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[ksquared]

Inside Joan Rivers’ opulent UES penthouse
By Max Gross
September 5, 2014 | 2:51pm
(Slide show via the link below)

“This is how Marie Antoinette would have lived if she had money.”

These were the words the late Joan Rivers used in “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” to describe her opulent, classically adorned Upper East Side condo—the penthouse at 1 E. 62nd St., where Rivers also served as condo board president.

Like its owner, the penthouse was unquestionably a piece of work. “It is a palatial, magnificent, very French-looking apartment with very grand proportions,” says Dolly Lenz of Dolly Lenz Real Estate, who put the apartment on the market two years ago (and who has clients of a similar outrageous fashionista bent like, say, Sean Combs, a?k?a Diddy.) “It was as elegant and beautiful as she was,” Lenz deadpanned.

The penthouse contains floor-to-ceiling windows, wood-burning fireplaces and there is a parlor and mezzanine floor along with the second floor — and it is massive. “More than 5,000 square feet,” says Lenz.

When Rivers first put it on the market, the asking price was $29.5 million — but even that gargantuan sum of money might be too little in today’s overheated real estate atmosphere.

We hear that Lenz just repped the buyers in a similarly proportioned penthouse at 1136 Fifth Ave. (right next door to Bette Midler’s building) for $35 million — a Carnegie Hill record. When you consider that this apartment was more than 30 blocks north of Rivers and had to go through a huge bidding war (the original asking price was only $30 million), Melissa Rivers might take heed if she decides to put Rivers’ apartment on the market.

http://nypost.com/2014/09/05/inside-joan-rivers-opulent-ues-penthouse/

[Bull_Dolphin]

Thanks for posting K. It was a delightful article.

[PMS Witch]

Joan Rivers.

Cheers, PW.

[pos_stock_hoarder]

That was a really great article. I had no idea what a class act she was.

The only inkling I had was her guest appearance on Louie CK's show. They had a really moving conversation together. Caught me off guard as I was expecting her to blasting everyone and everything!