See the 50,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion at the center of a billion-dollar bankruptcy

The 1907 Crocker-McMillin mansion -- modeled after a Jacobean-Age English estate -- in all its slate-shingled and carved-limestone glory.

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• An opulent 1907 estate, overlooking New Jersey's Ramapo Mountains, is up for bankruptcy sale.
• It has housed an heir, student priests, and a fraud convict who went from rags to riches to RICO.
• These photos show the Crocker-McMillin mansion — listed for $19 million — in its Gilded Age glory.

The Crocker-McMillin mansion...