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Joan Rivers Relists Ridiculous Apartment

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By Elise Knutsen 1/16/12 12:43pm
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    Although Joan Rivers’s Versailles-inspired apartment at 1 East 62nd Street didn’t sell the last time it hit the market, The Queen of Mean has just put her fiercest foot forward, re-listing the place with a significant price hike. Although it flopped in 2009 with a $25 million ask, Ms. Rivers has put the place back on the market, this time hoping for $29 million, Curbed reports.

    Prospective buyers with even one iota of taste, however, know that this place needs to be gut renovated: the leopard-print carpets rolled up and burned, the gaudy gilded moldings stripped to evoke something less…. Joan Riversy. Like Ms. Rivers herself, we think this place needs something quite the opposite of a facelift.

     

  • Back Forward A sky-inspired ceiling framed with gilded moldings? Off with her head!

    A sky-inspired ceiling framed with gilded moldings? Off with her head!

  • Back Forward Not quite les jardins du chateau de Versailles, but it will suffice for New York.

    Not quite les jardins du chateau de Versailles, but it will suffice for New York.

  • Back Forward How many mirros are in this picture? If we were Ms. Rivers, we're not entierly sure we'd want to many reflectors around.

    How many mirros are in this picture? If we were Ms. Rivers, we're not entierly sure we'd want to many reflectors around.

  • Back Forward Call the fashion police on that leopard-print rung. Also, is that an ivory tusk on the mantle?

    Call the fashion police on that leopard-print rung. Also, is that an ivory tusk on the mantle?

  • Back Forward So many shiny things!

    So many shiny things!

  • Back Quite a grand escalier, if we do say so.

    Quite a grand escalier, if we do say so.

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  1. Richard says:
    February 24, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    You are a complete jackass!  The apartment is in exquisite taste……..something about which you obviously know nothing!

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