The public newspaper isn't often used to interrogate private matters, unless you're Sally Quinn. But sometimes, curiously, men try to write about their failed love lives like sullen teenagers, and the results are humiliating (for them).

• Andrew Rayburn, the entrepreneur and founder of Big Game Capital, has put his three-bedroom pied-à-terre at 165 Charles Street (left) on the market for $8.45 million. [Cityfile, RTP]
• Andrew Cohen, a managing director at Dune Capital, and his wife Suzi paid $7.575 million for a fourth-floor, four-bedroom apartment at 1120 Park Avenue. [Cityfile]
• Art advisor Franck Giraud, who oversees GPS Partners with Philippe Segalot and Lionel Pissarro, paid $4.2 million for a 12th-floor apartment at 30 East 10th Street. [Cityfile]
• Coburn Packard, a former senior VP at Lehman Brothers, and his wife Carrie paid $3 million for an apartment at 101 Warren Street, the Tribeca building developed by Ed Minskoff. [Cityfile]