Tasteful Friends-8 E 62nd St, New York, NY 10065

The former Inga Banasevich, at home.

Inga Banasewycz, then 19, met her aging sugar daddy, Orhan Sadik-Khan, at a dinner in 1990 at Tavern on the Green. In the lawsuit Banasewycz would file against Sadik-Khan, she said that their relationship was “purely sexual.” Sadik-Khan’s “appetite for sex was insatiable,” and he sought “control over every aspect” of her life so she would be available to him “whenever he wanted her.”

In February 1997, Sadik-Khan rented Inga an apartment at the Galleria, insisting, she claimed in her suit, that she remain home at all times so he could have sex on demand. She charged he sneaked in and penetrated her while she slept, would pretend to be an infant and suckle at her breasts for three hours at a time, begged her to procure other women for group sex, flew home from vacations just to have sex with her, took hundreds of nude photos of her, asked her to describe sex with other men, and insisted that she have “wild” sex with him in his wife’s bed in Greenwich. Sadik-Khan begged her to have a baby, she asserted, promising her $1 million if she did, and repeatedly told her that he “wanted to spend the rest of his life with her, and that if she remained with him, she would be financially secure for life.” Yet when she twice got pregnant, she claims he demanded she have abortions. And finally, when she again begged to work, she says he promised her $500,000 if she wouldn’t.

Sadik-Khan’s lawyer declined, on behalf of his client, to comment.

“What she did is pure extortion,” says a Russian model. “She lived a free life; he was supporting her. She didn’t want a career. These girls don’t work nine to five. It’s not their thing.”

Finally, in February, Banasewycz’s complaint concludes, Sadik-Khan “abruptly terminated the relationship, telling her he was ‘through with her.’ ” Curiously, Gvordetskaya disputes that, saying Inga broke up with him. “She wanted to do things; she is very ambitious; he was controlling her; so that’s all,” she says. “She just got sick of it. She was like his second wife. So it’s like any divorce. It just wasn’t an official marriage.”

Banasewycz: “I can sue, too!” she announced. “Go to the newspaper! Put him in shame!”

And so it was only a matter of days before news of Banasewycz v. Sadik-Khan, a $3.5 million lawsuit that read like a porn novel, put the stunning ex-Soviets back in the tabloid glare.

And now she;'s the queen of society!

And now she's the queen of society!

"In 2002, real estate lawyer Keith G. Rubenstein, eager to bolster his shaky finances, signed on to an unusual arrangement to serve as a front for a personal injury practice owned by a non-lawyer entrepreneur who made his fortune in taxicab medallions. Now, a New York court has disbarred Rubenstein, finding that the deal violated several disciplinary rules involving fee-splitting with non-lawyers, aiding the unauthorized practice of law, paying for client referrals and filing false retainer agreements."

Inga sort of gives me Svetlana the Handjob Whore from [italic]Shameless.[/italic]

I’m disturbed by that pile of stuffed animals in photo number 13. What does Goofy have to do with all of this? No, don’t tell me; I don’t want to know.

The Zillow estimate is $22.4 million. Ha ha.

Only in America, the land of opportunity, could they aspire to be vairst letty

Ha,, that New York magazine article (from 1998 by Michael Gross) is practically a profile of “When Melania Met Donald”.

[quote]Russians are so competitive. Whose boyfriend gives them more? ‘You got a bag? I got a car!’ “

[quote]The men they meet, of course, are playing hard, too. “They think they’re running a game on us,” says a young investment banker. “They hang out; they shake their titties. They’re only after money, so we flash some, we fuck ‘em, and we dump ‘em. We trade ‘em like stocks. We teach ‘em American capitalism at its best.”

But Trump was too stupid to dump.

It's a grand house on a beautiful block that has been vulgarized quite thoroughly.

I like all the period detail that they have retained, most of the light fittings are great too. They actually did a good job of restoring this, and mostly didnt fuck it up lke so many I've seen on here. The furniture and art will go when the current owner moves out, and I wouldnt miss most of it, thats where the bulk of the vulgarity lies. Easy enough to find furniture that fits the period house was built, it will be stunning then

Yes, but the facade is a bit much.

You'd think people would know better than to write "Forever" over their fireplace.

And then sell the dump.

All those ceiling can lights, every room looks like an upsidedown airport runway.

They did save historic details, but polished and buffed and scrubbed the patina of everything. It looks like a caviar bar in a Dubai airport.

Dark.

It is amazing how an owner can take a grand, beautiful, iconic residence like this one and transform it into what looks like a shiny, plasticy, tacky, new McMansion in a suburb somewhere in Indiana or maybe New Jersey. Everything looks fake - the moldings appear to be poorly-painted plastic from the local Home Depot applied with Elmer's glue, the marble and parquetry floors like stick-on vinyl tile squares, the gilding like a housewife's crafting project making use of a can of metallic spray paint. I totally agree with the above poster about the horrifying airport runway lights installed ALL OVER the fucking ceilings. I'm sure that someone can rescue this - but what a shame. Hire a very talented interior designer immediately (anyone who can afford this blasphemy will I have zero doubt).

