Real Estate

Annie Leibovitz buys $11.25M Upper West Side apartment

This famous fotog sure has champagne taste — but maybe she should put her high-spending ways on ice.

Financially challenged shutterbug Annie Leibovitz is still in debt — but that hasn’t stopped her from plunking down a hefty $11.25 million on a smashing Upper West Side apartment in a building that uber-wealthy celebs have called home.

The photographer once owed as much as $24 million to creditors — and was at risk of losing rights to her own archives in order to satisfy her creditors.

Her finances got better when she sold her Civil War-era townhouse compound in Greenwich Village to presidential niece Lauren Bush Lauren and her husband, David Lauren, for $28.5 million, as The Post exclusively reported.

Using this logic, a move to an $11 million home is called “downsizing,” a source said.

“She’s made great progress on reducing her debt,” the source said. “Moving from a $30 million home to an $11 million home is called downsizing. She is being responsible — and she continues to do great work at the highest levels.”

Leibovitz’s new neighbors will include Robert De Niro and his wife, Grace Hightower, although they are living elsewhere while their home is being renovated.

Past residents of the building include Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler.

The talented Leibovitz is as famous for her lavish lifestyle as she is for her photographs and has often lived larger than her means: Decades ago, she had trouble obtaining an American Express card even as she was shooting ads for American Express, according to press reports.

Leibovitz’s fancy unit was originally asking $14.5 million.

Leibovitz’s new home is a three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath duplex. Built in 1910 and known as the Brentmore, the 12-story building at 88 Central Park West comes with its own courtyard.

The co-op features a formal dining room with French doors that open to a large living room, with sweeping views of Central Park West and Central Park South.

There’s also an eat-in chef’s kitchen with Central Park views, a pantry, and a fourth bedroom.

A grand staircase leads to the private quarters upstairs — a corner master bedroom with park views and two more bedrooms.

The pre-war co-op has soaring ceilings, inlaid hardwood floors and traditional moldings.

A spokesperson for Leibovitz declined to comment.