After a very long time, Helen Gurley Brown's Manhattan Penthouse is finally listed for a hefty $20 Million.
According to toptenrealestatedeals.com, for the first time in 40 years, Helen Gurley Brown's quadruplex penthouse flat in the Southeast tower of the Beresford on Central Park West is now on sale and the asking price is no less than $20 million. For that price, the prospective buyer will be looking at a full degree grand view of Central Park, Hudson River and the city skyline from a private terrace with access to a private elevator.
The exact span of the property was not indicated but it includes two bedrooms, four baths, large formal rooms with high 10.5-foot ceilings and a wrap-around balcony. There is a master's bedroom on the third floor that has access to a 52-foot terrace overseeing Central Park. There is also a grand room with 17-foot ceilings and a fireplace. It is assumed that a contract is now in the works.
Brown is known as the country's highest and most talented writer. She moved to California from Arkansas at age 15 following the death of her politician father. She had worked as a secretary at several Los Angeles ad agencies until she got her big break in 1962 when her book "Sex and the Single Girl" became a best seller. The book later on was adopted to film that movie star. Natalie Wood.
According to toptenrealestatedeals.com, three years later she became editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, where she remained editor-in-chief for 32 years, while she continued writing continued writing books instructing women how to "have it all" as they moved into their 60s and beyond. She is the one responsible for overhauling the Cosmopolitan magazine from a family and literary publication to a women's magazine that featured a lot of sex, sensationalism and fashion. She died at 90 in New York City two years after her husband, film producer David Brown passed away.
