if jackie is the queen of versailles, her 77-year-old husband david siegel is the king.er and ceo of one of the biggest time share companies in the world. westgate construction. >> i stopped construction so i wouldn't take money out of the company so i wouldn't have to lay off any people. i couldn't pay the principal. again, i didn't want to take any money out of the company for a house when we needed the money in the business. >> reporter: when they broke ground 2003, siegel's business was booming, not long after, jackie and her husband greed to let a filmmaker document the process. along with their personal lives, their eight children, five dogs. >> we didn't start out having a 90,000-square foot house. it was more like say normal 60, 000 square foot house? >> normal. >> normal. we knew what we had. we have eight children. >> $4 million of mahogany doors and windows. >> reporter: but also consider themselves, well, frugal. >> i want you to pick up the cup you've been carrying around. they're matching cups. >> twins. >> that's all i use. >> keeps it cold. and it's cheap

even putting versailles on the market.business is now thriving, as is jacki's shopping. >> oh, my goodness her shopping. guc gucch, valuen tee know, versace. >> reporter: and they hop to start building again soon. >> it doesn't feel big. >> reporter: you want to make it bigger? >> no, no. i don't want -- i want to make it done. >> reporter: matt gutman, abc news, florida. >> and we thank you for watching tonight. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline" will be along later. and, of course, we'll see you right back here again tomorrow night. good night. [ obama ] i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. [ female announcer ] every woman who believes decisions about our bodies and our health care should be our own is troubled mitt romney supports overturning roe versus wade. romney backed a law that outlaws all abortion -- even in cases of rape and incest. and that's not all. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. [ female announcer ] for women, planned parenthood means life-saving cancer screenings and family-

even putting versailles on the market. business is now thriving, as is jacki's shopping. >> oh, my goodness her shopping. guc gucch, valuen tee know, versace. >> reporter: and they hop to start building again soon. >> it doesn't feel big. >> reporter: you want to make it bigger? >> no, no. i don't want -- i want to make it done. >> reporter: matt gutman, abc news, florida. >> and we thank you for watching tonight. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline" will be along later. and, of course, we'll see you right back here again tomorrow night. good night. captioned by closed captioning services, inc.

even putting versailles on the market.business is now thriving, as is jacki's shopping. >> oh, my goodness her shopping gucci, valentino, versace. >> reporter: and they hope to start building again soon. >> it doesn't feel big. >> reporter: you want to make it bigger? >> no, no. i don't want -- i want to make it done. >> reporter: matt gutman, abc news, windermere, florida. >> and we thank you for watching tonight. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline" will be along later. and, of course, we'll see you right back here again tomorrow night. good night. >>> ilyana lopez comes to her husband's defense, the star witness tonight at the misconduct hearing and we're there, live. >> a tragic case of road rage tonight. a speeding car racing out of control sending a woman and baby to the hospital. what ticked off the driver? >> police investigate a rash of neighborhood burglaries and vandalism. we have surveillance video that we're going to show you that could identify a suspect. >> and a new state of the art two wheeler may

>> that's the case at versailles, the one near orlando, florida.ows us inside. ♪ >> reporter: it's the american dream, supersized. >> i'm running out of room. >> reporter: the lady of this orlando-area manor, 46-year-old jackie siegel. her neighbors, shaquille o'neal and tiger woods. 20,000 square feet. 19 bathrooms. just as many bedrooms, she thinks. >> probably like 18 or 20 or something bedrooms. >> reporter: eight kids, five dogs, and a colossal multiroom two-story closet with a built-in stripper pole. the former beauty queen from binghamton, new york, has everything, almost. >> this is a temporary house. we're going to live here for a few years. >> reporter: consider this a starter mansion. >> now, we're going to take a look into the largest home in america. >> reporter: welcome to versailles. at 90,000 square feet, it will be the largest house in america, if completed. bigger than a 747 hangar, two, full acres of interior space. requiring segways to get around. >> that's the observation deck. the bowling alley is downstairs. this is our sushi

