Exclusive | NYC mansion tied up in vicious divorce outed as the citys priciest home in Mamdanis pied--terre list
Love may be priceless — but when it all falls apart, it certainly comes with a price.The Upper East Side mansion at the center of one of New York’s most vicious divorce battles has emerged as the most valuable single-family home in the five boroughs, according to a Post review of the city’s potential pied-à-terre list.That massive data dump, released last last week, inadvertently outed the addresses of thousands of wealthy property owners — and, in certain cases, the big names who own them.The eight-figure property at 9 E.
86th St., assessed at $75.8 million, now belongs solely to Jenica Paulson, who was awarded the property in her settlement with hedge fund titan John Paulson after years of courtroom warfare over hundreds of millions in trusts and real estate.The address surfaced in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly released Class 1 property roll, a document meant to identify one- two- and three-family townhouses that could be hit with the state’s incoming pied-à-terre tax.Instead, it splashed the names and addresses of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers across the internet, drawing furious backlash from property owners and elected officials alike.Only one property on the list carries a higher price tag than Jenica’s, a $112 million spread at 7 E.
72nd St.But that property is not privately held.
It is part of a combined megamansion assembled by the government of Qatar, which paid $26 million for the site in 2002 and fused it with the neighboring 9 E.72nd St.
to create a single royal residence, meaning the Paulson townhouse stands as the city’s most valuable home actually owned by an individual.Jenica paid $30 million in May to keep the mansion as part of the final settlement, capping off an intense divorce saga since John filed to end the marriage in September 2021.“Jenny Paulson and John Paulson have come to the decision to amicably settle their divorce and trust related litigations,” Jenny’s attorney Robert S.Cohen and John’s attorney ...