previously reported, <\/a>underscoring how even trophy addresses between Fifth and Madison avenues are not immune to price reality.<\/p>\nA Monday listing update on StreetEasy said the home had entered contract \u2014 but the identity of the new owner is not immediately known.<\/p>\n
The Upper East Side townhouse long owned by Ivana Trump has sold for roughly $14 million, a steep discount from its original $26.5 million asking price. Evan Joseph Photography<\/p>\n
The Upper East Side limestone residence occupies 8,725 square feet. Evan Joseph Photography<\/p>\n
Ivana purchased the roughly 8,725-square-foot property in 1992 for about $2.5 million, the year her divorce from Donald Trump was finalized, according to public records. <\/p>\n
She undertook an extensive, and over-the-top, redesign, layering the interiors with pink marble, animal prints, crystal chandeliers and heavy gilt detailing \u2014\u00a0a look that was unapologetically maximalist.<\/p>\n
The residence reflects her extravagant style with gold-draped dining rooms, pink mirrored baths, a leopard-print library and a Versailles-inspired entertaining space. Evan Joseph Photography<\/p>\n
The formal dining room. Evan Joseph Photography<\/p>\n
Their children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, spent their teenage years in the townhouse.<\/p>\n
The home is currently arranged with five bedrooms. The primary suite features a gold-embossed fireplace and Chinese-style wall murals. Two formal entertaining rooms anchor the layout, but there is no full-scale chef\u2019s kitchen \u2013 only a pair of compact galley kitchens, reflecting a lifestyle more focused on hosting than home cooking.<\/p>\n
After Ivana died following an accidental fall on the townhouse\u2019s staircase, the property entered a cooling luxury market that has forced sellers of highly customized homes to temper their expectations.<\/p>\n
Ivana Trump purchased the home for $2.5 million in 1992 after her divorce from Donald Trump. Evan Joseph Photography<\/p>\n
The property lingered on the market for several years with multiple price reductions, reflecting the challenges of selling ultra-customized luxury townhouses in Manhattan\u2019s shifting high-end market. Evan Joseph Photography<\/p>\n
Ivana Trump at her home on Oct. 4, 2017. Brian Zak\/NY Post<\/p>\n
One of five bedrooms. Evan Joseph Photography<\/p>\n
Still, the sale adds to a recent cluster of Upper East Side townhouse sales; just one block away, a property seeking $39.5 million has already found a buyer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mom absolutely loved that house,\u201d Eric Trump told the Journal in 2022, recalling the gatherings she hosted for actors and royalty. \u201cShe was so comfortable there.\u201d The opulence, he said, \u201cembodied Ivana Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe used to go out on the private balcony every morning with coffee and she\u2019d read the paper,\u201d Eric recalled.<\/p>\n
In her 2017 memoir, \u201cRaising Trump,\u201d Ivana described her aesthetic as \u201cluxurious\u201d and \u201cwhimsical.\u201d<\/p>\n
She wrote that one of the living rooms captured \u201chow Louis XVI would have lived if he had had money.\u201d <\/p>\n
A second bedroom. Evan Joseph Photography<\/p>\n
An ensuite bathroom. Evan Joseph Photography<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump and his kids Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump and their children follow the casket of Ivana Trump out of St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church during her funeral on July 20, 2022 in New York City. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Her closet, she said, stretched on so extensively that it felt borderless: \u201cI call it Indochine, because by the time you get to the end of it, you might as well be in another continent.\u201d<\/p>\n
What had once been Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s bedroom was later transformed into a private fitness room, where Ivana Trump spent hours on a treadmill deliberately angled toward the townhouse across the street owned by Donatella Versace.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey loved each other,\u201d Eric Trump said, recalling how his mother would wave mid-workout and Versace would wave back.<\/p>\n
Listing agent Adam Modlin represented both sides of the transaction but declined further comment. The Trump family could not immediately be reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gilded Upper East Side townhouse that once served as the personal palace of Ivana Trump has finally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7452,1022,153,36777,5617,5013,63303,63304,3001,1023,75,9,24,56,63,65,64,1491,3006,1996,6069,466],"class_list":{"0":"post-151345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-celebrity-homes","9":"tag-celebrity-real-estate","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-donald-trump-jr","12":"tag-eric-trump","13":"tag-homeowners","14":"tag-ivana-trump","15":"tag-ivanka-trump","16":"tag-luxe-listings","17":"tag-luxury-real-estate","18":"tag-manhattan","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-nyc-headlines","24":"tag-nyc-news","25":"tag-real-estate","26":"tag-residential-real-estate","27":"tag-townhouse","28":"tag-townhouses","29":"tag-upper-east-side"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}