Olivier Sarkozy dined VIP at Soho’s see-and-be-seen Balthazar brasserie on Monday, the 52-year-old re-listed his combined Turtle Bay townhouse for $10.5 million — $1 million below its August 2021 asking price — following a broker switch, according to a Wednesday StreetEasy listing update.Otherwise known as the Hunnewell Mansion, Sarkozy — through a limited liability company — purchased the 38-foot-wide property at 226-228 E.
49th St. in April 2014 from the artist David Deutsch for $13.5 million. That was about a year and a half before he wed the former child actress Mary-Kate Olsen — whose reception, which included “bowls and bowls filled with cigarettes, and everyone smoked the whole night,” appears to have been held in this same property.
Just before their wedding, the couple began a full renovation of this home. But according to the New York Times, which reported news last summer of the 8,700-square-foot spread asking $11.5 million, that process stalled.
What’s more, Sarkozy — the half-brother of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy — and Olsen, 35, finalized their divorce in early 2021.
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