Annie Leibovitz's apartment on Central Park West is for sale

[Anonymous]

It is so beautiful inside. Coop fee is crazy ($10K+ a month!). Also it is interesting that she is selling for less than she paid 9 years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/realestate/annie-leibovitz-upper-west-side-duplex.html

[Anonymous]

Why is it selling for so much less?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it selling for so much less?

New York has actually gotten cheaper in the past 10 years.

[Anonymous]

I looove the living room with the bookcases and piano. My dream room…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it selling for so much less?

Covid cleared out NYC.

[Anonymous]

Wasn't Liebowitz kind of famously broke a few years back? I can't remember the details. I think financial mismanagement combined with some kind of tragic circumstance, I can't remember.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it selling for so much less?

Who knows maybe she needs to show a capital loss for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn't Liebowitz kind of famously broke a few years back? I can't remember the details. I think financial mismanagement combined with some kind of tragic circumstance, I can't remember.

Hard to be broke in a $9-11M apartment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it selling for so much less?

Who knows maybe she needs to show a capital loss for some reason.

It could still sell for more than list

[Anonymous]

Gorgeous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wasn't Liebowitz kind of famously broke a few years back? I can't remember the details. I think financial mismanagement combined with some kind of tragic circumstance, I can't remember.

Hard to be broke in a $9-11M apartment.

I found it -- she got in trouble with a 24 million loan that she couldn't repay and had to settle with the company: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/annie-leibovitz-settlement-talks-celebrity-photographer-lose-home/story?id=8549463

And the personal tragedy I couldn't remember was that she was partnered with Susan Sontag, who had a horrible battle with cancer, and apparently Leibovitz spent very lavishly to care for Sontag in her last years, which is a major part of what precipitated her going deep into debt. It also sounds like the company that loaned her the 24 million is somewhat shady. My sense is that she is not someone who lives very grounded in reality and got in over her head and got taken advantage of. I know it's easy to say "oh she's rich I don't feel sorry for her" but I actually think it was her professional success and wealth that made her vulnerable to people taking advantage and, recognizing she was not very financially savvy, enriched themselves at her expense.

In any case, that is a really nice apartment but I do wonder if taking a 3m bath on it might be a sign of more financial distress. She's in her mid 70s now, I wonder how her health is.

[Anonymous]

really basic and boring, glad i dont live in new york, funny that its probably required to leave up your left leaning politic stuff

https://www.6sqft.com/annie-leibovitz-lists-her-central-park-west-home-for-8-6m/

[Anonymous]

I know she's a famous photographer, but who knew you could find a lot of wealth in photography!

[Anonymous]

here is the mls listing

https://www.redfin.com/NY/New-York/88-Central-Park-W-10023/unit-5N/home/59312433

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:really basic and boring, glad i dont live in new york, funny that its probably required to leave up your left leaning politic stuff

https://www.6sqft.com/annie-leibovitz-lists-her-central-park-west-home-for-8-6m/

I'm sure her neighbors are thankful for any attempt to keep MAGA trash away.