Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn has found a buyer for her Hamptons mansion, an estate made famous by the 1975 documentary "Grey Gardens" about two society outcasts living in squalor, the newspaper reported.
Ms. Quinn, 76, did not disclose to the Washington Post how much the buyer offered for the home, but she was asking $17.995 million.
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She and her late husband, former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, reportedly bought the estate, overgrown and reeking of cat urine, for $220,000 from the mother-daughter recluses known as "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" shortly after the documentary was released.
The couple gutted and cleaned up the traditional shingle-style mansion, which served as their vacation home away from Washington, D.C., and added a pool and tennis court.
The home is expected to close in a few weeks, though Ms. Quinn did not reveal to The Washington Post who the buyer is.
She told the newspaper that she "burst into tears," when she got the offer since it meant letting go of her late husband. Mr. Bradlee, who died in 2014, wrote his bestselling memoir "A Good Life" in a stucco cottage on the property.
In the wake of the documentary, the house and its former owners Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Beale, the aunt and cousin of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, garnered cult fandom for their bizarre lifestyle.
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Documentarians contrasted the wild, decaying home, built in 1897, against tidy neighboring mansions. Film crews had to wear flea collars on their ankles to keep the bugs at bay and caught cats on camera relieving themselves freely inside the home.
Today, the pristinely landscaped two-acre property, a few minutes’ walk from Georgica Beach, would not attract any more attention than its stately neighbors. The renovated main house has seven bedrooms and six-and-a-half bathrooms, according to the listing with Corcoran agents Michael Schultz and Susan Ryan. The brokers did not return a request for comment. Ms. Quinn could not be reached for comment.