Jessica Chastain, star of “A Most Violent Year” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” has purchased a four-bedroom duplex at The Osborne for $5.2M.
Located on the corner of West 57th and 7th Avenue, just kitty-corner from Carnegie Hall, The Osborne has been home to quite a cast of celebrities and big names in the entertainment business over the years. With the recent purchase, Chastain and her boyfriend Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, an Italian fashion executive at Moncler, will now add their names to the list of famous Osborne residents.
In fact, according to Page Six, the very unit Chastain purchased has an incredible lineage of celebrity owners. Up until 1974, the apartment was owned by Leonard Bernstein, the legendary composer/conductor and the former director of the New York Philharmonic. According to local lore and co-op board legend, Bernstein wrote songs for “West Side Story” with Stephen Sondheim while he resided there.
Bernstein later sold the unit to Bobby Short, a vaunted cabaret star and mainstay on the piano at the Cafe Carlyle during the 1970s and 80s. The unit most recently was owned by Adam Guettel, the Tony-winning composer for “The Light in the Piazza” and grandson of Richard Rodgers, of, you guessed it, Rodgers and Hammerstein fame. Guettel’s mother, Mary Rodgers, was no schlemiel herself and also made a name for herself in entertainment and the arts as the composer of the musical comedy “Once Upon a Mattress,” author of the classic children’s book “Freak Friday” and former chairwoman of the Juillard School here in New York City.
The interconnecting web of talent associated with Chastain’s apartment at the Osborne gets even more layered. Chastain, it just so happens, was a student at Juillard under Mary Rodgers’ tenure. It is all too fitting, then, that the star, known for her work both on screen and on stage, has now found a home at an apartment so intimately steeped in the history and heritage of the New York arts scene.
And make no mistake, the design and decor of this apartment knows how to do drama too. The four bedroom duplex showcases all the grandeur of old-time New York luxury apartment buildings and features 14-foot ceilings, Tiffany stained glass, inlaid parquet floors, five ornate fireplaces and a wrought iron grand staircase. Between the amenities of the residence and the accolades of the current resident, it’s hard to say who upstages whom.
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