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Soap Star Cuts Prices; Another Sale at 15 CPW

cityfile · 08/26/09 07:05AM

• Actor Roger Howarth, who used to be on One Life to Live but now appears on As the World Turns, has dropped the price of the three-bedroom condo at 505 Greenwich Street he shares with wife Cari Stahler. The sixth-floor pad, which the couple bought for $2.075 million in 2005 and listed for $3.195 million in March of this year, is now listed for $2.999 million. [Cityfile, Warburg]
• Eli Zahavi, the owner of EZ Energy Ltd., and his wife Gabriela have closed on the sale of their 25th-floor apartment at 15 CPW. The two-bedroom condo, which went on the market for $7.9 million in March, sold for $7.35 million to an entity called Metropark Investments Limited Partnership. [Cityfile]
• The skinniest house in the West Village has gone on the market. The three-story, 990-square-foot townhouse at 75 1/2 Bedford Street, where writer Edna St. Vincent Millay, Cary Grant and John Barrymore are all believed to have once lived—is listed for $2.75 million. [Curbed, Corcoran]

Suicide-Faking Fund Manager: He Did It All Wrong

cityfile · 06/12/08 11:08AM

One person you do not want to be right now is disgraced hedge funder Samuel Israel III. Because if you were him you'd either be a) lifelessly floating along the banks of the Hudson River; or b) the subject of one of the most high-profile manhunts in white-collar criminal history. Or both! Israel, the Bayou Group hedge fund founder who was found guilty of conning investors out of millions of dollars, was scheduled to begin serving a 20-year prison sentence on Monday; just an hour before he was scheduled to show, his car was found on the Bear Mountain Bridge with the words "Suicide is Painless" drawn in dust on its hood. But no body has turned up. And it turns out that people tend not to believe you when you spend your entire career defrauding people.