An American comedian, actress and talk show host who said she has moved to Ireland for political reasons has now officially parted with her Manhattan penthouse, city records show.
Rosie O’Donnell, who had her own syndicated daytime talk show, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, before serving as a host on The View for several years, has sold her condo in Turtle Bay for $4.8 million, according to a deed that appeared in the city register Wednesday.
The former Flintstones star signed the documents herself, using her formal name Roseann, offloading the four-bedroom, three-bathroom triplex in the condo building known as Sterling Plaza. O’Donnell purchased the roughly 3,400-square-foot pad with panoramic views of the city skyline and a private balcony for $8 million in 2017 and used it as her primary residence, The New York Times reported.
She first listed the unit for $8.3 million in 2023. She slashed 4% off the price several months later before taking it off the market and listing it again last April for $7.5 million. O’Donnell then cut an additional 8% off the price last summer before finally finding a buyer in March, according to information from StreetEasy.
Corcoran’s Caroline Bass, the broker for the unit, which ultimately sold at a more than 40% loss, did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
The buyer of the penthouse is unclear. It was purchased through the private entity Sky Space LLC, which is linked to a condo at the Four Seasons Residences in Miami, records show.
Scott Claman, an attorney at Midtown-based law firm Giddins Claman, who represented the buyer, declined to share their identity, although he gave away one hint.
“Given the seller, it certainly wasn’t Donald Trump,” Claman told Crain’s Thursday.
O’Donnell has long sparred with the now-president, perhaps most memorably in the early aughts when she called him a “snake-oil salesman” over his decision not to fire Tara Conner as the co-owner of the Miss USA pageant after a public scandal, according to reports at the time. Trump then fired back, reportedly calling O’Donnell a loser and hurling other insults at her. Their animosity toward each other has continued to this day.
Most recently, O’Donnell moved to the Emerald Isle with her youngest child, Clay — who is autistic and nonbinary — in an effort to protect them from many of the Trump administration’s policies, O’Donnell explained in a recent TikTok video. She left the states with Clay in January, shortly before Trump’s second inauguration, and she said she is currently in the process of getting her Irish citizenship as the grandchild of Irish citizens.
