Colorful entrepreneur/model impregnator Flavio Briatore is selling his One Beacon Court penthouse for $18 million — $5 million less than its most recent asking price. The 53rd-floor condo, which Briatore bought for about $10 million in 2005 and is now unloading to a mystery buyer, is 4,485 square feet and has four bedrooms and 4½ baths. There are 13-foot floor-to-ceiling windows with views that include the East River, Chrysler Building, Central Park and the George Washington Bridge.
Briatore, who was forced to resign from the ING Renault Formula 1 team after a race-fixing scandal, is also known for fathering one of supermodel Heidi Klum’s daughters. Briatore, 59, now has a newborn son with Elisabetta Gregoraci, the lingerie model (30 years his junior) he married in 2008.
Beach beauty
Real estate mogul and mega-yacht lover Andrew Farkas, of Insignia and Island Capital, has put his stunning Southampton beach house on the market for $9.995 million.
The 10-bedroom, 7½-bath mansion comes with a gated entrance, a pool, two spas overlooking the bay, waterside patios, a tennis court, a private beach, two cabanas and a two-bedroom apartment over the garage.
Farkas purchased the bayfront house on Mullen Hill Lane for $5.4 million in 2004.
Listing broker Susan Breitenbach of the Corcoran Group declined to comment.
Perhaps Farkas’ next beach manse will be in Montauk, where he already owns the splashy Montauk Yacht Club.
Next act
Actress Jennifer Esposito, who filed for divorce after just four months of marriage to Bradley Cooper, in 2007, has sold her Greenwich Village apartment for $700,000. The 880-square-foot one-bedroom co-op is in the prewar Albert building on East 10th Street.
The corner apartment, on the seventh floor, has an open kitchen and breakfast bar, 10½-foot beamed ceilings and a decorative fireplace. Esposito, who is now engaged to Australian tennis pro Mark Philippoussis, still owns a penthouse studio directly above.
Listing broker Nick Gavin of the Corcoran Group had no comment.