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. >> it's called versailles, yes, like the palace in france, except this one is near orlando and stiller construction, in fact. abc's matt gutman introduces us to the owners. ♪ >> reporter: it's the american dream supersized. >> i'm running out of room. >> reporter: the lady of this orlando area manor, 46-year-old jackie siegel. her neighbors -- shaquille o'neal and tiger woods. 26,000 square feet. 19 bathrooms. just as many bedrooms. she thinks. >> probably like 18 or 20 or something bedrooms. >> reporter: eight kids, five dogs, one taxidermy and a colossal multiroom, two-story closet with a built-in -- hmm -- stripper pole. >> there's a twin dancing. >> reporter: her husband is 77-year-old billionaire david siegel. >> i don't believe in wasting money. >> reporter: the former beauty queen from binghamton, new york, has everything. almost. >> this is the temporary house. we're going to live here for a few years. >> reporter: consider this a starter mansion. >> now we're going to take a look into the largest home in america. >> reporter: welcome to versailles. at 90,000 square feet, it

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with versailles, when the film ends, the building was in default with the banlg. about to put it up for auction. he borrowed money and was able to forestall the auction. >> lauren, when i watched the movie, i felt myself being very sympathetic with jackie. you know, she seemed to be down to earth and looks like she was facing losing a lot of her lifestyle, she was fairly, you know, just very pragmatic about it. i've gone from rags to riches. i can do rags again basically. is she as sympathetic as that in real life? >> yes. she is coming in to new york today for the premier tomorrow night at the museum of modern art. and been with me at several festivals. one of the things that drew me to the story is the characters of jackie and david. they're both incredible people and i think the thing of jackie is even though she lived this outsized fantasy life, there's something about her down to earth and relatible and that's why it's an interesting story. i mean, the film really starts as a look at the 1%, at the american dream in the most extreme manifestation and by the e

. ♪ >> reporter: welcome to versaill versailles, at 90,000 square feet, it will be the largest houseer than a 747 hangar, requiring segways to get around. >> we have a library, two movie theaters. >> that's the observation deck. the bowling air alley is down stairs. >> this is the sushi area. >> people wonder why we need nine kitchens? >> and a 4,000 square foot closet. >> maybe this is smaller than my other house's closet. >> it's 4,000 square feet, right? >> i thought it was. >> this looks too small. >> reporter: in 2008, the queen of versailles, and her husband, agreed to let a film crew document the building process. >> two tennis courts. full-size baseball field. >> we didn't start out having a 90,000 square foot house. it was more like a normal 60,000 square foot house. >> then i said, i want a bowling alley, and he said i want a health spa. we kept going back and forth and adding on things. >> reporter: the siegels offered lauren greenfield all access into their home, their marge and belt-tightening. and construction stopped for four years siegel tried to sell for $100 million

bostic along towsontown boulevard last thursday.they say he forced his way into an apartment on versaillesircle, which just so happens to be a neighboring apartment building. cpl. kathleen batton, baltimore co. police: 11.43.58 "it's extremely important to get someone like this off the streets. we have three separate crimes. people were home at the time he committed these offenses." offenses."bostic lived in a first floor apartment he's now at baltimore county detention center. a close call for a woman who fell onto a subway track this m. morning. it happened about 11-30 today at the state center metro station downtown.it's still unclearrwhy the woman fell, but police say she survived by crawling into a space under the platform. she was hit by the subway as it passed, but not run over.transit authorities say the train was going about 30 miles per hour. "where the train enters the station, comes around a beam, so its kind of a blind corner. the operator reports he did see the woman as he was preparing to enter the station, but she was so near the entrance he didnt have time to stop." stop."

