Netflix Star Pays $37M for Billionaires’ Row Second Home

Marcella Raneri, star of Netflix’s “Dancing Queen” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” is two-stepping across the nation’s luxury housing market.

Raneri and her fiancé, cybersecurity entrepreneur Daniel Nutkis, paid $36.5 million for a condominium unit at Vornado Realty Trust’s Billionaires’ Row supertall at 220 Central Park South, the New York Post reported. The off-market transaction was an all-cash deal.

The 3,000-square-foot unit on the 44th floor includes three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, as well as views of Central Park. The purchase breaks down to $11,995 per square foot.

The couple weren’t necessarily in the market for a Manhattan home, but told the outlet they couldn’t resist the allure of the Robert A.M. Stern-designed tower upon seeing it in person.

“After considering other options, we limited our search only to [220 Central Park South], and then it was securing the unit with the size and views we desired,” Raneri told the Post.

Raneri and Nutkis will maintain their primary home in Dallas, where Raneri was once a dancer for the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.

The couple also this week dropped $40 million for a 9,400-square-foot, seven-bedroom mansion at 3080 North Bay Road in Miami Beach.

Vornado’s 220 CPS was recently home to one of the market’s most expensive deals of the year so far, an $82.5 million resale on the 45th floor.

Closings started in 2018 and by 2020, the property earned its status as one of the world’s most profitable condos. There has been a series of markups on its resale units, a stark contrast to other condo buildings that have been cutting prices in attempts to find buyers.

The most famous unit to sell in the building was the 23,000-square-foot quadplex purchased by Ken Griffin for $240 million, the most expensive residential deal in the country’s history.

— Holden Walter-Warner