Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Trump Tower duplex fetches $16.5M

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has sold his Trump Tower duplex for $16.5 million, or around $3,100 per square foot, after listing it in May for the third time in a decade, the Wall Street Journal reported. Webber bought the 5,300-square-foot spread, which sits on the 59th and 60th floors of 721 Fifth Avenue and has a 30-foot living room and Central Park views, for $5.5 million in 1987. He first listed it for $15 million in 2000, and then for $22.5 million in 2007. When it hit the market this time for $19 million, Brown Harris Stevens listing broker Penny Toepfer said that Webber was now “emotionally ready” to sell, and a spokesperson for the brokerage explained that he and his family had begun re-evaluating their real estate assets following Webber’s recent treatment for prostate cancer. The sale closed Wednesday, but the buyer, for now, remains anonymous. [WSJ]