Paula Del Nunzio is a Manhattan-based real estate broker at Brown Harris Stevens, a high-end residential real estate brokerage. She specializes in townhouses. In 2008, she sold a 25-room mansion at 14-16 East 67th Street, previously owned by a pornographer, to hedge fund titan Philip Falcone for $49 million, by rebranding it as The Milbank Mansion. Her clients have included entrepreneur and philanthropist Marc Cuban and television producer Norman Lear.

Before getting into the real estate industry, she held a variety of jobs, including working at book publisher New Directions, making movie trailers, working in advertising, and writing profiles of U.S. companies for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

She is married to Paul Balser, a founding partner of Ironwood Partners, a private equity investment fund. Del Nunzio graduated from Vassar College with a degree in English literature, and then studied chemistry at Columbia University and film production and finance at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan.
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