others sculpt with metal. others, a toothpick. >> i wanted to make art with whatever was around me. >> michael breach is a master barista artist. from quinton to leonardo. his caffeinated creations have hooked tens of thousands of followers on instagram. his creative flare has paid off as a full-time job as a jet-setting latte artist. >> here i am traveling the world doing foam art. >> yeah, i wake up every day and i go is this a joke is this real. am i actually doing this? i'll wake up in australia, wow, i'm in australia. >> doing foam art. >> it's performance art for hit

corporate brands. >> i did stuff for kenneth coal. one day i'm at home and i look and i'm all over the newspapers in england. >> so how does one go from being a barista to the michael anglo of milk? >> i just sort of did it because i thought it was funny. >> your career was launched on a dare. >> i tried to take it to another level because why stop there? >> breach still remains grounded. and just like the foam keeps it light. >> the art to me looks very serious. but you don't take it that seriously. >> i actually do love my job because it doesn't even feel like work. i haven't worked a day in over a year in a half. i'm juju chang in a cup of coffee in brooklyn. >> she looks great even in foam.

thank you for watching abc news tonight. as always we're online 24/7 on our "nightline" facebook page. thanks again for watching and good night. but, ray, you promised. oh, come on, i made lemon chicken and everythihing. he's not coming home for dinner? it might be the lemon chicken. yeah, she's here. yeah, so's your dad. pretty much everyone but you, again. i smell lemon chicken. it's no good. no, i--i understand. yeah, okay. i'll save you some. okay. bye. this is terrible. it's just terrible.

frank: what? raymond doesn't come home for dinner. marie, ray has the kind of job where he just can't leave at 5:00. i mean, you know games go into overtime and players have to be interviewed. lots of things come up at the last minute. let me ask you this delicately. is it possible he doesn't want to come home? what's the blunt versioion of that -- you kick me as you say it? oh, no! i memean i just read an article about this very thing in the new york times. we get newsday every day. what are you buying the times for? i like the obituaries. they're very well-written. you don't even know those people. well, i feel that i do after i read about them. so you've got a bunch of new friends -- all dead. frank, marie. so what did the article say? well, according to some new research, a lot of people stay at wo