A Gilded Age mansion on the Upper East Side just traded in for a big discount.
An entity linked to hedge fund manager Joseph DiMenna sold the historic mansion at 10 East 67th Street for $36 million, significantly lower than the original asking price of $50 million, according to public records.
The buyer, whose identity is shielded by an LLC, paid about $2,800 per square foot for the seven-story home, known as the Jules Bache Mansion. It has seven bedrooms and ten bathrooms and features an elevator, a garden and a 1,700 square meter roof terrace.
DiMenna and his now ex-wife, producer Diana, bought the sprawling 13,000-square-foot home in 2006 for $28.5 million from Jeanne Andlinger, wife of the late investment banker Gerhard Andlinger. Andlinger appears to have inherited the house in 2003 from the estate of the late art collector and socialite Catarina “Kitty” Meyer.
Meyer died in the house in 1997 after an electrical fire ripped through it in the early hours of the morning, trapping her and her guest, actress and socialite Zohra Lahrizi Zondler, on a fifth-floor balcony. New York Times reported at the time.
After the fire broke out, Meyer ran upstairs to rescue Zondler, but the two women were unable to get back down. Both Meyer and Zondler died after jumping from the balcony.
The house was completely renovated after the fire, including a new chef’s kitchen and solarium Mansion Global. The architect, Peter Marino, maintained the original staircase and parts of the formal dining room.
The DiMennas listed the property last February, three months before the couple filed for divorce in New York. The home hit the market with an asking price of $50 million, but later dropped to $45 million when Ryan Serhant and Serhant’s Melissa Post took over the listing from Douglas Elliman earlier this year.
The deal follows a series of contract signings for notable Upper East Side mansions, including Bill Cosby’s 13,000-square-foot home at 18 East 71st Street, which was asking $29 million. The disgraced actor closed a signed deal on his mansion earlier this month as the property was declared bankrupt.
Barbara Streisand also found a buyer for her home at 49 East 80th Street in August. The eight-bedroom mansion was most recently asking $16 million.
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