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Hollywood producer Scott Rudin has sold his downtown Manhattan townhouse for $19.75 million, according to records filed Tuesday with the city register.
That deal for the West Village property, at 22 Bank St., marks a $6.25 million discount off the $26 million that the Emmy-, Grammy-, Oscar-, and Tony-winning Rudin and his husband, the Broadway publicist John Barlow, initially sought in 2023.
It didn’t take long for the 4,000-square-foot spread to begin undergoing rounds of price cuts. StreetEasy shows the 19th-century spread first lowered its price to $23.75 million in September 2023 — six months after it first listed. From that point forward, it saw three subsequent discounts to its most recent asking price of $19.75 million — the price for which it sold.
The new owner made the purchase via a limited liability company and could not immediately be identified. Corcoran’s Deborah Grubman represented the listing; the brokerage declined to comment on the deal.
Rudin and Barlow paid $17.4 million for the townhouse in 2019. They purchased it from former Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter.
Two years later, Rudin took a step back from some of his theatrical work and issued an apology following the publication of a damning Hollywood Reporter article detailing his allegedly abusive behavior to staffers. That same year, members of New York’s theater community marched down Broadway to protest Rudin’s alleged improprieties.
On Broadway, Rudin’s credits include “The Book of Mormon.” On screen, they include “The Social Network” and “School of Rock.”
The 19-foot-wide structure was built between 1844 and 1845, according to the listing, which adds it comes with a 42-foot-long garden.
The parlor level has 11-foot ceilings, as well as a great room with two fireplaces. Elsewhere, a formal dining room has a gas fireplace — and the chef’s kitchen, with two dishwashers, has a large marble island.
The second floor has two bedrooms, with the front room overlooking Bank Street. The top floor is the primary suite, complete with a dressing room and a terrace overlooking the neighboring townhouse gardens. Meanwhile, the cellar level can accommodate a gym or a yoga studio.
This listing had the potential to be combined with the neighboring townhouse at No. 20. That would have cost a buyer $37 million and given some 7,600 square feet of combined living space.
However, the buyer of this home didn’t also snag the neighboring one. No. 20 remains for sale asking $10 million, according to StreetEasy, down from its initial $15 million in early 2024.