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**andrew r** · 05-29-2008, 02:48 PM

Nice pad! Thanks for the info Bill!

Q-Love · 05-31-2008, 02:53 AM

At the very least, Scarlett ought to give the public (read us) a tour of the new digs before she gets married. Mayhap she ought to have a reality-show about her lead-up to marriage and subsequent married life?

Q-"Not that that hasn't failed before"-Love :

**Bill5461** · 05-31-2008, 07:37 AM

I agree with you Q, however being a private person..I don't think she's gonna do that

**Bill5461** · 06-01-2008, 10:24 AM

More News On Scarlett's new penthouse:

Did Auntie Mame Fanatic Scarlett Johansson Buy $2.1 M. Penthouse, With Greenhouse?

by Max Abelson | May 27, 2008
This article was published in the June 2, 2008, edition of The New York Observer.

When this column broke the news late last month that the famously mouthed 23-year-old Scarlett Johansson had sold her duplex loft at 66 Leonard Street for $1,898,000, a $52,000 loss from what she’d paid in January 2006, some relatively heartfelt concern was expressed for the starlet’s New York real estate choices.

After all, it’s genuinely impossible to remember a plump apartment that didn’t hugely appreciate over the past few years.

But fretting for Ms. Johansson is probably unnecessary. A deed filed in city records last week shows that a trust controlled by her mother, with the same Hollywood billing address as the 66 Leonard Trust, paid $2.1 million for a penthouse on East 53rd Street near Sutton Place.

On the downside, the area isn’t quite frisky. “You find that people,” an ex-ambassador at a nearby co-op told The Observer this year, “are rather serious.”
The trust is called Upson Pines, which gets just one Google hit: A site says it’s the name of a house belonging to Claude and Doris Upson in the camp classic Auntie Mame, which, in copious amounts of TV and magazine interviews, Ms. Johansson has said is her absolute favorite movie. (And incidentally, the story is centered around Beekman Place, just south of the new apartment.)

Her older brother Adrian, a co-broker for the Leonard apartment, did not return calls. But a listing for the East 53rd Street penthouse says it has 1,270 square feet, a wine cooler in the kitchen, a walk-in closet off the master bedroom that’s so big it’s also called a study, a landscaped wrap terrace with huge views, plus “a lovely greenhouse off the bedroom,” which the floor plan less lushly calls a 7.5-by9.5foot “sunroom enclosure.”

aloha · 06-01-2008, 12:17 PM

thanks for the news Bill. I wonder if that will be the new home for her AND Ryan.

**andrew r** · 06-01-2008, 03:02 PM

Good point aloha. Thanks for the news Bill.

Q-Love · 06-01-2008, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill5461

I agree with you Q, however being a private person..I don't think she's gonna do that

Oh, I'm not expecting her to do so. I was making a sly joke at Jessica Simpson's expense.

Q-"We all know how that turned out"-Love

**Bill5461** · 06-02-2008, 06:46 AM

Well, if that's the case..Jessica who?

**andrew r** · 06-02-2008, 02:44 PM

Lol!

aloha · 06-02-2008, 03:10 PM

Quote:

I was making a sly joke at Jessica Simpson's expense

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill5461

Jessica who?

hey I like her, she is a great singer!

**Bill5461** · 06-02-2008, 04:51 PM

As I learn more about Scarlett's new digs, I'm guessing that it's not in Manhattan, but in a section of Brooklyn, according to a blurb in this community paper:

Sutton Place: Scarlett Johansson, with all your money and class, how could you leave Tribeca for a postwar here? We predict that the landscaped wraparound terrace and enclosed sunroom will not mitigate this faux pas. [NYO via Curbed]

aloha · 06-02-2008, 04:54 PM

oh we need pictures of that I guess

**Bill5461** · 06-03-2008, 06:45 AM

Are They Nuts?...all these news services are running this story..Match Point was Years ago!! Just proves, most of them have no idea what they're writing.

Scarlett Johansson shows cleavage at premier

Tuesday, June 3 2008

(ANI): Scarlett Johansson made sure that all eyes were on her while she walked the red carpet for the premiere of new production 'Match Point in LA' by flaunting her cleavage. The actress, who recently got engaged to her lucky boyfriend Ryan Reynolds, wore a plunging dress that showed off her magnificent chest in all its glory.

aloha · 06-03-2008, 09:32 AM

oh, first I thoiught you meant me with "are you nuts"! hehe
but now I get what you wante dto say and it also just proves me that all those gossipers and apparently journalists are just writing crap to earn lots of money for such a story

**Bill5461** · 06-04-2008, 11:11 AM

Here is a link with actual pics of Scarlett's new penthouse. The furnishings are obviousy from a previous owner:

http://www.bergproperties.com/blog/a...63/celebrities

aloha · 06-04-2008, 12:40 PM

thanks for the article Bill. great find

**Jocasta** · 06-04-2008, 01:42 PM

Stalker gold! lol

**andrew r** · 06-05-2008, 02:13 PM

Bill how did you find this? Oh better not tell! Thanks for the link there, it's a very swish place!

Q-Love · 06-05-2008, 07:24 PM

From what I can see, it looks pretty average, in terms of actual furnishings. I guess the fact that it's right in the middle of Manhattan on one of the top floors of a relatively-historical building drives up the price to $2.1 mil.

But what do you really get for living in a place like that in the middle of Manhattan? Is access restricted to the 19th floor for Scarlett? A panoramic view? It just looks like a regular apartment.

