Fresh off his $2.4 billion purchase of IMG Worldwide, Ari Emanuel, the Hollywood mogul and inspiration behind “Entourage’s” foul-mouthed Ari Gold character, has been spotted apartment hunting in New York.
One place he checked out was the Mark hotel. No, not the $60 million penthouse — this is a pied-a-terre, after all.
Instead, the über-agent viewed a few units in the building, including a $17.5 million five-bedroom, five-plus-bathroom unit at the historic 1927 hotel, at 25 E. 77th St. Jean-Georges Vongerichten has a celebrity favorite restaurant in the hotel.
Emanuel’s brothers remain in other cities. Rahm worked as President Obama’s chief of staff before becoming mayor of Chicago, while Ezekiel is a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health in DC.
Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell, William Morris Endeavor co-CEOs, were in town in February for Fashion Week.
We hear . . .
That Douglas Elliman CEO Dottie Herman penned a chapter in the book “Real: A Path to Passion, Purpose, and profits in Real Estate” . . . that Rosie O’Donnell changed brokers and dropped the price of her Greenwich Village penthouse. She bought it for $8.09 million, above the $7.95 million ask, in 2012, then listed it for $10.95 million with Douglas Elliman’s Douglas Mangone. Now listed with Brown Harris Stevens’ Linda and Dennis Stillwell, it was asking $9.95 million in January — down to $9.5 million last month . . . that former Esprit exec Jurgen Friedrich recently chopped his Hamptons summer rental at 160 Ox Pasture Road in Southampton from $1 million to $950,000, from Memorial Day through Labor Day. It is also for sale for $45 million with Douglas Elliman’s Michaela Keszler. Friedrich, who bought the 18,000-square-foot home for $8.5 million in 2002, originally listed it for $59.5 million in 2008. The Southampton 12-bedroom manse on 10 acres comes with an indoor and outdoor pool, grass tennis court and four car garage . . . that top brokers Mark Griffith and Cindy Scholz have left Citi Habitats to join Urban Compass.