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FORMER Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the mystery buyer of a $27.5 million condo in Noho, Page Six has exclusively learned.
The sprawling four-bedroom Bond Street duplex boasts nearly 6,400 square feet of indoor space in addition to private terraces spanning almost 2,500 square feet — including one 1,900-square-foot stone-and-wood roof deck with a sweeping 360-degree view of the skyline and a massive hot tub.
Elsewhere, a wall of windows opens onto another 550-square-foot terrace. The main bedroom suite has its own fireplace, as well as a custom-fitted dressing room and a “spa bathroom” with a soaking tub.
There is also a spacious private office with another fireplace, plus a guest suite. The kitchen is complete with a built-in espresso machine, a walk-in pantry and a 20-foot-long wood breakfast counter.
Sources said Schmidt has purchased the four-bedroom pad as an investment property. According to the listing, it’s still in contract.
The penthouse was apparently previously owned by Goldman Sachs vet Michael D. Daffey — who recently bought late creep Jeffrey Epstein’s old mansion for $51 million. Will Smith also lived in the Bond Street building.
Schmidt — worth about $20 billion — is on a bit of a bicoastal buying spree. He reportedly purchased a historic LA manor this year for $61.5 million from the estate of late hotel heir William Barron Hilton.
Last year, he acquired an estate in Montecito, Calif., for $30.8 million that was once the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
The tech tycoon also reportedly owned another $22 million Holmby Hills home — that once belonged to the widow of Hollywood actor Gregory Peck — plus another $20 million Montecito compound that he purchased from talk show host (and renowned luxury real estate flipper) Ellen DeGeneres in 2007.
Schmidt’s other Manhattan properties have included a $15 million Flatiron penthouse, which was featured in Oliver Stone’s 2010 “Wall Street” sequel, “Money Never Sleeps.”