Pizza scion Anthony Sbarro, who parents started the eponymous chain, has sold his impressive Southampton estate to a buyer for $24 million, Mansion Global has learned.
The new, 10,000-square-foot Long Island mansion was one of the last built by prolific Hamptons architect Francis Fleetwood, who created homes for celebrities like Paul McCartney, Lauren Bacall and Calvin Klein. Fleetwood died in 2015.
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Mr. Sbarro purchased the property in 2014 for $10.26 million, according to property records, and hired the architect to build one of his trademark shingle-style Victorian mansions. Italian architect and designer Achille Salvagni was enlisted to do the interiors.
Mr. Sbarro, who is in his 70s, ended up buying a different waterfront property in town while he was building the house, he told The Wall Street Journal last year. He finished the home and put it up for sale in 2016.
The two-acre property is in a highly exclusive community in Southampton called Murray Compound and comes furnished down to the surfboards decorating in the bar and billiard room, according to the listing withHarald Grant of Sotheby's International Realty andDouglas Elliman agents Erica Grossman and Michaela Keszler, who represented Mr. Sbarro. Mr.Grant also represented the buyer.
The heir to an Italian-American fast food fortune closed on the estate on Wednesday to an unidentified buyer.
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Mr. Salvagni, the interior designer, oversaw everything from a custom carpet based on a map of the Hamptonsin the foyer to the chartreuse drapes in the sitting room, according to the listing agents.
The amenity-packed lower level houses a home theater with rows of cushy armchairs, a modern wine cellar and a mirror-lined dance studio.
A glass-covered breezeway on the first floor connects the main house to a secluded junior master suite. And outside there is a 60-by-30-foot pool, pool house and tennis courts.
Editors Note: Due to wrong information provided to Mansion Global, aprevious version of this story incorrectly stated the sale price was $26.95 million. The sale price was$24 million.