Bill Cosby is looking to sell his second Lenox Hill mansion, which is stocked with several spacious parlors, as seen in this listing photo, amid an ongoing foreclosure fight.
Photo: Corcoran

Bill Cosby is selling his townhouse at 18 East 71st Street. The seven-story limestone and copper mansion, which the 88-year-old disgraced comedian and accused serial rapist bought in 1987, was listed with Corcoran on Friday for $29 million. The listing makes no mention of the seller, unsurprisingly.

The townhouse was a former private-school building before Cosby purchased it nearly 40 years ago for $6.2 million, apparently as a surprise for his wife, Camille. (Per the New York Observer, the property was originally purchased in the name of a former business partner before being transferred to his mother-in-law’s name and, finally, to the Cosbys.) First Foundation Bank foreclosed on the building last year after the Cosbys allegedly defaulted on $17.5. million in loans. According to a Manhattan Supreme Court foreclosure suit filed in December that names both Bill and Camille, the pair stopped making payments on the loans in June 2024 in addition to failing to pay over $300,000 in property taxes. (In legal filings, the Cosbys denied First Foundation’s claims.)

This is familiar terrain for the Cosby family: The former Cosby Show patriarch was hit with a foreclosure suit in December over a $4.2 million loan concerning another Lenox Hill mansion he owns at 243 East 61st Street. That home, which Cosby purchased in 1980, was listed back in April for $7 million while the foreclosure dispute was being hashed out in court, then took a nearly quarter-million-dollar price cut in July. (As for the East 61st Street foreclosure suit, the Cosbys claimed in legal filings that the property’s lender, CitiMortgage, miscalculated the amount owed.)

East 71st Street is fairly notorious at this point, through no fault of its own. In addition to Cosby, who was released from prison in 2021 following the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to overturn his sexual-assault conviction, Jeffrey Epstein’s former seven-story townhouse is just a few doors down at 9 East 71st Street. (A former Goldman Sachs executive picked up that one in 2021 for $51 million.) Viewings of No. 18 are, as one might expect, by appointment only.

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