Bond creator's home becoming celeb resort

The home once owned by James Bond creator Ian Fleming will become a resort for celebrities, The Times reports.

The Jamaican villa Goldeneye will be turned into a $120 million (£60 million) resort for musicians, sports stars and businessmen. The project will include 85 homes, two restaurants, a health spa, delicatessen, supermarket and water sports centre. Prices are said to range from $750,000 to $3 million, with several deposits already paid.

Goldeneye is currently a 12 bedroom hotel and owner Chis Blackwell, whose Island Records label made Bob Marley famous, revealed he hoped to preserve Fleming's home on the new complex.

"The Jamaican people are the root of my success and I want to give something back," he said. "I will keep Fleming's house as it is so that people can see the Goldeneye that he wrote in, but the future of this place is as a resort location."

Ian Fleming bought the 15-acre plot, which lies on the north coast, in 1946 after falling in love with Jamaica during a wartime operation.

He wrote all his novels at Goldeneye and died in 1964 at the height of Bond's popularity. The home's name was used by the film franchise producers for Pierce Brosnan's first outing as the iconic spy.