Roger Stone downsizes out of $2M Florida mansion into new $500K condo

Hounded by tourists, supporters and haters, indicted Donald Trump campaign operative Roger Stone has quietly moved out of his $2 million, nine-room Fort Lauderdale mansion where he was arrested by armed FBI agents January 25 and into a condo less than half its size, DailyMail.com has learned.

'Eighty percent of my furniture is in storage,' Stone said of his fall from grace in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com. 'I had to leave my beautiful 4,000-square-foot home on a canal for security and economic reasons.'

The security reasons, the 66-year-old claimed, involved the constant stream of people ringing the doorbell from early in the morning until late at night.

'There were some nuts who wanted to hate me, local ladies dropping off a cake or food and even some people to give me a check for my defense fund,' he said. 'After the FBI raided my house and the footage ended up everywhere, people figured out where I lived.

'I travel pretty often, so I didn't want my wife, who is deaf, to be alone in a property everybody felt entitled to enter.'

Roger Stone moved out of his $2M, Fort Lauderdale mansion and into a smaller condo. But although Stone insists he is broke, DailyMail.com has learned that isn't quite the case.  According to public records, a trust fund controlled by his wife Nydia (pictured together), bought a two-bedroom condo where the couple now lives for $525,000 on March 22

Roger Stone moved out of his $2M, Fort Lauderdale mansion and into a smaller condo. But although Stone insists he is broke, DailyMail.com has learned that isn't quite the case.  According to public records, a trust fund controlled by his wife Nydia (pictured together), bought a two-bedroom condo where the couple now lives for $525,000 on March 22 

The Trump supporter says he was forced to downsize due to economic and security reasons, claiming people were ringing his mansion's doorbell (pictured) throughout the day. He said: 'There were some nuts who wanted to hate me, local ladies dropping off a cake or food and even some people to give me a check for my defense fund'

The Trump supporter says he was forced to downsize due to economic and security reasons, claiming people were ringing his mansion's doorbell (pictured) throughout the day. He said: 'There were some nuts who wanted to hate me, local ladies dropping off a cake or food and even some people to give me a check for my defense fund'

According to the Broward County Property Appraiser's Office, the condo at the Galleria Lofts (pictured) is a brand spanking new two bedroom place with more than 1,600 square feet of space

According to the Broward County Property Appraiser's Office, the condo at the Galleria Lofts (pictured) is a brand spanking new two bedroom place with more than 1,600 square feet of space

The tour buses started driving by, pointing out to passengers the home of Stone, the Trump associate awaiting a federal trial on seven counts of lying to congress, witness tampering and obstructing a Congressional investigation.

And in the back of the mansion, gawkers on private boats floated past his house on one of the city's famous canals and sometimes docked.

'One car dealer from Michigan pulled up in his boat with two fine, barely dressed women after he saw I was in the backyard getting some sun,' Stone said. 'He asked if he could tie up on my dock and I said sure.'

Stone, a long-ago aide to President Richard Nixon who proudly wears a tattoo of the face of his disgraced former boss on his back, spent the next few minutes sipping on martinis with the man and his companions.

They left after the man wrote a $1,000-check for his legal defense, Stone said. 

Which brings up the second reason why Stone moved out from the rented mansion, and he claims it's economic hardship.

Stone is on a fundraising tour of local Republican Party clubs in Florida and even had an appearance scheduled in a Richmond, Virginia, strip club to help him pay for the expected $2 million in legal bills to fight the federal charges at a trial scheduled for November 5 in Washington, D.C.

'This has ruined me financially and robbed me of being able to make a living,' he said, adding he hired high-profile South Florida attorney Bruce Rogow. 'So I'm traveling all over for appearances where I sell my books and merchandise.' 

To help raise money for his legal defense, Stone is on a fundraising tour of local Republican Party clubs in Florida and even had an appearance scheduled in a Richmond, Virginia, strip club Paper Moon (pictured) to help him pay for the expected $2 million in legal bills to fight the federal charges at a trial scheduled for November 5 in Washington, D.C

To help raise money for his legal defense, Stone is on a fundraising tour of local Republican Party clubs in Florida and even had an appearance scheduled in a Richmond, Virginia, strip club Paper Moon (pictured) to help him pay for the expected $2 million in legal bills to fight the federal charges at a trial scheduled for November 5 in Washington, D.C

'This has ruined me financially and robbed me of being able to make a living,' Stone said, adding he hired high-profile South Florida attorney Bruce Rogow. 'So I'm traveling all over for appearances where I sell my books and merchandise'

'This has ruined me financially and robbed me of being able to make a living,' Stone said, adding he hired high-profile South Florida attorney Bruce Rogow. 'So I'm traveling all over for appearances where I sell my books and merchandise' 

The strip club appearance? 

'It's a gentleman's club,' Stone said about the venue, Paper Moon, ironically. 'One year ago, I was speaking at the Oxford Union

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