the queen of versailles is currently showing in select theaters in new york and las vegas.ill ferrell will be here. "morning joe" straight ahead. [ male announcer ] when this hotel added aflac to provide a better benefits package... oahhh! [ male announcer ] it made a big splash with the employees. [ duck yelling ] [ male announcer ] find out more at... [ duck ] aflac! [ male announcer ] ...forbusiness.com. ♪ ha ha! .... ♪ . >>> still ahead, will ferrell will be here on set. plus, you know, this guy is kind of a big deal. chuck todd joins us the conversation and up next, mitt romney riles up the british press by questioning whether or not london is really ready for the olympic games. keep it right here on "morning joe." ♪ [ cellphone rings ] the wife. hey, babe. got the jetta. i wiped the floor with the guy! not really. i would've been fine with 0% for 36 months, but i demanded 60. no...i didn't do that. it was like taking candy from a baby. you're a grown man. alright, see you at home. [ male announcer ] the volkswagen autobahn for all event. we good? we're good. [ male an

they say he forced his way into an apartment on versailles circle, which just so happens to be a neighboring apartment building. police say bostic tried breaking into a woman's apartment: with her inside watching t-v.they found him on the way back to his place: with stolen credit cards in connection to a break-in in the same building.he was arrested-- and was connected through d-n-a evidence... to a sexual assault back in may. kricket hicks, towson: 23.26 "and, this happened in may. and, here, it's almost the end of july, so wwat was he doing in that interim? i mean, that's scary. he's walking around trying to find another place to get into." bostic lived in a first floor apartment behind me.he's now at baltimore county detention center.that sexual assault was on york road here in towson was exactly two months ago today.live in towson, paul gessler, fox45 news at five. a man is behind bars tonight accused in a deadly stabbing in baltimoreecounty. 3 mark brown jr. is charged with first-degree murder after police say he stabbed his acquaintance phillip weatherford.the victim was found inside h

bostic along towsontown boulevard last thursday.they say he forced his way into an apartment on versailles circle, which just so happens to be a neighboring apartment building. cpl. kathleen batton, baltimore co. police: 11.43.58 "it's extremely important to get someone like this off the streets. we have three separate crimes. people were home at the time he committed these offenses." offenses."bostic lived in a first floor apartment he's now at baltimore county detention center. a man is behind bars tonight accused in a deadly stabbing in baltimore county. 3 mark brown jr. is charged with first-degree murder after police say he stabbed his acquaintance phillip weatherford.the victim was found inside his car about 2-30 monday morning near pulaski highway and ebenezer road in white marsh. they were traveling southbound on pulaski highway in the victims vehicle when an argument occured, durnig that argument the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim several times. times. 3 police are still investigating what led to the fight. brown is being held without bail. a man is dead after b

france's abolition society, and so a group of men got together at laboullet's summer house near versailles, and their idea was to try to come up with a way of commemorating the life and achievements of abraham lincoln to celebrate the victory of the north in the civil war and to make a critical comment on their own government because it turned out that in the 1860s french had an authoritarian government run by napoleon iii who was the nephew of napoleon. and it was a government that was not friendly to liberty, and so this group of men tried to put all these things together, abolition, the commemoration of the life of president lincoln and a way of being critical of an authoritarian government and get away with it, and so their idea was to sort of obliquely criticize their own government by talking about how much better the american system of politics was, and so that's the sort of french origin that really comes out of a french political situation with a group of liberal in the 19 century sense, well-educated french men who wanted to make a comment about their own government's politics, a

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we were going to defend boundaries such as ireland or mess created in europe after the treaty of versailles. so he was opposed to that. he thought the league could be fixed. he planned to submit a clean bill, sort of treaty which could get through the senate when he became secretary of state. unfortunately that was impossible. warren harding saw this maybe a little quicker than he did. but hughes recognized the truth of that, that it was really a fool's error to go back there. the senate was not going to approve that. but he moves on from that. he stays. he thought about resigning. he stays. he has -- really, he pioneers an international disarmament, and a groundbreaking navy treaty caps the ratio of 10-10-6, the unite states, the united kingdom and japan. scraps a lot of heavy tonnage battleships. this is a good deal for the united states, because with our congress we were not about to spend the money on the military. we would have lost ground to japan in that decade. also, he moves on to other treaties in the far east. he gets japan to give the province of shantung back to china, which wa

