Jennifer Gould

Jennifer Gould

Real Estate

Diddy’s failed Park Ave. megamansion finally sells at a steep discount

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Less money, mo' problems: Diddy's disappointing Upper East Side investment, 807 Park Ave., just sold for $24 million, down from its original asking price of $39 million.
Less money, mo' problems: Diddy's disappointing Upper East Side investment, 807 Park Ave., just sold for $24 million, down from its original asking price of $39 million.Compass
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Hip-hop mogul (better known as “Diddy” or, before that, “Puff Daddy”) heads a business empire that ranges from music to fashion and vodka.

Lesser known, perhaps, is the fact that he once tried to develop an Upper East Side megamansion.

Last asking $26.5 million, the well-located building, at 807 Park Ave., just sold for $24 million, according to city property records. That’s a steep discount — 38 percent — from its 2017 asking price of $39 million.

Sean "Diddy" Combs
Sean “Diddy” CombsGetty Images for Sean Combs

Diddy bought the 12-story, 24,000-square-foot building between East 74th and East 75th streets for $12 million in 1998 after living in one of its units. At some point, he scrapped or abandone꧑d plans to turn it into a megamansion. He then ⛦sold it for $14.3 million in 2004 to Aion Partners.

Since🅷 then, Aion has tried several tactics on the site — including trying to sell three four-story condos priced between $12 million and $16 million, a demolition attempt and then putting the entire buildi🔯ng on the market.

🧔Built in 1932, it is currently confꦍigured as three separate townhouse-like apartments that are four floors apiece and around 5,000 square feet, with five or six bedrooms and their own elevators.

The units could generate income, house a family coไmpound, or be combined into a megamansion, noted ℱlisting brokers Alexa Lambert, Timothy Desmond, Linda Melnick and Marc Achilles, of Compass.