Fashionable foodie Katie Lee, Billy Joel’s stunning ex-wife, is putting her Perry Street townhouse on the market for $12.9 million. The Nate Berkus-decorated home has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, four fireplaces, an elevator, a landscaped garden and a landscaped terrace off the master suite.
The 4,000-square-foot home is where photos were shot for both of Lee’s cookbooks. The kitchen, which has been used for fab dinner parties, includes a six-burner Wolf stove and wine storage. The home also has a pool installed by the previous owner, artist and Johnson & Johnson heir Seward Johnson.
Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Dolly Lenz has the listing.
Ox tale
Jeffrey Loria, the art-dealing owner of the Florida Marlins, has reeled in a huge chunk of the late Howard Gittis’ Southampton estate on Ox Pasture Lane. The estate was divided into three portions and sold for a combined $38.5 million to Loria and designer Tory Burch.
While Burch bought a seven-bedroom mansion on 6 acres for $16 million, Loria spent even more just on vacant land. He paid $16.5 million for 7.4 acres that are an extension of his existing back yard on Ox Pasture Lane, which will prevent others from building anything next to his home. We hear he’s thinking about creating a sculpture garden (his collection includes pieces by Picasso and Henry Moore) there. Loria also spent $6 million for a carriage house on an additional 6 acres.
While spending $22.5 million on land and a carriage house might seem like a lot, Loria could potentially subdivide it into lots (at 2 or 3 acres apiece) that might be worth $8 million to $10 million each on that part of the tree-lined “estate section” of Southampton.
The $31M fixer-upper
Looks like the Russian family who walked away from a deal to buy an $18.5 million, 5,500-square-foot penthouse at the Trump International Hotel and Tower might want to drown its sorrows in vodka.
We previously reported that the family, whose name has been hidden under a limited liability company, abandoned their 10 percent deposit on the foreclosed condo (once owned by financially challenged Italian film producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori) because they were worried about the expense of renovating the place. But yesterday, it was auctioned off for more than $31 million, with a different limited liability company beating four other pre-qualified buyers in a final round of bidding.
Sources say the winning bidder might be connected with Malaysian party boy Jho Low. The penthouse is a serious-fixer upper. A source says it is “totally gutted” and a full renovation could cost $10 million.
Moore is Mews worthy
It’s hard to take the glamour out of a famous, fabulous redhead. Even incognito, hidden under a baseball cap and a puffer coat, Julianne Moore was still spotted by our spies one recent early morning at the Soho Mews building.
Moore, who has listed her six-bedroom West Village townhouse for $11.995 million, was at the new condo development on West Broadway to look at two townhouse units priced around $5 million to $5.5 million. She toured the residences like a true New Yorker — alone, with no entourage or handlers in sight.
Developer Albert Laboz recently told The Post that Soho Mews has been closing on units for more than $1,900 per square foot. But prices in the building overall have dropped 12 to 15 percent.