–Master dealmaker Christine Wasserstein once sold her $27.5 million place at 1030 Fifth Avenue in a single fateful week in May 2008. Now, she has worked her magic as a buyer. The pyschoanalyst, who got her old apartment in her divorce from deceased New York publisher Bruce Wasserstein, has bought a place just next door, Read More
Princess Firyal has finally gotten control of her late companion Lionel Pincus’s Pierre duplex, reported The Times this weekend. According to the paper:
Jesse Derris, a spokesman for Princess Firyal, said that she was still mourning the death of Mr. Pincus and had not given any thought to what to do with the Read More
Lionel Pincus, founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, died Saturday night at age 78. He had been legally incapacitated since a stroke three years ago, leaving his sons and his longtime companion (a Jordanian princess, no less) in an ugly fight over his estate.
Max Abelson wrote about the Read More
On Nov. 3, 2003, Lionel Pincus was standing in a tuxedo in the New York Public Library’s Astor Hall. It was the Library Lions gala, and everything was lovely. The venture capitalist’s longtime companion, Princess Firyal of Jordan, was there, and so were Lord Conrad Black, Veronica Hearst and Henry Louis Gates. Trumpets called guests Read More
Unreal Estate breaks down the long-suffering duplex at the top of the Pierre. Read More
Tuesday happens to be the 500th day that the ailing finance titan Lionel Pincus’ $35 million, 7,000-square-foot, 14-room duplex in the Pierre has been on the market, and so Wednesday’s Observer takes a long, hard gander at its insanely great floor plan.
But Tuesday has turned out to be something a lot more special: Read More
