Billionaire’s granddaughter, 34, takes out mortgage on $20m Vaucluse home

She’s the granddaughter of Australia’s richest man, Harry Triguboff, who has an estimated wealth of $32.28 billion, but Miki Hendler is paying off her own home with a mortgage.

Settlement documents last week confirmed Hendler, one of four grandchildren, and her pub baron husband, Elliot Solomon, paid $20,575,000 for a five-bedroom, four-bathroom Vaucluse mansion with a pool, after this masthead exclusively revealed the sale last June.

The title is under Hendler’s name and a mortgage is with the ANZ Bank.

Triguboff retained his title as Australia’s richest man in The Australian Financial Review’s 2026 Rich List, with an estimated wealth of $32.28 billion, thanks to his Meriton property empire.

Hendler, 34, previously worked in the family business. Solomon is the chief executive of his family-run hospitality company Solotel, which runs a long list of popular venues such as North Bondi Fish, Aria, Chiswick and Chophouse to name a few.

The couple also have a mortgage with the ANZ Bank for a four-bedroom, two-bathroom Meriton home in Bondi Beach, with records showing Hendler paid $3.73 million in 2020 for the address. It was last listed as a rental at $1250 a week in January 2021.

Miki and Elliot’s Vaucluse compound is set on 900 square metres and is moments away from Vaucluse and Rose Bay villages as well as Nielsen Park.

It’s a hop, skip and a jump from her grandfather’s almost 6000-square-metre landholding and the almost 3000-square-metre address of her parents, Sharon Hendler, Triguboff’s daughter, and her husband, Gary Hendler, further up the road where she grew up. The Hendlers purchased it for $6 million in 1997.

Miki and Elliot purchased the harbourside home from Christopher Kalowski, of Silver Star Fashions, and his wife, Vivian. The Kalowskis bought the home for $1.625 million in 1988.

Christopher, who was in women’s fashion manufacturing for decades, tried his hand at property development some years ago, but the venture went awry and he on-sold the project to another developer who finished the build.

Global funds manager, Nick Selvaratnam, and his wife, Sherine, don’t have the worries of a mortgage. They’re offloading their Mosman mansion for a smaller pad, listing it with a price guide of $23 million to $25 million, local sources have revealed.

The couple purchased the palatial three-storey, five-bedroom, three-bathroom home with a pool for $5.55 million in 2002 in cash, records show.

Interiors include a marble kitchen with breakfast bar, travertine floors and a central atrium.

There is a pool surrounded by landscaped gardens, balconi