New love nest? Jeff Bezos shells out a cool $80million for three adjoining Manhattan apartments with 12 bedrooms across 17,000 square feet
- Jeff Bezos has reportedly purchased a three-floor penthouse as well as the two units directly below it in a building overlooking Madison Square Park
- The deal set to close Tuesday is rumored to be one of the priciest real estate transactions in Manhattan this year
- The combined space at 212 Fifth Avenue has 12 bedrooms and multiple terraces
- It could become a love nest for the Amazon CEO and Lauren Sanchez
- The couple were spotted sunning themselves in Key West, Florida, this week
Jeff Bezos has reportedly bought three apartments in Manhattan overlooking Madison Square Park for a cool $80million.
The Amazon CEO's pricey purchase is said to include a three-floor penthouse apartment, as well as the two units directly below it, according to the Wall Street Journal.
An appraiser told the newspaper that the deal set to close on Tuesday will likely be one of the priciest real estate transactions in Manhattan this year.
The space, which covers a combined 17,000-square-feet with 12 bedrooms and multiple terraces, may become a love nest for Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, whose alleged affair was revealed earlier this year via a chain of leaked sext messages.
Jeff Bezos is reportedly closing a deal on three adjoining apartments in Manhattan overlooking Madison Square Park for a cool $80million. The building at 212 Fifth Avenue is seen above
The pricey purchase is said to include a three-floor penthouse flat and two units below it
The space may become a love nest for Bezos and Lauren Sanchez (above in 2016), who were seen sunning themselves in Key West, Florida, this week
The couple, who were both married to other people when they first got involved, were spotted soaking up the sun in Key West this week.
Bezos finalized his divorce from wife of 25 years MacKenzie in April.
The CEO worth more than $100billion had reportedly been looking for a new home in New York City 'for months'. In February his company abandoned plans to open its second headquarters in Queens.
He already owns an apartment overlooking Central Park, along with four other impressive properties across California, Texas, Washington state and Washington, DC.
The new space in Manhattan's Flatiron neighborhood is housed at 212 Fifth Avenue, a building which offers a fitness center, golf simulator, game room and movie screening room.
The three units with a total of 12 bedrooms span a whopping 17,000 square feet altogether
The deal set to close Tuesday is rumored to be one of the priciest real estate transactions in Manhattan this year. Two interior shots from the apartments are shown above
Bezos finalized his divorce from wife of 25 years MacKenzie (above together in 2018) in April
Bezos' affair with Sanchez made its way back into national headlines this week as a Saudi activist who helped to aid an investigation into Saudi Arabia's role in leaking the couples texts six months ago said he's now left fearing for his life.
Iyad el-Baghdadi revealed he's received death threats from the Saudi Crown regime following information provided to him by the CIA.
El-Baghdadi had been investigating a number of Twitter accounts controlled by the state and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), as part of an investigation into how the National Enquirer came to be in possession of Bezos' texts for their shock expose in January.
The Twitter handles first started hitting-out at Bezos in response to the Washington Post – who are owned by the Amazon entrepreneur – and their coverage of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
Of the tirade of tweets, el-Baghdadi said on his website: '[Bezos] stood by the Washington Post and its reporting on [Khashoggi's] murder. MBS saw this as betrayal, and it seems MBS . . . exploited . . . their Twitter networks, their cyber capabilities, their friends in DC to unleash a series of actions aimed at punishing Jeff Bezos.'
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Iyad el-Baghdadi, a Saudi activist who helped to aid an investigation into Saudi Arabia 's role in leaking texts between Bezos and Sanchez six months ago, revealed Tuesday that he's received death threats from the Saudi Crown regime
El-Baghdadi added that he'd been informed by a whistleblower that MBS was also targeting Washington Post journalists 'to expose either sexual or financial scandals'.
Bezos' head of security, Gavin de Becker, contacted the activist and asked him to join the probe. They later concluded 'the Saudis were inside Jeff Bezos' phone.'
The Department of Justice were then handed over their findings and shortly afterwards, on April 25, el-Baghdadi – who is seeking asylum in Norway – received a troubling knock at the door.
Norwegian authorities swiftly whisked him away to a secure location, telling him they believed he could be in imminent danger from a threat believed to be emanating from the Saudi kingdom.
'It was during my work on the Bezos investigation that I felt I had crosshairs on my back...Given [that] the warning of the threats came from [the CIA, it] means this is very serious,' el-Baghdadi remarked.
Born in Palestine, el-Baghdadi is a writer and fierce critic of MBS who rose to prominence during the Arab Spring after his contemporaneous social media coverage of the Egyptian uprising.
As a result of his sarcastic takedowns of autocratic leaders, he has since gained more than 132,000 Twitter followers. But in 2015 he was arrested and expulsed from the United Arab Emirates, forcing him to leave without formal charges or a trial.
And last year, after the murder of Saudi Washington Post journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, el-Baghdadi warned in a tweet that MBS would only become more dangerous if the western world failed to hold him accountable.
'If they get away with kidnapping the next step will be assassinations in your capitals, and I'm not joking even a little bit,' he said.
