Muppet Mansion Sells at a Discount

Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog unveil the Jim Henson commemorative stamp collection at the Academy of Television Arts an...

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By Amy Zimmer

DNAinfo News Editor

MANHATTAN — The so-called Muppet Mansion on the Upper East Side, once owned by Muppets creator Jim Henson, was sold for $23 million — a 20 percent loss for its more recent owner, Seagrams heir and Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., the New York Observer reported.

Bronfman, who reportedly sold the home at 117 E. 69th St. because he moved to London, had put the 82-year-old Neo-Georgian townhouse he bought for $28.5 million in 2008 on the market for $27.5 million nearly a month ago.

The buyer tried to keep a cloak of anonymity by using the LLC name of Statler, the skinny muppet who heckles from the theater box, but the Observer traced the deed to Jesse Angelo, editor of Rupert Murdoch's iPad venture, The Daily.

Angelo's previous purchase was a reported $1.9 million for an apartment in the Meatpacking District's Porter House.