Exclusive | Princess Lee Radziwills final NYC home finds a new owner after last asking $13.5M

It’s curtains — in raspberry velvet.The former Fifth Avenue residence of Princess Lee Radziwill, the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, has entered contract with a final asking price of $13.5 million, closing the book on one of the Upper East Side’s most recognizable society interiors.It initially hit the market in August 2025 for $16.9 million, before reducing the price to $14.9 million.Radziwill had lived in the unit for more than 30 years until her death in 2018.

She was 85.The residence last traded hands in 2019 for $4.9 million to the late philanthropist Suzanne von Liebig, who passed away in September at the age of 95.Just a few blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the apartment itself, featured decades ago in Architectural Digest, reflected a layered, collected aesthetic more reminiscent of a European hôtel particulier than a standard Fifth Avenue co-op.The Lenox Hill dwelling, a gracious duplex overlooking Central Park, was long associated with Radziwill’s unapologetically European approach to decorating — a philosophy she once described plainly. She said in the 1975 interview with AD, “I abhor the American idea of starting with a tabula rasa every few years and getting rid of everything.

When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.I’m constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.”That sensibility was on full display inside the approximately 4,600-square-foot home, which blends formal entertaining rooms, woodburning fireplaces and classic prewar proportions with a saturated palette that defied Manhattan minimalism. In one sitting room, walls were wrapped in deep raspberry velvet — a dramatic pivot Radziwill once explained candidly: “When I began, I was in my white period, so I painted everything accordingly.

I was never so miserable in my life! So I went off in the opposite direction, as you can see.”The listing itself offered a classic Fifth Avenue layou...