421 Broome Street, where Heath Ledger lived and died

The Soho building at 421 Broome Street in which actor Heath Ledger died
last year was bought today in a foreclosure auction by the property’s
lender for $15 million, sources who attended the court proceedings said. Attorney Matthew Dollinger, representing Donald Burns, the principal behind the lender Palm Beach Mortgage Management, placed the $15 million bid to purchase the building, a source said. A partner in Dollinger’s law firm, Dollinger Gonski Grossman, said the firm declined to comment. The
court determined the loans, interest and expense for the building to be
$17 million, the property’s foreclosure documents show. [more]

The 421 Broome Street building where actor Heath Ledger died will go
into foreclosure “any day now,” according to attorney Kent Karlson, who
represents artist Junia Neiva, a minority stakeholder in the building.
The building’s penthouse and the ground floor retail space are
occupied, but the other three floors, including the one where Ledger’s apartment was located, are not.
Neiva alleged, according to court documents, that Donald Burns, the
majority stakeholder of the building, has kept it empty so he can
foreclose on it. Neiva said she will appeal after the foreclosure goes
through. [more]