05-29-2008, 02:48 PM	#881 (permalink)
andrew r Moderator Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: England Posts: 33,323 My Profile	Nice pad! Thanks for the info Bill!

05-31-2008, 02:53 AM	#882 (permalink)
Q-Love Scarlett's "Q"-Love Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Omnipresently here Posts: 527 My Profile	At the very least, Scarlett ought to give the public (read us) a tour of the new digs before she gets married. Mayhap she ought to have a reality-show about her lead-up to marriage and subsequent married life? Q-"Not that that hasn't failed before"-Love :

05-31-2008, 07:37 AM	#883 (permalink)
Bill5461 Scarlett Mod Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 13,338 My Profile	I agree with you Q, however being a private person..I don't think she's gonna do that

06-01-2008, 10:24 AM	#884 (permalink)
Bill5461 Scarlett Mod Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 13,338 My Profile	More News On Scarlett's new penthouse: *Did Auntie Mame* Fanatic Scarlett Johansson Buy $2.1 M. Penthouse, With Greenhouse?** by Max Abelson \| May 27, 2008 This article was published in the June 2, 2008, edition of The New York Observer. When this column broke the news late last month that the famously mouthed 23-year-old Scarlett Johansson had sold her duplex loft at 66 Leonard Street for $1,898,000, a $52,000 loss from what she’d paid in January 2006, some relatively heartfelt concern was expressed for the starlet’s New York real estate choices. After all, it’s genuinely impossible to remember a plump apartment that didn’t hugely appreciate over the past few years. But fretting for Ms. Johansson is probably unnecessary. A deed filed in city records last week shows that a trust controlled by her mother, with the same Hollywood billing address as the 66 Leonard Trust, paid $2.1 million for a penthouse on East 53rd Street near Sutton Place. On the downside, the area isn’t quite frisky. “You find that people,” an ex-ambassador at a nearby co-op told The Observer this year, “are rather serious.” The trust is called Upson Pines, which gets just one Google hit: A site says it’s the name of a house belonging to Claude and Doris Upson in the camp classic Auntie Mame, which, in copious amounts of TV and magazine interviews, Ms. Johansson has said is her absolute favorite movie. (And incidentally, the story is centered around Beekman Place, just south of the new apartment.) Her older brother Adrian, a co-broker for the Leonard apartment, did not return calls. But a listing for the East 53rd Street penthouse says it has 1,270 square feet, a wine cooler in the kitchen, a walk-in closet off the master bedroom that’s so big it’s also called a study, a landscaped wrap terrace with huge views, plus “a lovely greenhouse off the bedroom,” which the floor plan less lushly calls a 7.5-by9.5foot “sunroom enclosure.”

06-01-2008, 12:17 PM	#885 (permalink)
aloha Loves Josh On Stage Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 18,597 My Profile	thanks for the news Bill. I wonder if that will be the new home for her AND Ryan.

06-01-2008, 03:02 PM	#886 (permalink)
andrew r Moderator Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: England Posts: 33,323 My Profile	Good point aloha. Thanks for the news Bill.

06-02-2008, 06:46 AM	#888 (permalink)
Bill5461 Scarlett Mod Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 13,338 My Profile	Well, if that's the case..Jessica who?

06-02-2008, 02:44 PM	#889 (permalink)
andrew r Moderator Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: England Posts: 33,323 My Profile	Lol!

06-02-2008, 04:51 PM	#891 (permalink)
Bill5461 Scarlett Mod Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 13,338 My Profile	As I learn more about Scarlett's new digs, I'm guessing that it's not in Manhattan, but in a section of Brooklyn, according to a blurb in this community paper: Sutton Place: Scarlett Johansson, with all your money and class, how could you leave Tribeca for a postwar here? We predict that the landscaped wraparound terrace and enclosed sunroom will not mitigate this faux pas. [NYO via Curbed]

06-02-2008, 04:54 PM	#892 (permalink)
aloha Loves Josh On Stage Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 18,597 My Profile	oh we need pictures of that I guess

06-04-2008, 01:42 PM	#897 (permalink)
Jocasta Love Charlie Babbitt Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Shaftesbury Avenue Posts: 19,173 My Profile	Stalker gold! lol

06-03-2008, 09:32 AM	#894 (permalink)
aloha Loves Josh On Stage Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 18,597 My Profile	oh, first I thoiught you meant me with "are you nuts"! hehe but now I get what you wante dto say and it also just proves me that all those gossipers and apparently journalists are just writing crap to earn lots of money for such a story

06-04-2008, 11:11 AM	#895 (permalink)
Bill5461 Scarlett Mod Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 13,338 My Profile	Here is a link with actual pics of Scarlett's new penthouse. The furnishings are obviousy from a previous owner: http://www.bergproperties.com/blog/a...63/celebrities

06-04-2008, 12:40 PM	#896 (permalink)
aloha Loves Josh On Stage Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 18,597 My Profile	thanks for the article Bill. great find

06-05-2008, 02:13 PM	#898 (permalink)
andrew r Moderator Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: England Posts: 33,323 My Profile	Bill how did you find this? Oh better not tell! Thanks for the link there, it's a very swish place!

06-05-2008, 07:24 PM	#899 (permalink)
Q-Love Scarlett's "Q"-Love Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Omnipresently here Posts: 527 My Profile	From what I can see, it looks pretty average, in terms of actual furnishings. I guess the fact that it's right in the middle of Manhattan on one of the top floors of a relatively-historical building drives up the price to $2.1 mil. But what do you really get for living in a place like that in the middle of Manhattan? Is access restricted to the 19th floor for Scarlett? A panoramic view? It just looks like a regular apartment.