Popular Culture
- Oheka served as partial inspiration for Gatsby's estate in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
- In the 1941 film Citizen Kane, photographs of Oheka were used to portray the fictional Xanadu.
- Present, The castle is Boris's mansion "Shadow Pond" on the television show Royal Pains.
- In 2009, Kevin Jonas from the band Jonas Brothers married his fiancé at Oheka.
- In 2010, Oheka was the set of the fictional Avalon Castle on the soap opera, As The World Turns.
- In 2010, it was used to film a scene in It's Kind of a Funny Story.
- In 2010, the castle could be seen in the movie What Happens in Vegas, with stars Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher
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