Aug
17
Scandal-Plagued Wildenstein Mansion Back on Market for $100 Million
ByAfter Qatar backed out, the family, facing a half-billion-dollar tax case, is putting the house back on the market.
In 2014, the Wildensteins thought they’d pulled off the biggest real estate coup in New York. The billionaire art dealing family, whose gallery, Wildenstein & Co. had owned its 21,000-square-foot townhouse on East 64th Street for more than 80 years, signed a deal with the government of Qatar to sell the limestone-clad building for a reported $90 million. Qatar planned to use the building as a consulate, and the Wildensteins, embroiled in a half-billion dollar tax case in France, would get a healthy injection of liquidity….
Scandal-Plagued Wildenstein Mansion Back on Market for $100 Million
