Tommy Hilfiger has become a Park Avenue resident – at least for the next year. The fashion icon has rented a quadraplex apartment in a 12-story condo building that was formerly owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Sources say Hilfiger, who is continuing the build-out of his Plaza apartment – which is on the market for $50 million – is paying approximately $50,000 per month for a five-bedroom, seven-bathroom apartment located on Park Avenue in the mid-70s.
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Also included is a living room with 17-foot ceilings and a fireplace, a media room, a gourmet kitchen and a private elevator.
The three units in the building, formerly a mega-townhouse that belonged to Combs, were taken off the market in September after they failed to sell at prices that were hovering at about $13 million. According to reports, the ceiling heights in all but the living rooms were barely above 7 feet.
Hilfiger could not be reached for comment on his new digs.
Watts Liev got to do with it
Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber might not be moving into One Madison Park, where they were in contract to buy two apartments. Witnesses say that Watts was recently touring a three-bedroom duplex at 79 Laight St., a TriBeCa building known as the Sugar Warehouse, with a $5.3 million asking price.
As for One Madison Park, Watts and Schreiber have relisted the two condominiums on the 27th floor that they were in contract to purchase at the unfinished high-rise on East 23rd Street for $3.525 million and $4.15 million. They were reportedly planning to buy a larger unit in the building for around $10 million, but there’s no word on that potential deal.
The Laight Street duplex loft, measuring more than 3,500 square feet, includes 16-foot ceilings, 3½ bathrooms, Hudson River views and a woodburning fireplace.
Broker Bill Kowalczuk of the Corcoran Group could not be reached for comment.
Ciao, Bella
Bella Sapir is trying to add a few more million to her divorce nest egg. The ex-wife of real estate mogul Tamir Sapir is re-selling, or flipping (remember that word?), a spacious condo that she recently bought for $8.9 million at 250 E. 53rd St.
Now the nine-room 4,500-square foot pad with four bedrooms and 4½ bathrooms is back on the market for $13.5 million.
Included are 12-foot ceilings, terraces, full city and river views and a gourmet kitchen with appliances from Viking, Sub-Zero and Bosch.
Sapir is apparently content to remain in her sky-high West 56th Street apartment. Her ex-husband, Tamir (a former cabbie), owns the fabled Duke-Semans mansion on Fifth Avenue, and has several high-end real estate developments in the works, including Trump SoHo.
Angela Rapoport of the Corcoran Group is the listing broker.
Erin go east
Erin Callan, the former Lehman Brothers CFO who jumped ship before the company’s spectacular collapse, is in contract to buy a spiffy new condo at 40 E. 66th St.
Sources say she’s about to pay between $7.5 million and $8 million for a three-bedroom, 4½-bathroom apartment in the recently rehabbed prewar building. Callan, who was hailed as Wall Street’s highest-ranking woman before Lehman recorded a net loss of $2.8 billion in its second quarter, moved to Credit Suisse to oversee their global hedge-fund business before the meltdown.
She recently had more luck o’ the Irish when she flipped her apartment at 15 Central Park West for almost twice the $6.48 million she paid for the never-occupied two-bedroom unit.