{"id":195530,"date":"2026-04-13T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195530\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:37:08","slug":"mariah-careys-nyc-penthouse-is-on-the-market-for-27m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195530\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey\u2019s NYC Penthouse Is On The Market For $27m"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the late 1990s and all Mariah Carey wanted for Christmas was Barbara Streisand\u2019s penthouse duplex on Central Park West. Despite offering up $8m in cash, the powers that be (AKA the Ardsley apartment co-op board) rejected the offer on the grounds that her flamboyant celebrity image would disrupt the building\u2019s family-friendly feel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not one to put up with those who don\u2019t respect her A-list status, Carey abandoned her dreams of living on the Upper West Side and looked downtown for her next home \u2013 eventually setting her sights on Tribeca\u2019s 17-storey Franklin Tower. Unsatisfied with the duplex penthouse on the 17th and 18th floors alone, she rounded-out the purchase with the full-floor unit directly below \u2013 all for a cool $9m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Transforming the former 1900s-built Bank building into an Art Deco<\/a> haven inspired by the golden age of Hollywood, she brought in the \u2018Prince of Chintz\u2019, late designer Mario Buatta, to maker her vision a reality. \u2018I wanted to create a background for Mariah\u2019s own glamour,\u2019 he told Architectural Digest<\/a>. \u2018She exudes glamour \u2013 and sex appeal, too. She has incredible charisma.\u2019<\/p>\n

During Carey\u2019s residence, guests were greeted by silver-leaf doors, lacquered peach walls, bronze-inlaid limestone floors and a showgirl-style apartment dripping in gold drapery. The heart of the home is a long room divided into three distinct spaces: a living area, dining area, and an intimate spot for after-dinner conversation \u2013 formerly delineated by a baby grand piano once owned by Marilyn Monroe<\/a>, and purchased by Carey for $600,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As you\u2019d expect of someone with an album called Butterfly, the property is suitably rife with butterfly motifs. As\u00a0Buatta told AD: \u2018There are butterfly handles on the cabinets in the bedroom, and butterflies are woven into the bed hangings. They\u2019re even on the soap in the bath and on the tiles in the kitchen. There are so many butterflies in this apartment, you don\u2019t even notice them.\u2019<\/p>\n

Other highlights of the home include two kitchens, an exercise room, a Turkish-style banquette large enough for a dinner party, a steam room lined with white marble, a hair-and-makeup room, a recording studio, an aquarium-equipped media room designed to evoke \u2018the feeling of a movie theater under the sea\u2019, and Carey\u2019s 38ft bath \u2013 longer than most Park Avenue living rooms \u2013 from which you can enter her boutique-style clothes room (AD suggested it was too big to call a closet) which leads through to her shoe room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Now on the market for the first time in three decades, the palatial pad offers up eight bedrooms, seven bathrooms and a powder room. Spanning 12,700 sqft, four large windows flood the central space with light, while a rooftop terrace off the semi-circular sunroom (plus wet bar) offers 360 views across the Manhattan skyline and Hudson river.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the market for $27m. Find out more at corenyc.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Where Else Has Mariah Carey Owned Homes?
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In 1993, Mariah Carey and her then-husband, Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, purchased 51 acres in Bedford, Westchester County for $2m. They designed and built a 22,000 sqft Georgian-style mansion on the site featuring nine bedrooms, seven fireplaces, a ballroom, a pistol range, a recording studio, and both indoor and outdoor pools. When the couple separated in 1997, they sold the property to executive Nelson Peltz for $20.5m \u2013 at the time, the most expensive sale in Westchester County history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bahamas\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2007, the star picked up a beachfront compound on Windermere Island in the Bahamas for $5m. Known as Villa Sea Lily, the three-acre compound comprised four pavilions arranged around an interior courtyard, with about 4,000 sqft of interior living space and 3,500 sqft of covered terraces and marble walkways. More than a home, the property was also the site of her intimate 2008 wedding to her now ex-husband Nick Cannon. Carey and Cannon returned to the Caribbean estate to renew their vows one year later, and reportedly lived there part-time throughout their marriage. The couple listed the estate for $5.5m in 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bel-Air, California<\/p>\n

In 2009, Carey and Cannon purchased a Colonial-style mansion previously owned by 80s star Farrah Fawcett for $6.9m. Spanning 11,750 sqft, the three acre property boasts gated driveaways, motor courts, a swimming pool, seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms and seven fireplaces, plus a double-height foyer, home theatre, game room, recording studio, indoor basketball court, putting green, tennis court and a 32ft entertainment lounge. After the pair called it quits in 2014, they listed the home and sold it for $9m the following year.<\/p>\n

Atlanta, Georgia\u00a0<\/p>\n

The singer purchased a mansion in Atlanta\u2019s Sandy Springs area for $5.65m in 2021 to be closer to her band. The redbrick colonial-style estate was originally built in 1951, and boasted nine bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and five half baths spread across 12,575 sqft. Carey made her mark on the residence with a private recording studio, a pink dressing room with a pink vanity, a glittery pink chandelier in the foyer, and a giant tufted velvet headboard in the primary bedroom. Following a burglary in late June 2022, Carey put the home on the market for $6.5m just nine months after purchasing it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the late 1990s and all Mariah Carey wanted for Christmas was Barbara Streisand\u2019s penthouse duplex on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,1304],"class_list":{"0":"post-195530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news","13":"tag-what"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195530","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=195530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}