Celebrity couples trade Gold Coast mansion for $5M

Kenny Williams and Zoraida Sambolin bought the 8K-square-foot home from the TV personalities

Zoraida Sambolin and Kenny Williams with 105 East Bellevue Place and Bill and Giuliana Rancic (inset)  (Credit: Getty Images and VHT Studios)
Zoraida Sambolin and Kenny Williams with 105 East Bellevue Place and Bill and Giuliana Rancic (inset)  (Credit: Getty Images and VHT Studios)

White Sox executive vice president Kenny Williams and Channel 5 anchor Zoraida Sambolin were the buyers of a Gold Coast mansion from TV personalities Bill and Giuliana Rancic.

The couple paid $5 million for the 8,100-square-foot home at 105 East Bellevue Place. It closed in February, purchased through a trust that concealed their identities, according to Crain’s.

Phil Skowron of @properties agent represented Williams and Sambolin. Laura Rubin Dresner of Baird & Warner had the Rancics’ listing.

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Williams and Sambolin just sold their 3,800-square-foot Streeterville townhouse for $2.3 million, a year and a half after buying it for $2.4 million.

Bill Rancic, winner of the first season of now-President Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice;” and Giuliana Rancic, an E! television host, paid $2.2 million for the home and undertook an extensive renovation and expansion.

They listed it in March 2018 at $6.8 million and later reduced the asking price to $6 million before the final price cut and sale. [Crain’s] — John O’Brien