Michael Jackson's Former UES Home Sells For $31M

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — An Upper East Side home fit for the king of pop has sold for $31.9 million, according to public real estate records.

Hedge funder and NBA owner Marc Lasry is parting with the six-story, red-brick townhouse on East 74th Street that music icon Michael Jackson once called home, according to real estate records. Jackson reportedly rented the home for several months in the late 90s, luxury real estate agent Adam Modlin said when his firm listed the home in 2017.

The new owner of the property is an entity called 4 EAst 74 LLC that has the Manhattan offices of the law firm Kent Beatty & Gordon listed as its address. A London-based businessman named Michael Thomas Danson took out a $15 million mortgage on the property after the deal closed in late September, public records show.

The six-story townhouse is more than 100 years years old and was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by architect Alexander Welch, according to a listing with the Modlin Group. The home features 12,745 square feet of space and a total of 16 different rooms. Seven of the rooms are bedrooms and eight are bathrooms, according to the listing.

The home initially hit the market with an asking price of $39 million, according to the original listing.

In addition to Jackson, influential artist Marc Chagall also called the East 74th Street townhouse home. The 20th century artists lived in an apartment on the building's top floor with his wife.

The historic home is also famous in its own right. The East 74th Street townhouse was a filming location in the T.V. series "Gossip Girl," Curbed first reported. In the show, the building's exterior served as a the home of main character Nate Archibold.

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