Crime pays: Society scammer Dina Wein Reis (inset) has gone from confinement within the massive home to promoting one at 25 Riverside Drive.
Screenshot through Google Earth; Steven Hirsch
A palatial Beaux-Arts mansion on the Higher West Aspect with a shady previous has hit the marketplace for $65 million.
The vendor is a belief benefitting Dina Wein Reis, a society scammer often called the “$100 million lady” who moved from the mansion to the slammer after some convoluted “Inventing Anna”-style shenanigans.
Wein Reis purchased the townhouse together with her husband David for $2.15 million in 1996. (He was born David Ruiz, however modified his identify to Reis — whereas Wein Reis had a dozen aliases, The Submit reported greater than a decade in the past.)
In 2011, Wein Reis pled responsible to a federal cost of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, after duping firms out of tens of millions of dollars, The Submit reported on the time.
Much more extraordinary, the mansion performed a key function within the fraud. Wein Reis was accused of wining and eating Fortune 500 firm CEOs on the fancy brownstone below the guise of on the lookout for a brand new prime exec. The CEOs have been then requested to supply discounted items for use as samples or promotional packages to get their merchandise right into a retail community.
As a substitute, she bought the merchandise at wholesale costs. The huge scan netted her $100 million in private wealth, a $35 million artwork assortment and 6 properties — removed from her humble beginnings in Brooklyn.
Wein Reis was launched from jail in 2014 and ordered to pay $7 million in restitution plus $1 million in fines. Whereas she was in jail, the mansion was floated as a $75,000 a month rental in 2013.
Final yr, the ex-con reportedly paid an ex-federal prosecutor, Brett Tolman, $20,000 to attempt to get her sentence commuted — which might have launched her from having to pay the federal government the restitution cash. (Tolman helped get Jared Kushner’s dad, Charles, pardoned for tax evasion, witness tampering and marketing campaign finance violations.) She declined to remark at press time.
The beautiful, eight-bedroom mansion at 25 Riverside Drive and seventy fifth Road spans 12,000 sq. ft. It comes with a glass conservatory and a terrace that may seat 100 individuals for dinner — together with pear bushes within the backyard.
However though the mansion is gorgeous, its hefty price ticket — out of whack with the remainder of the ‘hood — is elevating eyebrows amongst New York Metropolis actual property aficionados.
“The magnificent residence is really a commanding presence anchoring the southern finish of Riverside Drive, and the Beaux-Arts fashion blends in completely with the most effective of the Higher West Aspect. The pricing is wealthy, but it surely solely takes one purchaser who needs this dimension and scale to name residence,” mentioned prime dealer Dolly Lenz.
Exterior particulars of the 34-foot-wide townhouse give it a Parisian really feel whereas its three exposures seize views from the Hudson River to Riverside Park. Authentic particulars embody coffered cork-lined ceilings on the “entertaining” ground and Tiffany and La Farge stained glass doorways to the fourth-floor research.
The seven-floor residence options 12- to 14-foot ceilings, six fireplaces, three kitchens and an elevator to all seven flooring — together with 70 “outsized and curved” home windows, and out of doors terraces on 4 of the seven flooring, in line with the itemizing, which was first reported within the Wall Road Journal.
There’s additionally a health club, mahogany theater, wine cellar and residential workplace. The Nineteenth-century residence was constructed by C.P.H. Gilbert. Sotheby’s Elizabeth Pattern and Brenda Powers have the itemizing.
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