One of America’s most prolific television producers and political activist Norman Lear – who turns 100 in July – and his wife Lyn Davis...
One of America’s most prolific television producers and political activist Norman Lear – who turns 100 in July – and his wife Lyn Davis Lear have just sold their posh apartment at 15 Central Park West for $17.5 million under an off-market deal, according to property records.
They were the building’s first buyers, paying $10 million for the 38th-floor unit in 2008.
Lear – who has won five Emmys, a National Medal of Arts and is in the Television Hall of Fame – has created more than 100 television shows, including classics like “All in the Family”, “Sanford and Sons “, “Good Times”, “One day at a time”, “Maude” and “The Jeffersons”.
The two-bedroom, two-bath unit measures 2,367 square feet and was signed in 2006.
This year, the couple were interviewed on how to have a successful marriage; it is Lear’s third. The response includes lots of laughs — as well as a focus on children, spirituality and some psychedelics, they said.
In 1980 Lear founded People for the American Way. In 2001, the Lears bought a Dunlap broadside, one of the earliest published copies of the Declaration of Independence, for $8.1 million and toured with it.
In 2001, he also co-produced a filmed and dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence with Rob Reiner at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
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