EMBATTLED blueblooded widow Veronica Hearst has gotten a (Citizen) Kane’s ransom for her Upper East Side co-op.
Sources with knowledge of the sale say she’s just closed on two apartments at 4 E. 66th St. for $36.5 million, significantly better than the reported sales price of “around $30 million.”
The main apartment in the white-glove co-op building has six bedrooms and 6½ baths in 7,200 square feet. It has fireplaces in the large living room, library and formal dining room. The master bedroom suite features a huge dressing room and yet another fireplace.
Also included is a 800-square-foot one-bedroom staff apartment on another floor.
The Dutch-born socialite bought the main apartment 20 years ago – just two months before marrying the fabulously wealthy publishing heir Randolph Hearst. But after Randolph’s death in 2000, it was revealed that he left Veronica with little more than hefty mortgages totaling $45 million.
Earlier this year, her 52-room oceanfront mansion in Manalapan, Fla., was sold in a foreclosure auction for $22 million, well below the $27 million asking price.
Supreme price hike
Diana Ross is now looking to raise the price of her Sherry-Netherland hotel apartment.
Sources tell us that the Supremes diva is planning to renovate her seven-room residence and raise its price from $9 million to $11 million sometime after Labor Day.
Included in the park-fronting full-floor apartment with views in all directions are three bedrooms, three full bathrooms, a 29-foot living room, a formal dining room, a maid’s room, high ceilings and a private elevator landing on one of the building’s top floors.
Also featured is twice-daily maid service and room service from the building’s famed Harry Cipriani restaurant.
Her Sotheby’s listing broker, Roger Erickson, could not be reached.