SLUT.

One of my favourite UES houses is on same street; 11-13 East 62nd...

History of 8 East 62nd street.....

History of 8 East 62nd street.....

Late Joan Rivers lived just down the block in penthouse (condo) apartment of 1 East 62nd street, the John R. Drexel house.

An entertaining, Data Lounge worthy text, R21:

[quote]Built between 1879 and 1880, it was one of a row of eight matching [brownstone] homes constructed by [bold]architect-developers Breen & Nason[/bold]. During the 1890s it was home to the William H. Falconer family and [bold]Mrs. Falconer routinely announced her “at homes” through the newspaper society pages.[/bold]

[quote]When real estate operator Thomas J. McLaughlin purchased the Falconer residence, it was the end of the line for the old brownstone. McLaughlin commissioned John H. Duncan to design a replacement mansion on the site. Duncan, who had recently been busy designing fine homes for millionaires like Philip Lehman and Elias Asiel, produced a five-story limestone mansion in the popular Beaux Arts style.

[quote]Construction began in 1902 and was completed the following year. [Duncan's work includes Grant's Tomb in Riverside Park, and Soldiers' and the Sailors' Memorial Arch in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza.]

[quote][bold]Although The New York Times said the house “compares favorably with any of the fine residences built speculatively east of Central Park,” it was not sold until the following year.[/bold] On August 11, 1904 the newspaper said “The price is not announced, although it is known that the house has been held at $270,000.” That would translate to just under $7 million today.

r7 that's what bothers you? not the huge pink blow up bunny in the living room in picture no. 6?

It's vulgar and ugly.

R23

You left out:

"In 1992 architect Emilio Ambasz paid $3.2 million for the mansion which he used as his home and office, along with the rental-producing apartments. Then in May 2007 real estate investor Keith Rubenstein agreed to pay $35 million for No. 8 East 62nd Street. According to brokers, he beat out entertainer Madonna, who offered 25 percent less."

When are people going to wake up and smell the coffee? It isn't 2000's any more, and people aren't interested by and large in paying huge sums for these piles (townhouses/mansions).

Meanwhile $100 million USD for a penthouse at 220 Central Park South, that is what people are buying. This even in a covid-19 panic pandemic that has people saying NYC is "over" and "dead".

R27/R18: Of course tastes change and one year townhouses are in strong demand and another year the demand is weak, but people still buy townhouses.

The market for $100M new construction condos is as specific as that for townhouses, and those properties will not be so hot when a future downturn comes along to point out how very 2018-2019 their design and finishes are, as well as the shortcomings of their addresses.

The news of townhouses not selling is heavily skewed by some wrecked/overly renovated historic houses that lost all their character to people who took them all apart then put them back together again with all new parts from different places, a shiny new Frankenstein's monster of new bits and pieces and trendy design that's already faded. The sellers have egos bigger than their houses and don't mind having them on the market for years waiting for the perfect buyer; they vastly overestimated the value they put into a property by making it too.much to their taste (and no one else's.) Less fucked up properties retaining more of their original character or with quieter restorations and more realistic prices do okay. Not everyone wants a $60M condo with 9' ceilings and a row of columns just where the view to be, and bathrooms and kitchen from se HGTV suburban dream home.

R24, I missed the pink bunny the first time through. No, I don’t know how that was possible.

R30 I didnt, just assumed it would leave in a Uhaul along with the rest of the current owners crap when they go.

Yeah those can lights are pretty heinous. Fair bit of work to get rid of them all and patch the holes, but completely doable. I'd leave them in the kitchen, they make sense there.

R15 I agree it does look like a "caviar bar at Dubai airport" right now. But its mostly the furniture and can lights that give that impression, remove that and fill it with beautiful old antiques and add some colour and Victorian patterned wallpaper and drapes and it would look completely different.... and better

R27- No one wants to live in a brothel.

No one is buying real estate in NYC. Sales have dropped almost 50%.

I use to live on East 62nd St, but my one bedroom apartment was only $750.00 a month!

R34

Yes, dear but world has moved on since 1960's......

More to the point exactly where on East 62nd? Fifth to Lexington or even Third would be one thing; points drop east of Second.....

R33

Says you; another condo just closed at 220 Central Park West.....

I can't believe the rabbit wasn't brought up until R24.

Says the statistics R36, you dumb cunt. Sales have dropped nearly by half. The biggest drop in history. No one is buying.

It’s not for the olds - -

That place reeks Russian oligarch money. Tasteless and over the top

Funeral home curtains.

The old perv Orhan Sadik-Khan died in 2007, why post about this now?

The townhouse is as tacky as he was. His wife's name was Karen! Hilarious.

I assumed the pink bunny and the Disney sofa were modern art pieces.

It looks like the artists are the Campana Bothers. Here is another one of their pieces.