The gilded Upper East Side townhouse that once served as the personal palace of Ivana Trump has finally traded hands — at a fraction of its original ambitions.
The five-story limestone residence sold for $14 million, according to the Wall Street Journal, a sharp decline from the $26.5 million ask it first sought when it hit the market after Ivana’s 2022 death.
By the end of its run, the asking price had been trimmed to $17.9 million, The Post previously reported, underscoring how even trophy addresses between Fifth and Madison avenues are not immune to price reality.
A Monday listing update on StreetEasy said the home had entered contract — but the identity of the new owner is not immediately known.
Ivana purchased the roughly 8,725-square-foot property in 1992 for about $2.5 million, the year her divorce from Donald Trump was finalized, according to public records.
She undertook an extensive, and over-the-top, redesign, layering the interiors with pink marble, animal prints, crystal chandeliers and heavy gilt detailing — a look that was unapologetically maximalist.
Their children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, spent their teenage years in the townhouse.
The home is currently arranged with five bedrooms. The primary suite features a gold-embossed fireplace and Chinese-style wall murals. Two formal entertaining rooms anchor the layout, but there is no full-scale chef’s kitchen – only a pair of compact galley kitchens, reflecting a lifestyle more focused on hosting than home cooking.
After Ivana died following an accidental fall on the townhouse’s staircase, the property entered a cooling luxury market that has forced sellers of highly customized homes to temper their expectations.
Still, the sale adds to a recent cluster of Upper East Side townhouse sales; just one block away, a property seeking $39.5 million has already found a buyer.
“My mom absolutely loved that house,” Eric Trump told the Journal in 2022, recalling the gatherings she hosted for actors and royalty. “She was so comfortable there.” The opulence, he said, “embodied Ivana Trump.”
“She used to go out on the private balcony every morning with coffee and she’d read the paper,” Eric recalled.
In her 2017 memoir, “Raising Trump,” Ivana described her aesthetic as “luxurious” and “whimsical.”
She wrote that one of the living rooms captured “how Louis XVI would have lived if he had had money.”
Her closet, she said, stretched on so extensively that it felt borderless: “I call it Indochine, because by the time you get to the end of it, you might as well be in another continent.”
What had once been Donald Trump Jr.’s bedroom was later transformed into a private fitness room, where Ivana Trump spent hours on a treadmill deliberately angled toward the townhouse across the street owned by Donatella Versace.
“They loved each other,” Eric Trump said, recalling how his mother would wave mid-workout and Versace would wave back.
Listing agent Adam Modlin represented both sides of the transaction but declined further comment. The Trump family could not immediately be reached.
