EXCLUSIVE: Yoko Ono drops lawsuit against co-op board after selling West Village penthouse for $8.3M
The widow of John Lennon had sued for $6.7 million, saying the board members sabotaged a deal to sell the apartment she has owned since 1995. Ono withdrew the suit last month, a day after she sold the 49 Downing St. penthouse for $8.3 million, the Daily News has learned.
BY DAREH GREGORIAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, May 26, 2014
Yoko Ono is giving peace a chance.
The artist and widow of John Lennon withdrew her $6.7 million lawsuit against a West Village co-op board last month, a day after she sold her apartment there for a more-than-expected $8.3 million, the Daily News has learned.
“Everybody is happy and we’re getting along,” said Ono’s lawyer, Larry Hutcher.
Ono, 81, filed the big-bucks suit last year against the board of Stable 49, a small apartment building at 49 Downing St., charging they’d been making it impossible for her to sell her long-vacant penthouse apartment there.
Yoko Ono purchased the penthouse apartment at 49 Downing St. for her son, Sean Lennon (left), who lived there for a few years, according to the withdrawn lawsuit.
“The board has done everything within its power to keep the penthouse empty by singling out and prejudicing Ms. Ono,” including announcing new rules that would make it difficult for any prospective buyer to renovate the 5,710-square-foot apartment, the suit said.
Ono has owned the apartment since 1995.
“Ms. Ono has never lived in the penthouse. She purchased the penthouse for her son, who lived there for a few years,” the filing says, referring to Sean Lennon, her son with John Lennon.
Ono, 81, filed the suit last year against the board of Stable 49, charging they’d been making it impossible for her to sell the long-vacant penthouse apartment.
Ono still lives in the Dakota on the Upper West Side, which she shared with the Beatle until he was murdered outside the building in 1980.
She dutifully paid maintenance and common charges on the Village property. But board members still intentionally sabotaged a $6.6 million deal to sell the apartment to a young family with children last year, the suit charged.
Ono sued for the $6.6 million, plus another $100,000 in damages.
Board members intentionally sabotaged a $6.6 million deal to sell the apartment to a young family with children last year, the suit charged.
The scuttled sale wound up working out to her benefit. Records show the apartment sold last month for $8.3 million. The buyer was not identified. Ono dropped the suit the next day, April 9.
“Yoko was able to sell the apartment and as a result of the board approving the sale, we withdrew the suit,” Hutcher said. “It worked out. She’s very happy with the result.”
The board had announced new rules that would make it difficult for any prospective buyer to renovate the 5,710-square-foot apartment, the suit said.
Ono finally sold the apartment for $8.3 million last month, her lawyer told the Daily News
“It worked out. She’s very happy with the result,” said lawyer Larry Hutcher
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