In the market for a 6,744-square-foot penthouse with views of Central Park and the opportunity to run into Lloyd, Loeb or Sting in the elevator? Sandy Weill’s got something you might be interested in. It’s his 15CPW apartment and the Journal reports it could be yours for $88 million, merely double what Weill paid for it in 2007. What’s in it for you? In addition to a 2,077-square-foot terrace, 12 and a half foot high ceilings, plus the knowledge that Sandy “held parties for scores of guests in his 33-foot-wide living room, with the concert pianist Lang Lang performing,” you’d be making Sando, whose heart still hurts over everything that went down at Citi, look good. How so? Sandy and Joan, who’ve decided to kick it old school by downsizing to a smaller apartment in the same building (“He said he wanted it known that he was remaining true to his roots in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and wasn’t abandoning New York City”), won’t be keeping the money.
Sanford I. Weill, the former chairman and chief executive of Citigroup Inc., has put one of the most celebrated postwar penthouses in Manhattan on the market for $88 million, saying that at a difficult period in the country’s history, it is “a pretty good time” for wealthy Americans “to be quiet.” He said he intends to donate to charity the proceeds from the sale.
And, if you happen to be one of the jerks who abandoned the guy in recent years, there’s a bonus component for laying down the cash- you get to live, having bought your way off Joan Weill’s To Kill list.
Though she hasn’t said anything official yet, we’re going to go out on a limb and assume that if you happened to be one of the people Mrs. Weill was referring to when she mentioned this to the Times last year:
“The most important thing to my husband was his reputation, ” says Mrs. Weill, who still feels angry at the portrayal of him in the press. “There are a few people I want to kill, but I am not going to name names.”
…that shelling out the money will force her to at least consider sparing you. Sounds like a win/win.
"He said he intends to donate to charity the proceeds from the sale." >> has he found religion? or just pedestrian guilt?
And if he has to sell it short he will pick a charity to help him make the lender whole. Duck and cover Citi-Habitats.
Sure, he's had some years that were more legitimate than others. But fucking hell – he looks so regal on wicker. And you can't take that away from him (or me).
I thought the whole point of being rich is that you don't have to care about your reputation?
When's the open house?
–OWS protester
I'll take it!
Do you take IOU's?
-J. Corzine
take a sh-t in it maybe
Now's my chance to OWS – Occupy Weil's Shit!
this isn't getting enough love
Actually, I can go as high as $600MM. Cash only.
- J. Corzine
15 CPW is so pedestrian. Now suck my $88 million c*ck!
Being killed by Joan Weill is the NKI.
Actually, I thought the whole point of being so fucking rich was that you *didn't* have to ever sit on wicker again.
Lang Lang ain't shit. I can do Gaspard with one hand bitches.
- Wilbs
Garden variety tax deduction/DIY designer charity.
I am going to buy it and then gut the f'king thing. I bet part of jon's latest humiliation was thanks to dave's awesome idea! Love that guy's brass balls…
-J to the D
Not in my pad. Go get your lungs seen to you filthy hippie.
Have a stack of unused checks here.
- J. Corzine
This is classic Sandy. Put it on the market at an artificially high price so that it can appear that he is being generous. Sell it later at the real price of 40-50% of ask and benefit from the headlines of inflated generosity. There is some tax driven reason here as you will be shocked. Joan is a lovely person. Sandy is a Scum Bag attempting to improve a shit legacy.
whot a bawgan. whot a bawgan fo me.
I'll dontate the proceeds to the sandy weil charity for underprivileged sandy weils alright.
Buy it and then get those motherfuckin tires out of here