Russian airport mogul Valery Kogan and his wife Olga have put their ornate palace at the Plaza Hotel back on the market for $33 million — down from its $50 million pre-pandemic ask.
The condo drips in so much gold that it puts even Donald Trump’s nearby Trump Tower triplex to shame.
At the same time, the Kogans have also slashed the price of their 40th-floor “mansion in the sky” penthouse at 15 Central Park West to $45 million following a broker swap earlier this month. The glitzy condo was asking $65 million earlier this year, and then $61.9 million before the current discount.
Finally, the couple have listed their Greenwich, Connecticut, estate at 18 Simmons Lane for $14.5 million, as is, or $24.5 million renovated.
So what do you get for $92.5 million worth of Big Apple trophy real estate, with a Greenwich mansion thrown in?
At the Plaza, the Kogans are selling a condo combo made up of two separate units, 1007 and 1009, that total 5,302 square feet — with its own castle-like turret. This time, despite the price cut, the sale also includes an additional one-bedroom apartment across the hall, unit 1008, that is 782 square feet. The combo unit features four bedrooms and 4½ baths, and is done in an over-the-top manner with 24-karat gold trim, exotic stone, Venetian plaster, vaulted ceilings, oversize windows, wall scones and custom cabinetry.
The home opens to a foyer that leads to a great room with high ceilings, paneled walls, crystal chandeliers and inlay floors. There’s also a corridor with a built-in bar and a formal dining room with columns overlooking Central Park. There’s even a main bedroom suite with a spa-like bath decked out in floor-to-ceiling onyx.
Meanwhile, the one-bedroom across the hall overlooks the garden and a courtyard. The unit features painted walls, crown moldings and walnut-bordered oak floors.
Over at 15 Central Park West, their penthouse comes with four bedrooms, and stunning panoramic park and city skyline views. Along with the 5,398-square-foot penthouse, the sale includes a 1,036-square-foot, one-bedroom, 1½-bath unit and a 412-square-foot studio — both on the sixth floor.
The penthouse opens from a private elevator landing to a marble and onyx entry foyer that leads to a living room with a fireplace and large windows. From there, the home heads to a dining room and a mahogany-walled office with pocket doors and an open chef’s kitchen. The main bedroom suite boasts a marble, spa-like bath with heated floors and a dressing room.
Douglas Elliman’s Adam Rothman and
Thomas Hochfelder are handling both the Plaza and 15 CPW sales. They declined to comment.
Finally, the Greenwich home, built in 1924, sits on 7 acres — and it could be a tear-down or subdivided, sources say. The listing brokers are Shelly Tretter Lynch and Jenny Allen of Compass. This home had quite the saga. The Kogans had first tried to build a massive mansion there, but their plans were foiled after years of battle with buttoned-up, horrified city power players who were shocked by the design, as chronicled by New York magazine back in 2009. The couple bought the property in Olga’s name for $18.5 million in 2005.
The Kogans sold their condo at 515 Park Ave. — where the feds seized sanctioned oligarch Viktor Vekselberg’s two units — for $14.5 million, as Gimme Shelter previously reported.
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