Time Warner Buyer Revealed, Foreclosed at Trump Int'l
• The buyer who paid $37 million for Gerhard Andlinger's penthouse at the Time Warner Center—setting the record as the biggest real estate deal in 2009 thus far—has been revealed. It's Andrei Vavilov, the Russian financier who agreed to buy two penthouses at the Plaza last year for $53.5 million, but ended up suing the developer after his wife wasn't pleased with the "attic-like" ceilings. (As part of a settlement, Valvilov agreed to purchase just one of the two apartments, and he's since gone into contract to sell it.) Hopefully, Vavilov's wife is happier with her husband's latest acquisition. The full-floor, five-bedroom penthouse on the 78th floor encompasses 8,300 square feet and comes with 14-foot ceilings. [NYT]
• Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori has gone into contract to sell his penthouse at the Trump International for $18 million, potentially making it the largest foreclosure sale in Manhattan history. The new buyer won't be able to move into the 5,500-square-foot apartment—which Cecchi Gori bought from Donald Trump for $10.4 million in 1997—anytime soon. The Italian producer gutted the penthouse and it's currently uninhabitable. [NYT]
• The former Greenwich home of Rockefeller heir James Stillman Rockefeller has sold for $22.5 million. The 19,000-square-foot mansion, which Rockefeller sold to a financier for $13.4 million in 2007, went on the market for $23.9 million in May. [WSJ]
• Architect Lee Harris Pomeroy has dropped the price of his duplex penthouse at 285 Central Park West for the fifth time since listing it for $16.5 million last year. The nine-bedroom apartment is now listed for $7.75 million. [NYO, BHS]
• The Harlem mansion built by Barnum & Bailey co-founder James Bailey has dropped in price for the second time since going on the market for $10 million in November. The 12,000-square-foot home, which was reduced to $6.5 million in April, is now listed for $3.5 million. [NYM, Stribling]