SOFA IS SO ‘GONE’
Deal closes on Harvey’s #MeToo office den
Harvey Weinstein’s abandoned Tribeca office loft has finally found a buyer — but his notorious casting couchis not part of the deal.
“The couch is gone — disposed of,” said one source who is familiar with what’s left in the unit.
The third-floor, 6,000square-foot space at 375 Greenwich St. — formerly home to the casting couch at the forefront of #MeToo claims — is in contract to be sold to real estate developer Cape Advisors, The Post has learned.
The New York City developer behind the Mondrian Hotel has agreed to pay more than $6 million — in cash — for the loft-style space, which also includes a private bathroomwithashower.
Michael Rudder of Rudder Property Group repped the buyer. David Schechtman of Meridian Investment Sales andAlanMillerofAldoAdvisors — who is now with Besen & Associates — marketed the unit.
Theoffice, whichsits above Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Grill restaurant, was originally listed for $10 million.
The space has been de- scribed by visitors as outdated with small offices, shabby carpet and Formica counters, suggesting the new ownerswillwanttogut-renovate it.
Inthemeantime, theywon’t have to worry about two couchesleft there after Weinstein abandonedthebuilding. The sofas are featured in accounts by women who claim they were sexually assaulted by the producer of such hit films as “Shakespeare in Love” and “Gangs of New York.”
The first couch — a creamcolored leather sofa located behind a coffee table just steps from Weinstein’s old desk— has beendescribed as “the original casting couch.”
ModelAmbraBattilanaGutierrez told cops that she was sitting on just such a couch when the producer lunged at her and began pawing at her breasts in March2015.
Asecond, gray fabric couch hidden away in an office with a treadmill matches a Weinstein Company set-up described by Lucia Evans when she told The New Yorker magazine that the producer forced hertoperformoralsex on him in a room with exercise equipment.
It could not beimmediately determined whether the couches had been sent to the trash heap — or left on a street curb for someone to collect.
The Greenwich Street deal is expected to close by the endof March, sources said.
The disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey and his brother, Bob Weinstein, bought the entire third floor of the building in 1989 for $1.1 million. Bob and most of the staffers later relocated to 99 HudsonSt.
Harvey Weinstein has denied any claims of “non-consensual sex.”