Late US star Paul Newman's penthouse is selling at over $13m

The long-time Manhattan home of Hollywood icons Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, a sprawling penthouse at the exclusive 1120 Fifth Avenue housing cooperative that they had used as a pied-à-terre and to entertain fellow movie stars and other prominent guests, is on the market for the first time in four decades.

The asking price is US$9.95 million (S$13.4 million), with US$13,078 in monthly maintenance, according to Mr. Noble Black of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, who is listing the property with his colleague Jennifer Stillman.

The sale of the apartment is being handled by the couple's children on behalf of Woodward, 94, who has withdrawn from public life since being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007. Newman died of cancer in 2008 at 83.

Woodward remains at her long-time primary residence, in Westport, Connecticut, where she and Newman raised their daughters Nell, Melissa and Clea. They bought the penthouse, which has sweeping views of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park, in the early 1980s.

"It was really kind of their romantic spot," said their youngest daughter Clea Newman Soderlund, who heads the SeriousFun Children's Network, a camp programme for seriously ill children founded by Newman. "They would spend weeks at a clip there. They would go to the theatre or the opera or out to dinner with friends."

The apartment encompasses half the top floor of a 15-storey limestone cooperative building, designed by architect James E. R. Carpenter, erected in 1925 at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 93rd Street in Carnegie Hill. It has just under 3,000 sq ft of interior space, with two bedrooms and 2½ bathrooms, and two spacious terraces totaling about 2,300 sq ft.