There Goes the Schneighborhood

Richard Gere has put his apartment in Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chupi on the market, private-equity execs come down to earth, Sam Zell continues to be wacky, and Jeff Zucker and Harvey Weinstein fight like a couple of queens over 'Project Runway' in our daily roundup of real-estate, finance, media and law news.

Posted 04/08/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town

Tags: bono, cnn, company town, harvey weinstein, jackie robinson, jeff zucker, john mack, julian schnabel, leon black, linens n things, mrogan stanley, nbc, palazzo chupi, project runway, richard gere, sam zell, shea stadium, wienstien company, william jb brady

‘Schneighbors’ No More?

Friends, we have sad news. Last night at the GQ Man of the Year awards in Los Angeles, a member of Intel's West Coast bureau — okay, fine, kidding, we don't have a West Coast bureau; it was a USC journalism student named David Davin — intercepted auteur and art legend Julian Schnabel and asked him, quakingly, about his West Village development, Palazzo Chupi. Occupied by Schnabel, Richard Gere, and Credit Suisse cheese William J.B. Brady, the ginormous pink building is not only a monument to midlife crisis, it's the set of Intel's favorite (pretend) reality show, Schneighbors, which is why we were so excited when we heard that Bono had bought one of the two remaining condos. But we couldn't find any records of the sale, so…did he? "No, Bono is not going to be there," Schnabel said. He was wearing green sneakers, a bathrobe, and yellow-tinted glasses, and as he shuffled away he seemed oblivious to the fact that, 3,000 miles away, our hearts were shattering into a million pieces. But then we looked on the bright side: Could not Bono's loss be Salman Rushdie's gain? Related: Look Who's Schneighbors!

Posted 12/06/07 in Daily Intel : Developing

Tags: bono, developing, julian schnabel, palazzo chupi, salman rushdie, william j.b. brady