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‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ house sells for $5.97 million

By: Gina Pace
Published: 4/25/2012Source: New York Daily News

Ever since 169 E. 71st St. went on the market last winter, you might have asked yourself, ’90s pop style, “What about [the house from] ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’?”

Well, the home that served as the façade for Holly Golighty's apartment, as well as the home of Peter E. Bacanovic, who was Martha Stewart’s stockbroker — and also served prison time as a result of her insider-trading scandal, recently sold for $5.97 million, according to The New York Observer.

The four-story brownstone, now used as two duplexes, was purchased by Cyprus-based Costalea Holdings Limited. Bacanovic bought the home for $1.8 million in 2000, according to The Observer.

Features of the property include five wood-burning fireplaces, a solarium and a large backyard for entertaining, according to the Corcoran listing.

Unfortunately for Audrey Hepburn fanatics, most of the scenes in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” were shot on a Hollywood soundstage, although Robert Browne, one of the listing brokers, told The New York Times that Bacanovic was sure that the scene where Golightly attends a party dressed in a bedsheet was shot in the living room of the house.

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