Edited by: TJVNews.com
As the real estate market in New York City and beyond continues to crawl out of the pandemic mode; sales of some luxury, high end apartments in the city’s best areas are finding buyers after the market has tumbled over the last two years.
A recent report in the New York Times indicated that award winning musician John Legend and model-wife Chrissy Teigen have unloaded their Manhattan penthouses.
Legend is the recipient of the prestigious EGOT classification which means that he has won an Emmy award, a Grammy award, an Oscar statue and a Tony award. As a matter of fact, Legend has won 12 Grammy awards for his musical contributions.
The couple call Beverly Hills their home which they share with their two young children, according to the report.
The apartments that Legend and Teigen sold were located on both the fifth and sixth floors of a building in the NoLIta section of Manhattan. The building at 372 Broome Street between Mott and Mulberry Street has a great deal of history attached to it and the Times reported that the edifice, at one time, way back when, housed a manufacturer of horse carriages. Definitely a late 19th or early 20th century feel to it.
The Times reported that the Legend/Teigen domiciles were purchased in 2018 and 2020. The couple’s intent was to combine the penthouses into one massive and super luxurious duplex pad. These plans, however, never came to fruition. For whatever their reasons were, the couple decided to unload this real estate in the Big Apple.
While the duo did not turn a profit on the penthouses, the NYT indicated that they got “close” to the price that they initially purchased them for.
The apartments include outdoor space (which is essential to any city dweller) as well as boasting hardwood floors, super high ceilings, oversize windows as well as three bedrooms each, according to the report. The palatial apartments were sold to separate buyers and the couple brought in $16.75 million. The Times also reported that they were placed on the real estate market together for $18 million.
The buyer of the sixth floor apartment which the couple had purchased first is the limited liability company Central Perk, as was reported by the Times. The company plunked down $9.25 million for this penthouse that faces south. According to the NYT report, the penthouse boasts “2,610 square feet, with three bathrooms and an airy great room with a gas fireplace, plus three Juliet balconies. There’s also an amazing 1,800-square-foot rooftop terrace, landscaped and irrigated, that’s roomy enough for some large musical soirees.”
The north end penthouse which the Legend/Teigen team purchased in 2020 sold for $7.5 million and the lucky new buyer has been identified as Regina Phalange LLC.
The Times reported that the apartment measures approximately 1600 square feet and has a roof terrace for socializing. Moreover, custom cabinetry and a skylight come with the bedroom suite, as well as two full bathrooms and two powder rooms. Not a bad deal at all!
In a related development, in May 2021, the Jewish Voice reported Bloomingdale’s department store had decided to cancel a deal with model, television personality and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen at the 11th hour due to new revelations about cyberbullying that she allegedly engaged in.
The report on Page Six of the New York Post indicated that before the toxic press about Teigen emerged, Bloomingdale’s was only hours away from signing a lucrative contract with Teigen that would have featured her new cookware line known as “Cravings by Chrissy.”
What caused this scandal to take on a new life were allegations made by model Courtney Stodden, according to the Post report in May 2021. Stodden, 26, (uses gender neutral pronouns to describe themselves) has revealed that when they were only 16 years old, Teigen had encouraged Stodden her to commit suicide in private Twitter messages.
The Post reported that Stodden told the Daily Beast in an interview last year that Teigen publicly tweeted messages to them that included such hateful rhetoric as: “I hate you,” “my Friday fantasy: you. Dirt nap” and “go. To sleep. forever.” They also revealed that the Sports Illustrated cover model privately messaged them telling them to kill themselves. “Things like, ‘I can’t wait for you to die,’” Stodden told the Daily Beast.