the care-takers of versailles open on the grounds.re a best western? in the historic city of seville, the cathedral where christopher columbus is buried. it bet you a euro to a dollar they call it columbus tower. if they expand, new world center. i reported i guarantee you that they will copy. but that is okay. that is okay. i'm here to serve. just remember when everyone was laughing at me with my ideas how you cowell slap a corporate label on every site, look what they are doing. they're slapping a corporate label on every antiquity and tourist site. take note here. washington monument, we could do worse. we're going to be celebrating the fourth of july with you here, live tomorrow. we have alan west with us. we have the former commander of the uss bolt. we honor our independence looking at the dollar and the sense of it as well. have a great fourth. >> kimberly: hello, everyone. i'm kimberly guilfoyle, with bob bob, eric bolling -- bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five

the care-takers of versailles open on the grounds.re a best western? in the historic city of seville, the cathedral where christopher columbus is buried. it bet you a euro to a dollar they call it columbus tower. if they expand, new world center. i reported i guarantee you that they will copy. but that is okay. that is okay. i'm here to serve. just remember when everyone was laughing at me with my ideas how you cowell slap a corporate label on every site, look what they are doing. they're slapping a corporate label on every antiquity and tourist site. take note here. washington monument, we could do worse. we're going to be celebrating

plus, on art beat, jeff talks to the director of the new documentary, "the queen of versailles." it follows a very wealthy couple as they build the largest house in america just as the financial crisis hits. that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and again, to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are eight more. >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at the nation's largest immigrant group, asian americans, and the political clout they may wield in one key state. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. than

see open mike moment as a gaffe, versailles russ gaffe. that is a foreign policy gaffe.tt romney doesn't have experience planning barbecues in chicago like president obama does he has experience planning and putting together the olympics and actually fixing the olympics. so his criticism was well-taken and relevant. comes to, hold on, bob. >> sorry. >> point, israel is very important. he made that comment about the culture because the palestinians are teaching their children jihad. they are teaching them to hate. so when he talks about a culture, that is what he is talking about. very relevant, very on point and something that president obama would never have the guts to say. >> he was talking about economic development and sort of hard to do that when your borders are sealed up. >> that is isn't what i was talking about. >> we all missed it here, left england without watching his wife's horse in the dressage. i never heard of the dressage before but talks about very expensive horses. bill: when he comes back home all the attention will come back to issue number one, tha

it's from 1919, 100-years-old when the ilo was founded as a part of the treaty of versailles that ended the first war and one thing that is very interesting about the ilo is that after having been born after a world war where the ideas were to address the root causes of the injustices of the war and the visionary response was to put together three main actors which are employers, workers and organizations. we heard today the president was saying about the discussions. this is exactly what the ilo brought about. and when we look at the history, because it is important to look at ourselves today almost 100 years later from when the organization was built, we see that at every moment where we have the war in a transition there was a particular role that these organizations had to play. we had a net 1944 an amendment to the constitution, and this was to the declaration of philadelphia something in the united states, and that expanded the role to look at human rights at the center of social policy and also to include economic planning. interestingly many people might not know the human right

he had gone with wilson to versailles. think john maynard came said he is the only guy who came out of the conference with his reputation enhanced. and he is a great admirer of wilson after that. he writes a book called "the ordeal of woodrow wilson." so he says, look, you have the democratic party has three wings, southern reaction areas, big city crooks, and agrarian nuts, and he says, i don't want any part of them, and i think also didn't want to be part of a blood bath where he would be carrying the flag for a party which was going down in flames that year. >> host: in your book, 1920, the year of the six presidents, published in 2007. you said the republican is faced difficult at the. the candidate was dead. the democratic party was worse, a living president who would not get out of the way. >> guest: that's woodrow wilson. he was a great orator. you look at woodrow wilson, and see the silent films. he has this thin face, looks like the caricature of the blue nose, and looks like he is going to be very reedy voice, an