The charming NYC home of the late Mica and Ahmet Ertegun has sold for $9.3M — just weeks before major Christie’s auction

The double-townhouse residence of nan precocious jet-setting mates Mica and Ahmet Ertegun has sold for $9.3 million, Gimme Shelter has learned. The proceeds of nan sale, astatine 121-125 E. 81st., went to their charity, said brokers progressive successful nan deal.

The location was asking $12.9 million.

Mica, a noted interior designer who fled Romania aft nan Communists came to powerfulness and imprisoned her father, died past December astatine property 97. Ahmet, who died successful 2006 astatine property 83 pursuing a encephalon injury, was nan co-founder of Atlantic Records. He steered nan careers of talents from Aretha Franklin to nan Rolling Stones; Mica’s clients included finance figures for illustration Sandy Weill and stone stars for illustration Keith Richards.

The mates had homes successful New York City, Southampton, Paris and Bodrum — a coastal metropolis successful Ahmet’s autochthonal Turkey.

The waste comes conscionable successful beforehand of a highly anticipated auction that focuses connected Mica. In November, Christie’s will auction her collections of jewelry and creation — including a René Magritte coating estimated to fetch much than $95 million. 

Ahmet was Mica’s 2nd husband. She first joined astatine property 16 to a Romanian aristocrat who was 15 years older. They fled Romania pinch nan country’s royal family and went first to Switzerland, past Paris, wherever Mica modeled, and past to Canada — wherever Mica collected and packed eggs connected a Lake Ontario chickenhearted workplace earlier getting a divorcement and marrying Ahmet.

During their 45-year marriage, nan Erteguns were known for hosting fabulous parties wherever worlds of art, politics, euphony and much would collide — moreover arsenic Ahmet’s emotion affairs extracurricular nan matrimony were an unfastened secret. 

“I ne'er minded, because I knew it wasn’t against me,” she erstwhile said. “I knew I was nan champion point successful his life.” 

The five-story, five-bedroom, 8½-bathroom location is 37 feet wide. It was primitively built successful 1899.

The 2 homes are conjoined astatine nan 3rd and 4th floors, and characteristic 20 rooms each together, though they stay connected 2 abstracted taxation lots. The existent configuration includes a abstracted duplex agency unit, zoned commercial, connected nan crushed and parlor floors of 125 E. 81st St.

Neither townhouse is landmarked.

The listing brokers were Leslie J. Garfield’s Lydia Rosengarten and Jed Garfield and Douglas Elliman’s Lauren Muss.