The offseason was not a busy one for celebrities in the Hamptons, with actors, artists, athletes and stars not regularly attached to notable deals on the East End.
Still, there were some well-known names in transactions, even before the season heated up. Here’s a look at what celebrities have been up to on the real estate front in the Hamptons recently.
Stars of the screen
It reportedly took silver screen legend Sylvester Stallone just two video tours to agree to purchase 9 Hither Lane in East Hampton. He closed on the home three months later for the full asking price of $25 million, according to 27East, purchasing a place that could be used not just by Rocky Balboa himself but also by his celebrity daughters.
Barbara Kavovit, who appeared on seven seasons of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” started the year with an unfortunate bang, filing for bankruptcy on her Hamptons mansion at 68 Wainscott NW Road. The filing came days ahead of a foreclosure auction scheduled for the property.
It’s not clear how things shook out for Kavovit, but her social media is still filled with posts from the Hamptons. The bankruptcy case was closed in March.
As she moves to Florida, another former “Real Housewives of New York City” star, Bethenny Frankel, has spent time downsizing in the tri-state area. In addition to selling her Greenwich estate, the Skinnygirl mogul sold the main residence and an adjacent lot with a guest cottage at 346 and 354 Lumber Lane in Bridgehampton in separate deals for a combined $5.2 million in April.
In November, former Fox News correspondent Rick Leventhal sold his 1,500-square-foot home at 9 Tanner’s Neck Lane in Westhampton for $1.16 million, according to Behind the Hedges. It’s where he met his future wife, “Real Housewives of Orange County” alum Kelly Dodd, who Leventhal is following to the West Coast.
In the fall, TikTok influencer and private chef Meredith Hayden, who runs the Wishbone Kitchen account, plunked down $2.88 million for a home in Water Mill, according to Realtor.com. It marked a return for the New Jersey native, as she achieved fame as a private chef for Hamptons-based designer Joseph Altuzarra.
Titans of industry
In early June, former mayor Michael Bloomberg paid $4 million for a waterfront home on Cold Point Road in Southampton, coming in below the $4.3 million asking price. A shrewd businessman, Bloomberg didn’t make the deal for himself, according to the New York Post, but for his pregnant daughter Georgina.
Michelin-star chef Rich Torrisi purchased a home at 30 Wills Point Road in Montauk in March. It’s unclear what the co-founder of Major Food Group — which owns Carbone, ZZ’s Club, the Grill and Torrisi — ultimately paid for the home, which had a last ask almost a year ago of $10.75 million.
One of the largest private developers across the pond, United Kingdom-based Nick Capstick-Dale, quietly purchased a home on Further Lane in East Hampton next to the Maidstone Golf Club in November for $12 million, Behind the Hedges reported. He and his wife immediately knocked down a 100-year-old home to build back bigger.
Ron Lauder, heir to the Estée Lauder fortune, sold his 30-acre property at 66 Wainscott Main Street for $56 million. While that purchase price would suggest the arrival of another wealthy denizen to the community, the surprise buyer was actually the Town of East Hampton, which made the acquisition to preserve the land from development.
And Phil Falcone, the hedge funder once worth more than $2 billion, sold his Sagaponack home at 142 Crestview Lane for $14 million in an all-cash deal, according to the Post. The deal represented the culmination of Falcone’s fall after the Securities and Exchange Commission suspended Harbinger Capital’s operations. Falcone had admitted to borrowing against his personal capital account in the fund, as well as to negligence.