Edgar Bronfman
Bronfman Junior Strikes Again! Buys Muppets Mansion for $28.5 M.
In April, when Leslie and Brian Brille, the global head of investment banking for Bank of America, put their East 69th Street mansion on the market for $32 million, only three years after they bought it from Jim Henson’s estate for $12.4 million, this reporter wondered about fickleness.
“He decided,” broker Carrie Chiang said about the banker earlier this year, “he wants a doorman.”
In retrospect, it was unfair of The Observer to even bring up fickleness, considering that the house has been bought up by a couple who have reached an entirely new, genuinely awesome, word-redefining level of picky, vacillating indecisiveness. read more »
Never Mind! Edgar Bronfman Selling 1040 Fifth Co-op Week After Buying It, Wants $24 M.
It’s hard not to be both awed and annoyed that Seagram liquor heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. bought his East 64th Street townhouse in 1994 for $4.375 million, and sold it to his Warner Music Group colleague Len Blavatnik, the oil magnate, for $50 million last October. Not considering the cost of his four-year gut job, Mr. Bronfman unloaded the place for well over 11.4 times what he paid.
Now he’s trying to flip again, though for a slightly more modest profit. On Jan. read more »
It Was The Summer of Big Deals!
The summer is typically a time when news slows down to a snail’s pace. People (including reporters) split for the beach and opt for the latest Pat Conroy novel rather than a daily read of the newspaper.
But from the standpoint of Manhattan residential real estate, the summer of 2007 was one of the most newsworthy on record.
Let us recap. read more »
Bronfman Gets $50 M.–Plus for East Side Townhouse
It will be only the second townhouse in New York City history to break the $50 million mark. read more »
The Battle of Bronfman
Report: Edgar Bronfman Sr. Steps Down from Post at World Jewish Congress
Following months of turmoil, Seagram’s heir Edgar Bronfman Sr. has stepped down as president of the World Jewish Congress, a post he occupied for nearly 30 years, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports.
In March, following a prolonged investigation into the organization’s activities by the New York State Attorney General’s office, Mr. read more »
Music Maven Takes Bloomberg Building Penthouse for $27 M.; Emboldened Bronfman Ups Ante by $3 M.; Hensons Sell for $12.4 M.
East Side Sell-Off
The Greedy Mr. Ford
The $75 M. Stoop Sale
Ted Kheel Explains Why He Left Two Deep Holes in the Ground on East 64th Street.
Mr. Bronfman's Venezuelan wife, Clarissa Alcock, is once again pregnant...
