As The Observer—and every other news outlet—has been scrambling to report in detail, the city is abuzz over the high-profile indictment and arrests of figures in an art-world money laundering scheme involving seven-figure card games, international sports betting rings and mixed martial arts fighters who played the Rocky Balboa role of Read More
Tracey Emin’s Return
Last week Monday, which was Halloween, Tracey Emin’s new drawings were already in place in her gallery, Lehmann Maupin. But her new neon work was still being manufactured, though the exhibition would open on Saturday night. One piece, Sleeping with You, was being modeled from a long, jagged line that she had Read More
Banker Jaqui Safra, the nephew of the late billionaire banker Edmond Safra, and his longtime girlfriend, former Woody Allen producer Jean Doumanian, have just entered the Upper East Side’s newest elite.
They’ve put their 50-foot-wide limestone mansion at 4 East 75th Street on the market—quietly—for $50 million.
“Quietly” means you won’t find a listing for Read More
Lily Safra has thrown in the towel on her nearly three-year-long push to sell her unfinished ninth-floor condo at 838 Fifth Avenue, real-estate sources close to the proceedings said. According to sources, Ms. Safra—the widow of late banking magnate Edmond Safra, who died when a fire swept through his Monte Carlo duplex penthouse in December Read More
SIDNEY KIMMEL SECURES CONDO AT 50 C.P.S. FOR $29 MILLLION There are six full-floor apartments still up for grabs atop the new Ritz-Carlton Hotel at 50 Central Park South. They start at $21 million and 5,800 square feet, but so far, no one seems to be getting nervous–least of all Sidney Kimmel.
Mr. Kimmel, the Read More
1895 HOUSE WILL GET $9.5 MILLION IF SALE BEATS JAN. 1 DEADLINE Jean Doumanian and her longtime boyfriend, Jaqui Safra, have sold the legendary limestone townhouse at 1 East 94th Street that Mr. Safra has owned for about 15 years. The buyer agreed to pay $9.5 million for the home where architect Cass Gilbert lived Read More
