Made within the shades: An residence contained in the constructing the e'er-bespectacled Jackie O as soon as referred to as house is itemizing.
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A seventh- and eighth-floor duplex at 1040 Fifth Ave. has hit the marketplace for $7.99 million.
The stately limestone constructing, itemizing for the primary time in almost half a century, was designed by Rosario Candela in 1930 and has fairly the historical past.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis purchased its Fifteenth-floor penthouse shortly after her husband, Pres. John F. Kennedy, was assassinated, and lived there till her loss of life in 1994.
This new itemizing is a 10-room unfold with three bedrooms, 4½ baths and a $11,747 month-to-month upkeep price.
It opens to a marble-floored central gallery that results in formal entertaining rooms.
A dramatic, curved staircase with a wrought-iron handrail results in three bedrooms on the eighth flooring.
Particulars all through the residence embrace herringbone flooring, excessive ceilings, a wood-paneled library, woodburning fireplaces and Central Park views.
There’s additionally a big eating room, pantry and windowed eat-in kitchen, plus a second again staircase.
Two workers rooms might additionally convert right into a nursery, residence workplace or visitor room. Oh, there’s no financing allowed. Among the most iconic photographs of Jackie had been taken by a paparazzo, Ron Galella, exterior the constructing — till Jackie acquired a restraining order towards him.
After Jackie’s loss of life, the penthouse was purchased by the late David Koch, billionaire funder of right-wing organizations and Large Apple cultural establishments, and his spouse Julia, who's at present the richest lady in New York Metropolis.
However by 2010 the Kochs had moved right into a duplex at 740 Park Ave. and bought the 1040 penthouse to Glenn Dubin — a rich social and enterprise pal of pedophilic abuser Jeffrey Epstein — and Eva Andersson-Dubin, a health care provider and former Miss Sweden who had been Epstein’s girlfriend and testified on behalf of Ghislaine Maxwell at her latest trial, when she was convicted on intercourse trafficking associated costs.
The itemizing brokers are Paul and Carolyn Zweben, of Douglas Elliman.
The forty eighth Annual Kips Bay Decorator Present Home is coming again to New York this spring after a two-year pandemic hiatus — and the Kips Bay Boys & Ladies Membership continues to be in quest of a townhouse.
Brokers and builders, take observe.
The 2018 Present Home bought for $40 million money after holding the occasion — purchased by Julia Koch.
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