By Olga Guerrero

Miami Beach, Jun 15 (EFE).– Almost seven decades after legendary gangster Al Capone died at his Miami Beach mansion, the fully restored waterfront property is being made available as a set for television, film and even commercial shoots.

The mailbox of the house on Biscayne Bay no longer keeps any secrets.

Any passerby who gets to No. 93 on posh Palm Island can peek inside and find a flyer from the new owners, real estate firm MB America, inviting them to take tennis lessons.

A few steps from the spot where Capone, known as “Scarface,” would pick up his mail, a white oak door opens onto a Spanish Colonial-style village sprawling over 2,700 sq. meters (29,000 sq. feet), built in 1922.

The Prohibition-era mobster paid $40,000 for the mansion in the 1920s and made it his residence.

Capone left the house to report to California’s Alcatraz prison, where he served a sentence after being convicted of tax evasion, and returned six years later, suffering from senile dementia.

The mobster died at the mansion in 1947 from a stroke at the age of 48.

The compound consists of three different buildings. One, on one end of the property on the street, and another, on Biscayne Bay, were intended for Capone’s bodyguards and guests, while he lived in the central building.

The villa is whitewashed and surrounded by tropical plants preserved in their original design. On one corner of the property, there is a fountain built with pink coral.

“Legend has it that Al Capone used to come here and sit along with his mother and his granddaughter to pray,” Marco Bruzzi, a spokesman for the new owners, told Efe.

“The property was bought for $8 million in 2014 and $2 million more was invested to restore it,” Bruzzi said, adding that it was now available to rent for $5,000 a day.

“The original wall structure was preserved, but it was necessary to repair cracks and restore essential parts like the floor, the foundation and the roof,” Bruzzi said.

“The house was in poor condition. Almost nothing was left of the original furniture, only some lamps, doors and windows,” he said.

A bathroom designed to Capone’s specifications was preserved intact on the ground level.

A dozen men are working in the house, putting the final touches on the seven rooms, kitchen and five bathrooms.

Under the wood floor in the bedroom where Capone died, there was a beehive and pest control experts had to be called in to remove the insects.

The main hall is dominated by a minimalist fireplace and a porch provides access to an 18-meter (59-foot) long and 9-meter (30-foot) wide pool, one of the largest on Palm Island.

“It was filled with seawater through a pipe,” Bruzzi said. “Legend has it that Capone would fish in his own pool.”