A boutique Manhattan condo building that drew celebrity buyers including Chelsea Clinton, NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon and Jennifer Lopez also had an unlikely early investor: convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Documents from the recently released Epstein files reveal that the disgraced, and deceased, financier quietly backed the luxury conversion of 21 E. 26th St. in NoMad, a historic property overlooking Madison Square Park later marketed as the Whitman.
The five-story Neo-Georgian building was transformed into just four full-floor residences and a duplex penthouse, a design that helped lure a roster of high-profile buyers when sales launched in 2013, according to the Real Deal, which first reported this news.
Behind the scenes, however, emails show developer David Mitchell offered Epstein an unusually favorable entry into the project years earlier.
Epstein ultimately committed roughly $920,000 through a stake in the project’s sponsor entity and a smaller limited-partner investment — a structure that gave him access to profits typically reserved for developers.
The financier appeared to move quickly.
“I’m closing today on your deal, with no due diligence. I am merely relying on your representations. thanks and good luck,” Epstein wrote in a message to Mitchell.
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