Joan Rivers has been dead for five months now, and her Upper East Side (Manhattan) penthouse is on the market. The swanky home is listed for $28 million. Rivers herself had been trying to unload the penthouse since 2012. She had it listed at $29.5 million. The home is a triplex of 5,100 square feet sporting decor that sources say is “straight out of Versailles.” Rivers was, at the time of her death, considering a full-time move to Los Angeles to be closer to her daughter and grandson. The apartment boasts 23-foot ceilings, a grand ballroom, a music room, and separate guest quarters.
Joan Rivers’ home is modeled after the palace of Versailles. Let them eat cake!
Just sold: Frank Sinatra’s former home. The penthouse belonging to Ol’ Blue Eyes was listed at $5 million, and called “a glittering grotto in the sky.” Sinatra’s estate wasn’t the easiest sell – his descendants had to leave the home on the market for quite some time and take a price cut of $2.7 million in order to unload it. The unit is located at the white-glove Edgewater building in Lenox Hill, Manhattan, and overlooks the East River. The building is and has always been full of celebrities: in his day, Sinatra swanned about here with the likes of Mia Farrow, President Kennedy and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Kobe Bryant has chopped the list price on his Los Angeles home. The basketball prodigy is currently nursing a torn rotator cuff and seeking a buyer for his Newport Coast home, which just saw its price cut from $8.5 million down to $6.995 million – a difference of over $1.5 million. The home is a 8,500 square foot behemoth that Bryant and his wife, Vanessa bought in 1997 for $1.7 million and then extensively remodeled. It includes a 850 square foot gym, a hair salon, and an in-home theater with lobby and wet bar. The yard boasts views of both ocean and city.
