Black wins fight with Sotheby’s over Park Ave. apartment

Embattled media tycoon Conrad Black may be down but he’s not out. On the heels of his  legal defeat for fraud, yesterday Black won a legal battle with Sotheby’s International Realty over the 2005 sale of his Park Avenue apartment. Sotheby’s had sued Black last year, claiming he had failed to pay a $557,500 commission on the $10.5 million sale of his Park Avenue apartment. Black alleged that Sotheby’s had acted inappropriately by not disclosing that it was representing both the buyer, the developer Martin Berman, and the seller. He further alleged that Sotheby’s and Berman collaborated to tip off federal prosecutors about the sale. The New York judge sided with Black, faulting Sotheby’s for not reveling its conflicting relationships.