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<p>Music lovers around the world may never forgive <strong>Diana Meltzer</strong> for foisting Christian rock band Creed on them, but the ex-model laughed all the way to the bank after signing the multi-platinum band. Now, she's triumphed again, having just unloaded her late ex-husband's duplex penthouse at <strong>944 Park Avenue</strong> for a cool <strong>$8.15 million</strong>, according to city records.</p>
<p>We can see that Ms. Meltzer wasn't just putting on a brave face when she commented on the news that her ex-husband of thirteen years, Alan Meltzer, left $1.5 million to his doorman and chauffeur. "I'm doing fine. I could care less!" <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/good_will_to_driver_QpilMYPRNfpxAFhTVvlzNM#ixzz1kxA6Ar9L">she told the New York<em> Post.</em></a> "If he wants to give it to the bums, he can give it to the bums," she continued, with all the poise of a trashed teenager at a Drowning Pool show, a metal band she signed when she was an A&amp;R exec at Wind-up Records, her ex's label. "He could fuck a nun. I couldn’t give a shit. He can give his money to whoever he wants. We’re divorced. The man is dead."<!--more--></p>
<p>The buyer of the penthouse was listed on city records only as <strong>12B Riverside East Inc.</strong>, and <strong>Yigal Yedidsion</strong> at the Real Estate Investors Group, who had the listing, was tight-lipped about the buyer's identity.</p>
<p>He did, however, say that the new owner would likely undertake a gut renovation. We're not sure anybody will miss the cheap arched windows looking out onto the 2,350-square foot outdoor space (almost as spacious as the 2,738-square foot interior, set up as a more-than-roomy two-bedroom), which would seem more at home in an exurban McMansion than a penthouse on Park Avenue between 81st and 82nd streets, though the fireplace mantle does look like it might be worth keeping around.</p>
<p>The listing sat on the market for about a year and a half, Mr. Yedidsion told <em>The Observer</em>, and finally sold at a nearly a third off of the ambitious $12 million that the brokers at Douglas Elliman originally priced it at back in 2011.</p>
<p>Still, the eventual selling price was up substantially from the $3 million that Mr. Meltzer paid for the pad back in 1995. In the words of Creed, "Can you take me higher?"</p>
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<p>Music lovers around the world may never forgive <strong>Diana Meltzer</strong> for foisting Christian rock band Creed on them, but the ex-model laughed all the way to the bank after signing the multi-platinum band. Now, she's triumphed again, having just unloaded her late ex-husband's duplex penthouse at <strong>944 Park Avenue</strong> for a cool <strong>$8.15 million</strong>, according to city records.</p>
<p>We can see that Ms. Meltzer wasn't just putting on a brave face when she commented on the news that her ex-husband of thirteen years, Alan Meltzer, left $1.5 million to his doorman and chauffeur. "I'm doing fine. I could care less!" <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/good_will_to_driver_QpilMYPRNfpxAFhTVvlzNM#ixzz1kxA6Ar9L">she told the New York<em> Post.</em></a> "If he wants to give it to the bums, he can give it to the bums," she continued, with all the poise of a trashed teenager at a Drowning Pool show, a metal band she signed when she was an A&amp;R exec at Wind-up Records, her ex's label. "He could fuck a nun. I couldn’t give a shit. He can give his money to whoever he wants. We’re divorced. The man is dead."<!--more--></p>
<p>The buyer of the penthouse was listed on city records only as <strong>12B Riverside East Inc.</strong>, and <strong>Yigal Yedidsion</strong> at the Real Estate Investors Group, who had the listing, was tight-lipped about the buyer's identity.</p>
<p>He did, however, say that the new owner would likely undertake a gut renovation. We're not sure anybody will miss the cheap arched windows looking out onto the 2,350-square foot outdoor space (almost as spacious as the 2,738-square foot interior, set up as a more-than-roomy two-bedroom), which would seem more at home in an exurban McMansion than a penthouse on Park Avenue between 81st and 82nd streets, though the fireplace mantle does look like it might be worth keeping around.</p>
<p>The listing sat on the market for about a year and a half, Mr. Yedidsion told <em>The Observer</em>, and finally sold at a nearly a third off of the ambitious $12 million that the brokers at Douglas Elliman originally priced it at back in 2011.</p>
<p>Still, the eventual selling price was up substantially from the $3 million that Mr. Meltzer paid for the pad back in 1995. In the words of Creed, "Can you take me higher?"</p>
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