Richard Gere

Still reeling from getting dissed by the Material Girl herself, Julian Schnabel's "Pompeii Red" Pallazzo Chupi in the West Village is losing one of its biggest celebrities (heck, it's only celebrity, really). Richard Gere has been quietly marketing his "massive 4BR, 4BA spread in the Chupster for about a month now, through Sotheby's broker Debbie Korb," Curbed reported today.

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Reports have been saying for a month or so that handsome hippy thespian Richard Gere has bought into Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chuppi at 360 West 11th Street. But city records filed today reveal the purchase price: $12 million.

That means Mr. Gere still has $850,000 left over from the record-setting sale of his Sullivan Street townhouse. Maybe he'll use the bonus funds to build a rooftop Buddhist temple like the one he had on Sullivan (city building permits called it a “penthouse ‘meditation room’ made of wood frame.”)

After all, Mr. Gere bought his piece of the Palazzo through his old Tushita Trust, named for a kind of Buddhist heaven.

When The Post reported earlier this week that Richard Gere wanted to buy into Julian Schnabel’s glorious new Palazzo Chupi in the far West Village, they said the Buddhist thespian needed to sell his Sullivan Street townhouse before he could afford a new place with Schnabel.

But as we pointed out Wednesday, Mr. Gere actually sold his Sullivan townhouse ages ago--and for a record price. So naturally news comes today, from the Wall Street Journal, that the actor has gone and bought a sprawl at Chupi (which Mr. Schnabel oddly insists is not pink but red.)

Sadly, no Gere purchase price is given.

Is he somehow a more appropriate buyer than the banker William J.B. Brady? When The Observer reported that Mr. Brady had paid $15.5 million for the first Chupi apartment, Curbed pointed out that Mr. Schnabel’s building “was supposed to be the rebirth of the salon--an exclusive enclave of the most talented and creative (and wealthy) minds around."

We were surprised to see more speculation in this morning's Post about tenants in Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chupi on West 11th Street. This time it’s Richard Gere and wife, Carey Lowell, who have reportedly been seen in the West Village building “numerous times in the past few days”.

This may be the case, but the Post’s claim that Mr. Gere will first have to sell his Sullivan Street townhouse to buy one of Mr. Schnabel’s condos is way off base. Mr. Gere’s already sold that townhouse for a record $12.85 million, and we reported on the sale in June (and also in May, before it closed).

There is no end to the rumors about Schnabel’s pricey digs. The Post also mentions the reports from The Villager newspaper that Bono has purchased a place in the building. As we reported earlier this week, no city records show evidence of that sale.

In fact, there's been one official sale in the Palazzo Chupi. Read about it here.

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