After nearly four years of aiming for a new owner, the penthouse triplex that the late Joan Rivers once called her own has returned for sale — and for a significant discount. It's listed on Wednesday for $28 million, according to a StreetEasy listing update. It’s also being represented by a new brokerage. The property was previously listed in 2021, but the listings portal shows a challenge of selling in the following years. By 2023, the asking price had lowered to $34.
5 million — a price that remained until early 2024, when it was apparently pulled from the market. Luxury Hudson Valley mansion once listed for $45M hits the market for a fraction of the price This property once belonged to the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes — and it's now listed for $55.5M Prince Muhammad bin Faud spent $28 million for the property in 2015, according to city Department of Finance records. Rivers, the legendary caustic comedian, died in 2014 from brain damage sustained due to a lack of oxygen during a medical procedure. She was 81. Rivers resided there for 28 years — and during her ownership entertained A-list guests, including the late Princess Diana. It’s all perched atop a 42-foot-wide limestone mansion that architect Horace Trumbauer designed in a neo-French Classical style. Rivers bought it in 1988 — a year following the death of her husband Edgar Rosenberg.Rivers famously served as president of the building’s condominium board — and, even more famously, encountered a ghost in the home. In a 2009 episode of “Celebrity Ghost Stories,” Rivers said she had to bring in a voodoo priestess after moving in to help remove a difficult apparition she referred to as “Mrs. Spencer,” who she said was a onetime resident. That Mrs. Spencer was said to be a niece of the financier and banker J.P. Morga