The apartment that belonged to the late Joan Rivers has hit the market for $28 million, or N5. 6 billion.
Forbes reports
Rivers’ 11-room condominium triplex on 62nd street just off Fifth Avenue features over-the-top decor and double-height ceilings painted to resemble a blue sky with puffy clouds. Constructed in 1903, the limestone building was originally a lavish single-family mansion built for John R. Drexel and his wife, the socialite Alice Troth Drexel. The architect was Horace Trumbauer. The 42-foot-wide, seven-story mansion was converted to apartments in the 1930s; Ernest Hemingway lived for many years in one.
Rivers’ 5,100-square-foot penthouse contains a ballroom and adjacent music room, both with 23-foot ceilings, antique boisserie paneling, and fireplaces (the apartment has five fireplaces, in total). Next to the music room is a dining room that opens onto a south-facing terrace. The library boasts wood paneling and faces south and west, with views of Central Park.
The apartment’s second floor leads to a master suite that also features Central Park views. A separate, adjacent two-bedroom and two-bath guest quarters contains its own large living room, fireplace, and eat-in kitchen. In total, there are four bedrooms and four-and-a-half baths.
Rivers first listed the apartment in 2009. That year, former Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi reportedly called her broker and offered to rent it for $200,000 a week . Rivers said she would give half the money to Lockerbie, Scotland–Gadhafi was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing–and use the other half to have an exterminator come and clean the apartment when he was done.
Leighton Candler of Corcoran Group Real Estate has the listing.
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