Frank Sinatra Manhattan Penthouse Sold For $4.9 Million

Once home to legendary Frank Sinatra, the luxury Manhattan penthouse at 530 East 72 Street is officially off the market. The 3,200-square-foot duplex had been on the market since late 2013 at $5.6 million and has recently been sold for $4.9 million through Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

The upscale pad features 4-bedrooms, 6-baths, glass walls, two wrap-around terraces that overlook the East River and FDR Drive, 18' ceilings, solar panels and a putting green. Since 2010, the apartment was owned by Penny Hart, the president of Tri-State Consumer Insurance.

In 2008, the property underwent extensive renovations and updates were made to the home of the late musician, Sinatra.  It was in the 1940s when Frank Sinatra came to be known as the "it" man of New York, having been born and raised in an Italian family nearby Hoboken, New Jersey.

Sinatra began singing in his high school glee club and in radio performances throughout Manhattan, going on to become the lead singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras, and eventually landing himself a stream of steady show spots at New York's Paramount Theater.

In 1943, the singer had his solo debut at New York's Madison Square Gardens and a year later, an encore performance at the Paramount that would catch the attention of 35,000 fans. During the early 1940s, Sinatra recorded 23 Billboard Top 10 hit songs, solidifying his status as the most popular singer in New York, as well as in the U.S. 

After several television and movie acts in Hollywood and his time spent in the Rat Pack in Las Vegas, Sinatra became the owner of a film company, a record company, a private airline, a missile-parts firm, and acquired and owned a slew of real estate properties throughout the country. His personal staffing alone was comprised of seventy-five people.

It was in 1961 when the star became the owner of the Manhattan penthouse, along with wife Mia Farrow, while the two split their time living bicoastal. The couple loved to entertain and held parties at the duplex with guests including President John F. Kennedy, Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe.

Warhol had once stated the apartment was the "glittering grotto in the sky." However, with the subsequent divorce between Farrow and Sinatra, the apartment was sold to Andy Warhol's doctor in 1972.