“Jessica Chastain’s search for a Manhattan home has ended in the perfect purchase, a historic apartment across the street from Carnegie Hall once owned by legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein,” writes Emily Smith in Wednesday’s (3/11) New York Post. “The Juilliard-trained, Oscar-nominated actress has spent over a year searching, but she’s settled on a $5.1 million pad at the famed Osborne Apartments on West 57th Street.… Chastain … bought it under a private trust with her Italian fashion-executive boyfriend, Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo…. It is claimed [Bernstein] wrote the songs for ‘West Side Story’ with Stephen Sondheim while living there. The show opened on Broadway in 1957. Bernstein, the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, lived in the apartment until 1974, when he sold it to cabaret star Bobby Short. The current seller is Adam Guettel, the Tony-winning composer of ‘The Light in the Piazza,’ grandson of Richard Rodgers and son of composer Mary Rodgers Guettel, who was chairman of Juilliard while Chastain was a student. The century-old, landmarked Osborne has been home to artists including pianist Van Cliburn, actresses Lynn Redgrave and Sylvia Miles, photographer Peter Beard and novelist Ira Levin, for whom the Osborne’s hallways reportedly inspired the setting of ‘Rosemary’s Baby.’ ”
Posted March 12, 2015
