Live like Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany — for less

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany’s former Tribeca penthouse has been price-slashed to $10.8 million — down from its $12 million ask earlier this 12 months. The stylish, 4,000-square-foot residence at 288 West St. comes with 4 bedrooms, 2½ baths and a 1,280-square-foot terrace with a sauna.

Connelly just lately performed Tom Cruise’s love curiosity, Penny Benjamin, in “Prime Gun: Maverick,” whereas Bettany was simply noticed dressed up like pop-art icon Andy Warhol together with Jeremy Pope as Basquiat whereas filming scenes for “The Collaboration” in Boston.

Bettany may even be co-starring with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in “Right here,” based mostly on a graphic novel’s odyssey by means of time and reminiscence.

Connelly and Bettany sold this home in 2008.
Connelly and Bettany bought this residence in 2008.
Mike Coppola
The space features wall-to-wall bookshelves and lots of space for lounging.
The area options wall-to-wall bookshelves and many area for lounging.
Evan Joseph / Scott Wintrow for Sotheby's Worldwide Realty
A view from the dining area into the living area.
A view from the eating space into the residing space.
Evan Joseph / Scott Wintrow for Sotheby's Worldwide Realty

Connelly has all the time had an eye fixed for trophy actual property. One other one in every of their former properties, a limestone Gilded Age mansion at 17 Prospect Park West, simply bought for $11.7 million, which was much less that the sellers paid in 2015 to purchase it. (Connelly and Bettany have been the actual winners in that transaction as Brooklyn actual property pioneers. They paid $3.7 million for the property in 2003, then bought it for $8.45 million in 2008.) 

The Tribeca penthouse contains particulars like a woodburning range within the library, a 45-foot-wide front room, arched manufacturing unit home windows, customized cabinets and a double-height skylit chef’s kitchen. There are additionally window partitions, a number of skylights and elegant Hudson River views. Stairs lead from the full-floor residence to a sunroom overlooking town, which ends up in the terrace.

The itemizing dealer is Debbie Korb of Sotheby’s.

The chef's kitchen.
The chef’s kitchen.
Evan Joseph / Scott Wintrow for Sotheby's Worldwide Realty
Inside one of the bedrooms.
Inside one of many bedrooms.
Evan Joseph / Scott Wintrow for Sotheby's Worldwide Realty
The listing additionally features a lush outdoor hangout.
The itemizing moreover contains a lush outside hangout.
Evan Joseph / Scott Wintrow for Sotheby's Worldwide Realty

The vendor — Gimme can reveal — is Billy Hult, who purchased it from Connelly and Bettany for $6.99 million in 2008. Hult’s ex is Allison Gollust, who's at present relationship Jeff Zucker, the previous head of CNN Worldwide who resigned early this 12 months after not disclosing his “consensual relationship” with Gollust. A former government vp and chief advertising officer at CNN, Gollust additionally resigned in February following a probe that discovered her in violation of firm insurance policies. She had beforehand labored for embattled former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

In the meantime, Hult, who heads the worldwide monetary buying and selling firm Tradeweb Markets, simply purchased a $13 million Park Ave. pad along with his present partner, Dana Robust.

That Tenth-floor residence, at 770 Park Ave. at 73rd St., is in a basic Rosario Candela-designed constructing. It comes with 4 bedrooms and 4½ baths, and was final asking $13.5 million. The nine-room condo, designed by architect David Kleinberg, options excessive ceilings, a number of pure gentle, woodburning fireplaces — and a proper eating room, a nook front room, a media room and a chef’s kitchen with a breakfast banquette.

There’s additionally a third-floor employees room that could possibly be transformed into a house workplace or a non-public gymnasium.

A gallery connects the general public rooms by means of three pairs of floor-to-ceiling lacquered French doorways. The principle bed room has a marble bathtub with a steam bathe and heated flooring.

The itemizing dealer was Mary L. Fitzgibbons of Brown Harris Stevens.

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