A $30 Million Private Island Lists as One of Bahamas’s Most Expensive

If you could buy a near-deserted island, would you be brave enough to do it? When Betsy Dingman and her late billionaire husband, Michael Dingman, bought Little Pipe Cay in the Bahamas from a friend, they had no clue how much maintenance it would require, from hiring a foreman to dredging the seabed for the delivery of construction supplies.

A consortium of high-profile investors, including pop star Shakira and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, likely faced similar challenges…