Glenn Close-r
FORMER Hollywood leading lady (now TV detective) Glenn Close has left the West Village.
The multiple Oscar nominee has sold duplex at 140 Charles St. for $1.9 million The star of “The Shield” bought the square-foot, two-bedroom condo on lower floors of the 22-story building for $899,000 in 2000, according to public records.
Close, who had been using the place as a crash pad, when not riding horses at her bucolic Westchester estate, had two previous pieds-Ã -terre in the downtown area. Earlier this year, the “Fatal Attration” star, on elegantly titled Succabone Road in Bedford Hills, bought Rock Hudson’s former duplex penthouse apartment at the Beresford on Central Park West.
Her new two-bedroom pad at 211 CPW, which had a last asking price of $5.99 million, is reportedly on the small side – at least smaller than Jerry Seinfeld’s five-bedroom place in the celeb-heavy prewar co-op building.
It’s his home
BILLY Joel wants to stay in the Hamptons, or at least maintain a presence there. For a while, it looked as though the legendary entertainer had soured on the South Fork, putting all of his East End properties on the market, after buying a whopping waterfront mansion on Long Island’s North Shore.
So far, he’s already sold two homes – one on Shelter Island and the other in North Haven – but he’s decided to take his dockside Sag Harbor home off the market.
The two-story, 18th-century home – which was an antique store and a separate bait-and-tackle shop before Joel combined the structures into a 4,000-square-foot residence – is perched on two of the town’s docks, and had a $5.4 million asking price.
CPW for FOH
HILLARY Clinton’s top political advisor Howard Wolfson and his wife, Terri McCullough, have bought a new condo at 455 Central Park West (at 104th Street).
Wolfson, who is expected to play a major role in Clinton’s upcoming senatorial campaign – and her likely presidential bid – has paid $1.8 million (according to public records) for the two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom apartment measuring just over 1,300 square feet.
Located on a high floor in the recently completed complex, the apartment includes views of Central Park, a 12-foot-by-10-foot terrace off the living room, and a 43-foot-long balcony off both bedrooms.
“We love living next door to the park, and the view from the building is really wonderful,” said Wolfson, who had previously rented a one-bedroom on the East Side. “Plus our new baby will finally get a room of her own.”
Kravitz uptown
IF The New York Times is to be believed, rocker Lenny Kravitzis about to ink a deal to buy the stately $50 million Duke Semans mansion on Fifth Avenue.
But brokers warn that Lenny is a serial townhouse tire-kicker.
“It’s like his dating record,” suggested one insider. “He loves ’em, then leaves ’em before he commits.”
For the past several years, Kravitz has looked at several fancy townhomes on the Upper East Side, twice shopping with former gal pal Nicole Kidman in tow.
The one thing all the homes had in common: They were all under $20 million.
High, Jack
AS this column first reported last year, Jack Welchand his bride, Suzy Wetlaufer, bought a place at One Beacon Court at 151 E. 58th St. Now records confirm “Neutron Jack”‘s price – he paid $6.36 million for the 46th-floor, three-bedroom condo.
Bruce cuts loose
ON the West Coast, Bruce Willis is no longer a neighbor of hottie Halle Berry. The action star sold his six-bedroom, 5 1/2-bath Malibu home for just below the $7.99M asking. Willis’ East Coast listing broker was Dolly Lenz of Prudential Douglas Elliman.
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