Andrew Rosen closes deal on Greenwich Village penthouse.

While it was rumored earlier this year that Theory honcho Andrew Rosen was paying more than $12.5 million for a four-bedroom penthouse at the St. Vincent condo conversion 130 West 12th Street, now there's proof. City records show that Mr. Rosen paid $13 million, a bit of a price bump over the $12.8 million that the sponsor unit was asking.

The building has a way of getting buyers to pay more than the retail value. Rosie O'Donnell also plunked down a little extra cash for her duplex penthouse, paying $50,000 above the sticker price. Maybe Mr. Rosen should bring on Stribling brokers Alexa Lambert and Sean Turner to help shill his company's clothes.

The garmento's new living room.

Details on Mr. Rosen's new four-bedroom, 3.5-bath home are scarce, given Stribling's super-generic listing. But it would appear to be the 3,800-square-foot, floor-through uber-penthouse, if we may call it that. Said penthouse boats 2,200-square feet of wrap-around terraces and wood-burning fireplaces in the living and dining rooms. Mr. Rosen is relocating from a 49th-floor duplex in Columbus Circle.

Interiors, if Mr. Rosen chooses to keep them, are by Cook + Fox Architects, but we certainly expect that he'll want to put his personal stamp on the space. He is, after all, the macher who is creating the closest thing America has to luxury empires like LVMH or Gucci, if you take Anna Wintour's word for it.

Alas, even with all that terrace space, we don't suppose Mr. Rosen will be able to stable any of the two dozen race horses he owns.  At least he can compare penthouses with fellow rag trader and friend Mickey Drexler, who snapped up a Tribeca "mansion in the sky" earlier this year.

kvelsey@observer.com

Every Long Island girl's dream: a Manhattanite at last.

After years of enjoying the suburban life in Nyack, Rosie O’Donnell is finally moving to Manhattan, having closed on a four-bedroom, three-bath duplex penthouse at 130 West 12th Street.

The sale was rumored earlier this summer in the Post, and lo it was real and has finally closed, with Ms. O’Donnell plunking down $8 million for the Greenwich Village spread in one of St. Vincent’s former hospital buildings. The Rudin Family, which handled the condo conversion, was only asking $7.95 million, but in her exuberance, Ms. O’Donnell apparently dropped $50,000 to make it a nice even number.

In any event, Greenwich Village residents should ready themselves for yet another celebrity strolling their sidewalks. Time to hone your totally nonchalant expressions, guys! But at least they won’t need to pretend not to notice the other celebrities who looked but did not ultimately buy in the building—Blake Lively and Cameron Diaz among them.

The penthouse, listed with Stribling’s Sean Turner, is relatively modest by penthouse standards at just over 3,000-square-feet, although it does have “a large and very private terrace” with views to both the north and south (what constitutes a very private terrace, we don’t know, but we don’t suppose we ever will. It is very private, after all). The listing also boasts that you can see the Empire State building from the kitchen. Alas, all the listing photos appear to be from a lower model unit, so we won’t be able to check out Ms. O’Donnell’s view of the Empire State building.

Among the other features are a big chef’s kitchen—a good place for Ms. O’Donnell to tackle the new healthy eating regime that she’s tweeted enthusiastically about—and a master bedroom suite with a windowed walk-in closet and a master bath.

kvelsey@observer.com