Paul Simon sells Connecticut estate at multi-million dollar loss
There’s no diamonds on the soles of this sale.
Singer/songwriter Paul Simon, 80 and his spouse, 56-year-old singer Edie Brickell, have lastly bought their 8,800-square-foot New Canaan, Conn. mansion — albeit at an enormous loss.
The musical duo bought the virtually 32-acre, 84-year-old property about 20 years in the past for $16.5 million — however after greater than three years of making an attempt to resell it, solely managed to make $10.8 million, Dirt reported.
The musicians first put the Georgian-style property available on the market in 2019 with a price ticket of $13.9 million. Not solely does the sprawling predominant home boast six bedrooms, three powder rooms and 7 full loos — however the Grammy Award-winning Simon “recorded a lot of his hit albums right here,” Town & Country reported on the time.
Neither Simon’s legacy within the house nor its pond, terraced pool, walled gardens, courtyard or 2,400-square-foot visitor cottage with a storage may promote the pad. It solely managed to promote three years later and at a $3.1 million low cost off the unique ask.
Along with bragging rights relating to its superstar former house owners, the three-story house additionally comes with a 31-foot-long lobby, a 750-square foot front room and a tile-floored sunroom, in accordance with Filth. There’s a paneled library, a really giant mudroom and an ensuite bathtub in each bed room. It was inbuilt 1938 by architect Harold R. Sleeper.
“A separate 3-bedroom cottage affords a quintessential escape to be as inventive and self-indulgent or as partaking and social as you want,” notes an old listing site, which nonetheless lists its sale worth at $12 million. “This uniquely serene property has been sensitively maintained to supply the last word in peace, privateness, luxurious and tranquility and is simply 45 miles from NYC.”
Even with out their New Canaan home, Simon and Brickell nonetheless have three residences between them: An Higher West Aspect duplex, a Montauk property and a compound simply exterior Dallas, Filth reported.
