After two years on the market, the penthouse apartment of Tamara Mellon, co-founder of iconic shoe brand Jimmy Choo, is being switched to a rental listing. The Upper East Side pad will cost some lucky lessee $60,000 a month.
And why is that hypothetical lessee so lucky, you ask? Just take a look at that shoe closet, which appears to be about the size of an average New York City apartment. The penthouse also includes another 7,000 square feet of real estate, but you’ll hardly have time to notice with all that shoe-shopping you’ll be doing, you lucky hypothetical lessee, you.
Part of the Louis XVI-style Carhart mansion designed by famous Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer, the condo has five bedrooms and six baths, a huge outdoor deck, a solarium, and a serious pedigree. The previous owner was Seagram’s heir Charles Bronfman Jr., who sold to Mellon for $20 million in 2008. The penthouse was first listed for $34 million in 2014 and subsequently lowered to $27 million, but failed to find a buyer.
Mellon had a net worth north of $150 million in 2007, but found herself filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2015 after facing business difficulties.