who made an estimated $9.5 million<\/a> through the \u201cname, image and likeness\u201d rules in the NCAA, entered the picture after the apartment went on the market in March.<\/p>\nThe building resident said they spotted Dunne and Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher and boyfriend Paul Skenes visiting the co-op in the run-up to the aborted sale \u2014 which the influencer said would be her \u201cfirst real estate purchase\u201d ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to admit, when I saw her from behind I didn\u2019t think she was an adult,\u201d the resident said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought she was a little boy. She\u2019s so little, like a child.\u201d<\/p>\n
Things apparently went well enough that Dunne said she and Skenes even hired an interior designer to decorate the apartment.<\/p>\n
A neighbor says the social media star messed up and the co-op board was pissed when she shared the video on her Instagram acount. MLB Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Dunne currently has 5.4 million followers on Instagram. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIt got to the point where the realtor was so confident, Paul and I went, I got an interior designer because I didn\u2019t want to bring my college furniture to Babe Ruth\u2019s apartment, that would be like, criminal,\u201d Dunne dished in her TikTok video.<\/p>\n
But the co-op board had other plans.<\/p>\n
Dunne said in her TikTok video that she learned the board denied her purchase, but she didn\u2019t know why other than it wasn\u2019t financial.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could have been, for all I know, they could have been Alabama fans and I went to LSU,\u201d Dunne quipped.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe they didn\u2019t want a public figure living there,\u201d she said, inching closer to the purported truth, \u201cbut I was literally supposed to get the keys and that week they denied me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruth lived at the apartment complex with his late second wife, Claire Merritt Ruth, and their late adopted daughter Julia Ruth Stevens, from 1920 to 1940. Getty Images<\/p>\n
A plaque is even dedicated to the Yankee great at 345 West 88th Street, before he moved to 173 Riverside Drive. CELESTE GODOY PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
The seller\u2019s agent from Compass said they were \u201call shocked and displeased\u201d by the board\u2019s rejection, and tried unsuccessfully to get them to reconsider.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe managing agent got back to me days later and said the board decision was final and that was it,\u201d the seller\u2019s agent said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe seller\u2019s real estate attorney liquidated (Dunne\u2019s) deposit and that was it and we\u2019re back on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n
The board doesn\u2019t have to disclose why they turned Dunne down, the agent noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is New York City, this is co-op stuff,\u201d said another building resident who declined to give her name.<\/p>\n
The seller\u2019s agent was in shock when the co-op board rejected Dunne\u2019s purchase of the property. CELESTE GODOY PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
One resident was notably bummed that Dunne won\u2019t be her neighbor while wishing her well after finding out her rejection from an online article posted by The Post. CELESTE GODOY PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s different than condo. It happens all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
One resident who only heard about the rejection from an online article from The Post was bummed to learn she was almost neighbors with the social media star.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish her well,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWho knows why they rejected her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dunne summed up her misadventure with a warning to her eight million TikTok followers.<\/p>\n
\u201cLong story short: don\u2019t try to live in a co-op,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou might get denied and you won\u2019t get Babe Ruth\u2019s apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n
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