The Wildensteins’ Upper East Side mansion is back on the market after a deal to sell it to the state of Qatar in 2014 fell apart.
The billionaire art dealer family's limestone-clad property, which was designed by Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer, has been re-listed for sale for $100 million under agent Cushman & Wakefield.
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This comes just two years after Qatar pulled out of a $90 million deal to buy the 21,000-square-foot townhouse at 19 East 64th St., which it had planned to turn into a consulate.
According to Bloomberg, Qatar claimed that Guy Wildenstein, the family's patriarch, had violated money laundering laws; while in a subsequent suit, the family countered that the state was reneging on the deal because of uncomfortable publicity surrounding it. The case was eventually settled outside of court.
And now, the property, which has been owned by the Wildenstein family, art-world VIPs, for more than 80 years, is now back on the market with an increased listing price.
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While Cushman & Wakefield provides no pictures on its website of the property, it reveals that on the third floor, "an entire paneled salon that was in Talleyrand’s 18th Century Parisian townhouse has been re-assembled within the building as an executive office."
This is not the only Wildenstein asset for sale. Mr. Wildenstein, who has been accused of tax fraud and money laundering and is in the middle of a lawsuit in France, is also trying to sell his home at 7 Sutton Square for $49 million, while the family's race horses are to be auctioned.
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