When Harry met Sally, he never dreamed she was such a savvy businesswoman.
Nora Ephron, the famed screenwriter, playwright, novelist and journalist who died in 2012, left an estate worth more than $27 million — nearly double original estimates, new court filings reveal.
A final accounting of Ephron’s will, filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court last week, shows that when she wasn’t writing romantic comedy classics like the 1989 film “When Harry Met Sally,’’ she was playing the stock market.
And it wasn’t just for laughs.
Ephron — who focused on Internet darlings — wound up with $642,000 in Apple shares, more than $110,000 in Google and $89,000 in Amazon.
All told, she left behind some $10.2 million in stocks and other investments besides real estate, the documents show.
As for her property empire, it totaled just over $12 million, according to the court documents.
At the time of her death at age 71 from acute myeloid leukemia, she and hubby Nicholas Pileggi owned a posh Beverly Hills bungalow, an East Hampton mansion and an East 79th Street co-op.
Ephron, who got her start as a New York Post reporter, also had $4 million in personal property, including $240,000 worth of belongings inside her Manhattan apartment and $500,000 in cash, mortgages and loans.
Ephron’s will, filed last September, had pegged her assets at $15 million.
She left most of the estate — $22 million — to Pileggi, an author and screenwriter, too, most famous for co-writing the screenplay to “Goodfellas” adapted from his Mafia tome, “Wiseguy.”
The court documents showed that the thrice-married Ephron wanted to go out in style when she ordered her estate to spend more than $100,000 for her funeral service at Lincoln Center.
Celebrity-event planner David Monn alone netted $30,000 for his services.
The star-studded event included actors such as Tom Hanks, who starred in Ephron’s “Sleepless in Seattle,’’ and Meryl Streep, from her movies “Heartburn’’ and “Julie & Julia.’’
Comic-turned-US Sen. Al Franken, Barbara Walters, Martin Scorsese and Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter also attended.
Ephron’s famous fans noshed on $20,000 in Mediterranean fare from Arpeggio catering and sipped pink champagne.
According to the final version of her will, Ephron’s son Jacob, from her second marriage to Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, was given a $460,000 Soho co-op on Thompson Street.
Jacob and her other son with Bernstein, Max, also were the beneficiaries, along with her husband, of millions of dollars in trust funds.
Ephron also left generous cash bequests totaling almost $1 million to her sisters, nieces, nephews and staff.
The estate will have to pay $1.7 million in taxes and $380,000 in debts, including more than $7,000 in credit card payments and $30,000 for repairs on her East Hampton summer home that were started before she died.