BEAUTY: Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly may have lived in digraced Peter Bacanovic’s on-the-market townhouse. (
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Call it Breakfast with Criminals.
An ex-con is trying to sell a townhouse whose exterior appeared in the iconic and beloved film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” — for $5.85 million.
In the movie, Audrey Hepburn played gorgeous Holly Golightly, who lived off the money of older men.
George Peppard played a handsome writer who lived off the money older women gave him.
They met when Peppard moved into the townhouse where Hepburn lived — 169 E. 71st St.
Today that townhouse is owned by Peter Bacanovic, a disgraced former Merrill Lynch broker who made headlines when he was convicted in the insider-trading scandal that sent Martha Stewart out of her mansions and into the Big House.
Bacanovic spent five months in the slammer for his role in the scandal.
Now Bacanovic is trying to sell the townhouse, which he bought for $1.88 million in 2000.
Bacanovic has claimed through his broker that part of the movie was filmed inside the townhouse.
However, movie Web sites say that the exterior of the townhouse made it into the film but that all interiors were shot on the sets of Hollywood studios.
“It is a very small townhouse — too small for many buyers at that price,” one broker told The Post. “You couldn’t fit a crew through that door. You can’t film in small houses. You need a lot of room to maneuver the cameras and that townhouse simply isn’t big enough.”
The 3,320-square-foot home is divided into two units.
Altogether, it has four bedrooms and six baths, according to Streeteasy.com. Sources said it would need millions of dollars to renovate it back into a single, trophy-style residence.
In the movie, the townhouse is not particularly fancy, and it is populated by colorful characters who struggle to pay the rent.
Hepburn, as Holly, was always losing her keys and waking up her neighbor, played by Mickey Rooney.
The late Truman Capote wrote “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” His townhouse, in Brooklyn, is still for sale, too.