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When Tory Burch recently sold her 4.5-acre estate on Southampton’s Meadow Lane for $11 million, neighbors were outraged about the low price.
Burch had bought the home from her ex-husband, Chris Burch, for $22.5 million in 2008. The former couple are still feuding bitterly over their businesses — Tory Burch and C. Wonder — with lawsuits filed on both sides.
Now, as plans unfold to tear down the Burch mansion, we can reveal the new owner: health-care mogul Vivek Garipalli, who will be moving onto an elite street that includes billionaire David Koch, Calvin Klein and Rachael Ray, whose homes are said to be worth much more than what Garipalli paid for his share of Meadow Lane. Garipalli, a co-owner of Bayonne Medical Center, plans to build a new 7,100-square-foot home.
Heat’s on at 195 Hudson
A two-bedroom, two-bathroom prewar loft at the high-profile TriBeCa building where Jay-Z and Beyoncé live is generating serious interest after a price reduction.
The apartment that’s on the market at 195 Hudson St. is a 2,293-square-foot condo that was first listed for $3.495 million in June and has since had its price slashed to $2.99 million. There are now multiple bids on the apartment, which is represented by Rutenberg Realty’s Michael Meier and features 12-foot ceilings, a raised living room, oversized windows and two “office nooks.”
The seven-story building was built in 1929 as the headquarters of the US Rubber Company. It was converted to condo lofts in 1999 and now offers a landscaped roof deck with Hudson River views and a celebrity-friendly heated garage that allows for paparazzi-free comings and goings.
Jay-Z bought an 8,300-square-foot unit there for $6.85 million in 2004. Bethenny Frankel also lives in the building and has filmed her reality show, “Bethenny Ever After,” there.
‘Wolf’ lair
Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie and Matthew McConaughey are filming “The Wolf of Wall Street” at the 5,000-square-foot penthouse residence of real estate moguls Rotem
Rosen and Zina Sapir-Rosen on East 55th Street. “Curb Your Enthusiasm” was shot there in the past.
Xerox co-opy
Anne M. Mulcahy, the former CEO of Xerox, has bought a co-op at 50 Gramercy Park North for $4.5 million. The renovated three-bedroom, 3 1/2-bathroom unit, which was listed for $4.85 million, comes with access to the Gramercy Park Hotel’s amenities, including a gym and private roof club.
Listing brokers Michele Kleier and Sabrina Kleier-Morgenstern of Kleier Residential declined to comment.
Bailey’s neat
Interior designer Dane Bailey, a former star of the British version of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” still has a good eye for real estate. He recently checked out a one-bedroom rental at 130 W. 12th St., the conversion of an old Greenwich Village hospital into luxury condos by Rudin Management. The 869-square-foot unit was listed for $6,950 a month, but it looks like somebody besides Bailey has an application out on it.
Listing broker John Barbato of Stribling & Associates was unavailable for comment.
Delicious digs in Brooklyn
Do you aspire to cook like a celebrity chef? The 120-year-old townhouse at 44 Monroe St. in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood, where Bobby Flay has filmed his new Food Network show, “America’s Best Home Cook,” is on the market.
The townhouse, which has been rented by the Flay team from Oct. 15 through Nov. 30 for $30,000, is listed for sale at $1.65 million.
The four-bedroom, two-bathroom townhouse includes lots of exposed steel and, natch, a spacious chef’s kitchen that opens onto a terrace and a private garden.
Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Jerry Minsky has the listing.
But although Flay was filming in Brooklyn, he lives in the Chelsea Mercantile — the building where Katie Holmes and daughter Suri Cruise have a rental — with his actress wife Stephanie March.
We hear . . .
That developer Aby Rosen is hosting a launch party tonight for his new project at 530 Park Ave., where the most expensive unit currently for sale is a $12.3 million, 3,400-square-foot condo. Higher-priced residences will be released for sale at a later date . . . That Douglaston Development’s Benjamin Levine is chairing JNFuture’s Garden of Eden event tonight, featuring DJ Jus Ske at Gansevoort Park Avenue. That Patty Findlay is celebrating the launch of her PF Global Artists marketing and management firm today at 101 E. 63rd St., a $38.5 million townhouse listing where fashion icon Halston once lived . . . That congratulations are in order for Corcoran Group broker Jamie Joseph on the birth of son Jack Battery Joseph. The newborn is the first grandchild for the Corcoran Group’s Wendy Sarasohn. In between contractions, Joseph was finalizing a board package for a client.