It’s been a rough year for Bronx-born diva Jennifer Lopez, but she did manage to get $23 million for her Manhattan penthouse at 21 East 26th Street, according to property records released Monday.
It’s a respectable number, given her $25 million asking price before the apartment overlooking Madison Square Park went into contract this spring. The buyer was an anonymous LLC from West Palm Beach, Florida.
The listing brokers for the condominium unit were Chris Pomeroy and Richard Orenstein of Brown Harris Stevens.
Lopez paid $20.1 million for the apartment, one of four units in the six-story, neo-Georgian building, in 2014. She listed it three years later for $27 million but found no takers at that price. The unit has been on and off the market, much like its now former owner, who has been married four times.
The posh row house, called the Whitman, was built in 1924. Chelsea Clinton is among its residents (she paid $10.5 million in 2013), and race car legend Jeff Gordon previously owned a unit.
J-Lo’s recently released autobiographical documentary “This is Me…Now” has been called “bizarre” and cringeworthy, and led to the cancellation of her summer tour. One New York Times critic even asked, “Is she for real?”
Rumors circulated earlier this summer that Lopez and her husband, actor Ben Affleck, were headed toward divorce, but their split hasn’t been confirmed.
But the couple has sold off some of their property. Earlier this month, Lopez and Affleck listed their 38,000-square-foot home in Los Angeles for $68 million. The couple bought the 12-bedroom estate at 2571 Wallingford Drive in Beverly Crest in a $61 million cash deal last May. Lopez also sold her mansion in Bel-Air last October for $34 million — $8.5 million less than the asking price. She bought the estate, which has its own pond and beach, seven years prior from actress Sela Ward and her husband, Howard Sherman, for $28 million.