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Tagged: William F. Buckley

Buyers & Sellers

Zucker's Former Duplex Goes Back On the Market

140223• NBC chief Jeff Zucker's former duplex at 239 Central Park West (left), which he sold to Marti Meyerson and her husband Jamie Hooper in 2006 for $15.7 million, is back on the market. The 11th and 12th floor apartment is now listed for $17.5 million. Meyerson is the daughter of Morton Meyerson, Ross Perot's onetime business partner and the former chairman and CEO of Perot Systems. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
Bob Weinstein and his wife Annie Clayton have paid $15 million for a four-story, 6,580-square-foot townhouse at 39 West 70th Street. [Real Deal]
• Big time art collectors Donald and Shelley Rubin, who made fortune with the MultiPlan health care network, have put their townhouse at 122 East 70th Street on the market with Kathy Sloane for $20.2 million. [NYO, BHS]More

Buyers & Sellers

$30 Million Man at 145 Hudson Revealed

137242• The mystery buyer who paid $30 million for a penthouse at 145 Hudson Street—and who the New York Times described as "not an investment banker or the manager of a hedge fund"—is none other than convicted felon William Duker, the attorney (and now private investor) who was sentenced to 33 months in prison in 1997 for falsely inflating legal bills to the federal government. [Real Deal]
• William and Pat Buckley's duplex at 778 Park, which was put on the market for $24.5 million last June, has been taken off the market. [NYM]
• Broadway producer Anita Waxman and her husband, Tom Dokton, the inventor of the ultrasound, have lowered the price of their 39-acre estate in Connecticut. It's now listed for $3.95 million. [WSJ]
• Former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays—who is reportedly being considered by President Obama to head the Peace Corps—says he'll be putting his waterfront home in Connecticut on the market "within a week." [GT]

Inheritances

Christopher Buckley's Son Disinherited

129647The late William F. Buckley Jr., founder of the National Review, apparently believed that anyone with the bad manners to be conceived during an affair should suffer the consequences. His illegitimate grandson, Jonathan—the son of author Christopher Buckley and the result of his affair with book publicist Irina Woelfe—will not get a penny of his estate, worth tens of millions, reports the Post, after Buckley literally stated in his will that the child was dead to him: "I intentionally make no provision herein for said Jonathan, who for all purposes... shall be deemed to have predeceased me." The details have emerged because Woelfe is filing suit to seek more child support from Christopher, who she claims hasn't wanted to see their son.

Buyers & Sellers

Buckley's 778 Park Spread Hits Market

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  • Late icon of conservatism William F. Buckley's duplex at 778 Park (also the last address of Brooke Astor) has gone on the market for $24.5 million. The 5,000-square-foot space (above) has four bedrooms, and 4.5 bathrooms; no extra charge for the lingering ghosts of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. [Daily News, Barak Realty]
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