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Gisele Finds a Buyer; JetBlue CEO Sells

cityfile · 10/16/09 07:45AM

• After more than two years on the market, Gisele Bundchen has finally found a buyer for her triplex penthouse at 347 West 11th Street. The supermodel didn't make out nearly as well as she'd been hoping when she first put the 1,700-square-foot apartment up for sale. Originally priced at $10.9 million in Sept. 2007, the pad was listed for $4.5 million when it went into contract last week. Hopefully she'll have better luck with the Barrow Street townhouse that she wants to sell. It's still on the market for $13.95 million. [WSJ, PDE]
• Dave Barger, the CEO of JetBlue, has taken a loss on the sale of his 11th-floor apartment at The Plaza. The two-bedroom pad, which Barger picked up for $10 million in 2007, just sold for $9 million. [Cityfile]
• Daniel Radcliffe has paid $5.65 million for a five-bedroom townhouse at 339 West 12th Street. The 3,000-square-foot property comes with six fireplaces and a balcony that overlooks a 39-foot-long backyard. [NYO]
• Publishing heir James Fairchild and his wife Whitney, who sold their Sutton Place apartment last year for $9 million, have picked up a new home in the Hamptons. The couple has gone into contract to buy a "fixer-upper" in Southampton for "well under" its asking price of $11 million. [NYP]

The Tuesday Party Report

cityfile · 12/09/08 01:16PM

A crowd of nearly 400 made their annual trip to the Bronx last Friday night for the New York Botanical Garden's 10th annual Winter Wonderland Ball. The black-and-white dinner, sponsored by Chanel, featured appearances by the likes of Cristina and Chris Cuomo, Nina Garcia, Marjorie Gubelmann, Byrdie Bell, Poppy Delevingne, Minnie Mortimer Gaghan, Steve and Christine Schwarzman, Dalia Oberlander, Gillian Hearst Simonds, Alex Kramer, Alexandra Lebenthal, Molly Sims, Holly Dunlap, Erin Fetherston, Margherita Missoni, Zani Gugelmann, Coco Rocha, Gillian and Sylvester Miniter, Bronson Van Wyck, Patrick McDonald, Stephen Knoll, Jessica Joffe, Jill Kargman, Lauren Remington Platt, Coralie Charriol Paul, Joe and Nazee Moinian, Kate Schelter, James and Whitney Fairchild, Lydia Fenet, Maggie Betts, Meredith Melling Burke, and Pamela Fiori. [PMc, Style.com, NYSD, The Daily]

Fairchilds Sell on Sutton, Lerner Buys in the Village

cityfile · 10/03/08 08:00AM

♦ James Fairchild—the son of John Fairchild, the founder of Fairchild Publications—and wife Whitney have sold their third-floor apartment at 1 Sutton Place for $9 million. [Cityfile]
♦ The buyer of Max Mutchnick's two-bedroom West Village apartment is sports mogul Randy Lerner, who owns both the Cleveland Browns and the Aston Villa soccer club in England. [Cityfile]
♦ Mariann Florio, the widow of former Condé Nast CEO Steve Florio, has put her waterfront house in Key Largo on the market for $8.9 million. The Florios paid just $4.8 million for the six-bedroom Mediterranean mansion back in 2001. [WSJ, Sotheby's]
♦ Interior designer Lorraine Kirke has slashed the price of her 7,000-square-foot East Hampton home twice since first putting it on the market for $14.5 million last year. It's now down to $11.5 million. [Newsday, Sotheby's]