Linda Evangelista Sells Her Chelsea Penthouse Loft for $6.75 million

Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images, LoopNet “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day,” Linda Evangelista infamously told Vogue in 1990. It was a spicy claim, but not a total shocker: The Canadian-born supermodel — along with her fellow “Trinity” members Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington — was a constant presence on runways and magazine covers, and the reason countless women asked their hairdressers for pixie cuts. In recent months, as she tried to sell her Chelsea penthouse loft of more than two decades, however, Evangelista faced a set of supply-and-demand forces that were tilted a little less in her favor. After putting the four-bedroom, two-bathroom in the Spears Building on the market for nearly $9.5 million back in 2024, she came down to just shy of $8 million in January. This month, according to property records, she finally sold the apartment for $6.75 million, a nearly 30 percent cut. Of course, that still left her with a huge upside. Evangelista had lived in the 4,000-square-foot loft in the converted furniture warehouse since 2001, when she reportedly paid $2.4 million — or about 140 days of waking up in 1990 — and then fitted it out in the industrial style of the day. The floor is polished concrete, with exposed brick and butcher-block countertops in the pass-through kitchen. A trio of skylights are carved into the 13-foot ceilings, including one in the cavernous great room with its working fireplace. The primary bedroom overlooks the High Line, with an en-suite bathroom that has a separate soaking tub and glass shower stall. As for the 17 (give or take) closets, including the six floor-to-ceiling ones in the (oddly dark) dressing area—well, a model has a lot of clothes. Linda Evangelista’s Chelsea loft, as seen in this listing photo, was fitted in the industrial style of her heyday. Photo: Corcoran The original listing for the apartment leans particularly hard on the “private oasis” upstairs — a 2,500-square-foot roof terrace with skyline views that, some years back, turned into a huge headache for Evangelista. In 2015, the condo board tried to foist the $1.5 million cost for replacing the roof entirely onto the owners of the building’s six penthouses, arguing that the deeded private terraces on said roof were theirs alone rather than divvying up the charges among the building’s 30 units. (Evangelista and her upper-floor neighbors, including the former Rag & Bone co-CEO David Neville and the makeup designer Gucci Westman, took the case to court, and it ended with an undisclosed settlement.) She was also sued by the building in 2023, having allegedly racked up $237,000 in unpaid condo fees and failed to maintain her apartment in “first-class condition.” (That suit was also settled.) Her loft was in decent enough shape this past September that Keanu Reeves reportedly paid $45,000 a month to stay there with his partner, Alexandra Grant, while making his most excellent Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot with Alex Winter. (The decor does have a little bit of a Matrix vibe.) Corcoran’s Steve Gold, who had the listing, did not respond to requests for comment about the sale, but Evangelista appears to have followed the High Line north to her next home. According to property records, she paid $5.2 million in March 2025 for a highly amenitized three-bedroom corner unit at 35 Hudson Yards, with floor-to-ceiling windows facing the Hudson and an Equinox downstairs. Maybe you’ll spot her shopping at the local Zara. Evangelista’s loft, as seen in this listing photo, feels a little Matrix-y with its polished concrete and monochromatic palette. Photo: Corcoran The loft’s primary bedroom, as seen in this listing photo, feels pretty airy thanks to the double exposures and 13-foot ceilings. Photo: Corcoran Linda Evangelista Sells Her Chelsea Loft for $6.75 million Your product is saved! You’ll receive emails when your saved products go on sale. Manage preferences.