Exclusive | Ex-con investor puts $138M of enormous trophy penthouses up for sale in NYC and Miami
It’s not often a single investor owns one of the city’s top trophy penthouses in both New York and Miami — and puts them both on the market at the same time for a combined $138 million.William Duker, a former lawyer turned investor, has listed his Miami penthouse triplex at the Apogee, 800 South Pointe, for $78 million.At the same time, he’s put his Tribeca penthouse at the Sky Lofts, 145 Hudson St., on the market for $59.5 million, Gimme Shelter has learned.“I’m 72, and I’m just beginning to organize this next phase of my life.
The last thing I need now are two apartments of this size,” Duker tells Gimme Shelter.The Miami unit spans the 22nd to 24th floors of the Apogee — 8,271 square feet inside with another 13,146 square feet of outdoor space, four bathrooms, three powder rooms and a private rooftop pool.The listing brokers are Dora Puig of Luxe Living Realty and Carlo Gambino of Douglas Elliman Florida.The Tribeca penthouse has three to four bedrooms and four and a half baths across 7,500 square feet, plus a 4,500-square-foot wraparound terrace.
Its facade — “sheathed in UV-coated, high-performance, museum-quality insulated glass” — floods the interior with light while shielding it from the elements.The listing is co-held by Jim St.
Andre and Trevor Stephens of Compass, and Adam Modlin and Andrew Nierenberg of the Modlin Group.Duker’s career has been as unusual as his real estate portfolio.As a lawyer, he helped recover hundreds of millions of dollars stolen during the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s and ’90s, which ultimately cost taxpayers an estimated $125 billion.
But while working for the FDIC and the Resolution Trust Corporation, Duker overcharged the government by $1.4 million.In 1997 he pleaded guilty to four felony counts, including making false statements and obstructing a federal audit, and was sentenced to 33 months in prison.
He was disbarred.The judge in the case, Sonia Sotomayor — now a Supreme Court Just...