Patriots owner Robert Kraft is coming toܫ the Hamptons.
The Brookline-born billionaire has bought a $43 million home at 40 Meadow Lane in So🍎uthampton — a beach road filled with finance titans like Ken Griffin, Leon Black and Henry Kravis.
The seller was Nir Meir, a former executive at HFZ ꧅Capital.
“He flew down for a day with a young woman wearing a monster-sized diamond ring. They looked at multiple houses and bought this one,” a source told Gimme exclusively. “He preferred a house on Surfside in Bridgehampton, where he rented last year, but none were available.”
Once a prolific condo developer in Manhattan, HFZ imploded during the pandemic, leaving a trail of “liens, foreclosures and lawsuits” in its wake, according to the Real Deal.
The Kraft deal was first .
HFZ’s founder Ziel Feldman was also forced to sell his $50 million Hamptons home at 187 Dune Road, by a mega-mansion built by Ukrainian-born billionaire oligarch Len Blavatnik.
Feldman’s former house, which sits on 1.54 acres, reportedly looks like a “Midtown skyscraper” and was worth at least $75 million, sources say.
However, Feldman had illegally built extra bedrooms on the main floor — not allowed because of flood zone dangers — and that impacted the home’s price.
“That’s why it sold for cheap,” a source said. “It was a $75 million house.”
The buyer was e-commerce retailer Michael Rubin.
However, sources also tell Gimme that Blavatnik’s wife, Emily, was devastated to learn it had sold, as she would have bought the house as a buffer or to be part of a compound for her family — had she known it was on the market.
“They were so upset,” a source said. “But they didn’t know it was for sale.”
Meir bought the Meadow Lane property for $10.5 million in 2013, via an LLC registered with HFZ’s New York office. He then tore down the property, a cottage known as “A Wee Lyr Mor” — following legal disputes with neighbors — and built a modern, 7,000-square-foot home in its place in 2017.
At least one creditor had tr🅠ied to stop the sale, but failed.