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Real Estate

The World’s Richest Man’s New Mansion

Francesca Levy,

What you need to know about Carlos Slim Helu’s record-breaking purchase.

If you stand on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and look across the street, you’ll have a small chance of glimpsing the world’s richest person.

On Thursday Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, who is worth $53.5 billion, bought the Duke-Semans mansion, a beaux-arts townhouse directly across from the Met, for $44 million, public records show. That record-breaking price is the most paid for any New York home in nearly two years.

Duke Semans Mansion Sale Closes at $44 Million
by Sara

As we mentioned over the weekend, Tamir Sapir—ex-taxi driver, real estate mogul, and enemy of animals everywhere who want to keep their hides—finally found a buyer for theDuke Semans mansion at 1009 Fifth Avenue. He picked the place up for $40 million in 2006, and the deal to sell was rumored to be around the same price.

World’s Richest Man Buys Duke-Semans Mansion for $44 Million

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed)

Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim, who beat out Warren Buffet and Bill Gates tocapture the title of World’s Richest Man earlier this year with an astonishing net worth of $53.5 billion, has purchased the stunning Duke-Semans Mansion in New York for a cool $44 million. As we reported back in January, cab driver-turned-fertilizer king Tamir Sapir had listed the palatial townhouse, said to be the only private mansion left on Fifth Avenue, for $50 million. According to the Wall St. Journal, Slim cut the deal to snag it for $6 million less with Sapir directly. Sapir bought the historic seven-story Beaux Arts mansion located across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art from relatives ofDoris Duke for $40 million in 2006. The 20,000-square-foot mansion, built in 1901, currently has a doctor’s office in the basement, a five-story main residence, a penthouse duplex on top, 12 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, and 11 wood-burning fireplaces.