Joan Rivers Called This Opulent Manhattan Penthouse Home. Now It Can Be Yours for $28 Million.
A little more than a decade after Joan Rivers passed away at age 81, the legendary comedian’s opulent Versailles-inspired penthouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan has once again popped up for sale, asking $28 million.
Rivers acquired the 42-foot-wide spread in 1988 about a year after the death of her husband Edgar Rosenberg and lived there until she died in 2014, according to the New York Post. The property then sold around a year later for $28 million to Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Fahd Al Saud, who first hoisted the place on the market in 2021 for $38 million before subsequently reducing the price and then temporarily removing it from the listings in 2023.
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Sited within the six-story, pre-war Spencer Condominium, which was designed by noted architect Horace Trumbauer in the early 1900s, the French Neoclassical-style triplex rests on the top three floors of the limestone building. Five bedrooms and six baths are spread across nearly 4,700 square feet largely original but modernized interiors boasting Parquet de Versailles floors, 23-foot ceilings, crystal chandeliers, and ornate moldings. There are also five wood-burning fireplaces, plus a couple of stone terraces offering skyline and Central Park views.
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Other highlights include a private elevator landing that opens into a double-height entrance gallery before flowing to an expansive Louis XIV-inspired ballroom lined with floor-to-ceiling windows. Elsewhere are a formal dining room adorned with 18th-century French panels and a handsome wood-clad library/media room, as well as an upstairs primary suite hosting a corner office and a spa-like bath equipped with dual vanities and a glass-encased shower. A separate two, bedroom, two-bath guest wing on the lower level has its own fireside living room and kitchen.
Per the listing held by Zina Raslan and Carl Gambino of The Gambino Group at Compass, a hefty $21,068 monthly common charge also avails the new owner of a full-time doorman.
Click here for more photos of Joan Rivers’s longtime Manhattan home.
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