Slim buys Felissimo Townhouse for $15.5M

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man and the newly-minted owner of the Duke Semans Mansion on Fifth Avenue, has picked up another feted Manhattan abode, according to the Post. The five-story Felissimo Townhouse at 10 West 56th Street, once home to actress Elizabeth Taylor and her third husband, Michael Todd, will now be home to the New York operations of Slim’s Grupo Carso. The conglomerate purchased the limestone property, which was listed for $18 million with Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Faith Hope Consolo and Joseph Aquino, through an affiliated LLC for $15.5 million in cash. Roxana Girand of Murray Hill Properties said she represented the buyer, who she declined to identify, but Grupo Carso is a known client of hers. The deal is said to have closed last week within five days of Slim’s offer. [Post]