Actors and exes Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower have sold their former Upper West Side digs in The Brentmore for $18 million, records show.
Married from 1997 until 2018, the onetime Hollywood couple bought the luxury co-op overlooking Central Park for $20.9 million in 2006. The recent sale, which closed March 5, according to a deed that appeared in the city register Monday, equates to a more than $2 million loss. It’s unclear if anyone had been living in the home since the couple split, but Hightower told The Wall Street Journal last year, when it was first put on the market, that she was ready for a fresh start.
The 81-year-old Academy Award-winning actor, known for his roles in Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Meet the Parents, and Hightower — a socialite, philanthropist and actress herself — sold the four-bedroom to a California-based trust linked to Rajit and Reena Agrawal.
It’s unclear who the buyers are and whether they will live in the roughly 6,000-square-foot duplex full time or use it as a pied-à-terre. The couple appears to live in the Silicon Valley-proximal town of Woodside, records show.
Both The Brentmore and the apartment itself have a storied past. The 12-story, 28-unit, Beaux-Arts style building between West 68th and West 69th streets has also been home to renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz and musicians Sting and Paul Simon.
As for the unit, De Niro bought the co-op from disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted in 2020 on charges of sexual assault, and his ex-wife and former assistant, Eve Chilton Weinstein, records show.
Attorneys at Midtown-based law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, who appear to have represented Hightower in the transaction, did not return a request for comment by press time, nor did attorneys at the Rockefeller Plaza-headquartered firm Citrin Cooperman, which appears to have represented De Niro.
