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A-Rod leaving 15 CPW, buying penthouse at The Rushmore

Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez is moving out.

The slugger is leaving his $30,000-a-month rental bachelor pad at swanky 15 Central Park West — home to rock stars like Sting and billionaire hedge funders — next month.

A-Rod is buying a five-bedroom, full-floor penthouse in the $6 million range at The Rushmore, an Upper West Side building at 80 Riverside Blvd. in Lincoln Square developed by Extell Corp., The Post has learned.

Sources said that the rental unit was not “private enough,” despite the steep price, because it was on the market for sale — and that potential buyers and gawkers were poking around too much, disturbing his privacy.

A-Rod has recently been looking at posh pads downtown with Hollywood A-lister Cameron Diaz.

One person who toured with them said the pair were definitely “an item” and that Diaz was asking questions as if she planned to move into a new home with her beaux. However, A-Rod’s past history with the ladies makes people who know him rather skeptical.

“She’s flavor of the month,” the source said. “She thinks they’re moving in together, but I’d be very shocked if they were still together in six months.”

Recently, the striking couple toured a stunning townhouse at 153 Franklin St., which comes with its own private garage — a rarity in the city.

The 27-foot-wide townhouse has four bedrooms, four and a half baths and is 6,800 square feet. It sits on a charming cobblestoned street in Tribeca and comes with a theater, gym, spa, guest suite, state-of-the-art kitchen, limestone radiant heat floors, and a great room with a large skylight and a fireplace on the lower floor.

There’s also a large planted terrace with a Japanese paper glass wall and a grill on the second floor. The third floor includes the master suite with a wet bar, his/her walk-in clsoets/dressing rooms, a limestone bath and custom steel staircases throughout. The price: a mere $13.995 million.

Not bad, considering that yesterday The Post also reported that the couple looked at 400 West St., a 7,180 square foot townhouse in the Village, for sale at $18.95 million. The townhouse includes a basketball court that converts into a screening room.