Love may be priceless \u2014 but when it all falls apart, it certainly comes with a price.<\/p>\n
The Upper East Side mansion at the center of one of New York\u2019s most vicious divorce battles has emerged as the most valuable single-family home in the five boroughs, according to a Post review of the city\u2019s potential pied-\u00e0-terre list<\/a>. That massive data dump, released last last week, inadvertently outed the addresses of thousands of wealthy property owners \u2014 and, in certain cases, the big names who own them.<\/p>\n The eight-figure property at 9 E. 86th St., assessed at $75.8 million, now belongs solely to Jenica Paulson, who was awarded the property in her settlement<\/a> with hedge fund titan John Paulson after years of courtroom warfare over hundreds of millions in trusts and real estate.<\/p>\n The address surfaced in Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s newly released Class 1 property roll, a document meant to identify one- two- and three-family townhouses that could be hit with the state\u2019s incoming pied-\u00e0-terre tax. <\/a>Instead, it splashed the names and addresses of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers across the internet, drawing furious backlash from property owners and elected officials alike.<\/p>\n The Upper East Side mansion at 9 E. 86th St., valued by the city at $75.8 million, now belongs solely to Jenica Paulson after her bitter divorce settlement with hedge fund billionaire John Paulson, making it the most valuable privately owned home in New York. Google Maps<\/p>\n Jenica (left) paid $30 million in May to keep the home following a years-long legal battle in which she\u2019d accused John (right) of hiding assets in trusts, seeking $1 billion in damages before the case was amicably settled. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n Only one property on the list carries a higher price tag than Jenica\u2019s, a $112 million spread at 7 E. 72nd St. But that property is not privately held. <\/p>\n It is part of a combined megamansion assembled by the government of Qatar, which paid $26 million for the site in 2002 and fused it with the neighboring 9 E. 72nd St. to create a single royal residence, meaning the Paulson townhouse stands as the city\u2019s most valuable home actually owned by an individual.<\/p>\n Jenica paid $30 million in May to keep the mansion as part of the final settlement, capping off an intense divorce saga since John filed to end the marriage in September 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cJenny Paulson and John Paulson have come to the decision to amicably settle their divorce and trust related litigations,\u201d Jenny\u2019s attorney Robert S. Cohen and John\u2019s attorney Marilyn Chinitz said in a joint statement at the time. \u201cThey consider this settlement a private matter and neither party nor any family nor friends of the parties will have any further comment.\u201d<\/p>\n 9 E. 86th St. ranks second overall on Mayor Mamdani\u2019s newly released Class 1 property database, behind only a $112 million Qatari government megamansion at 7 E. 72nd St. Google Maps<\/p>\n The couple, married in 2000 after meeting when Jenica waited on John at the Bear Stearns cafeteria, spent years fighting over more than $100 million in real estate holdings stretching from the Hamptons to Aspen, Colorado. <\/p>\n