Bill Cosby wants $7M for a NYC townhouse now at the center of a foreclosure dispute
No jokes here: Bill Cosby’s stately Upper East Side brownstone has quietly been listed for just under $7 million.
The four-story residence, on East 61st Street, offers six bedrooms, an elevator and a formal dining room warmed by a fireplace — as well as the weight of a contentious foreclosure dispute, Crain’s reported.
The 5,000-square-foot home is the centerpiece of a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, where lender CitiMortgage alleges the Cosbys defaulted on a 2010 loan and now owe more than $4.2 million in outstanding principal, interest and fees.
In a February filing, Cosby’s legal team pushed back, arguing that the lender’s calculations were incorrect and the debt overstated.
Cosby, 87, and his wife, Camille, purchased the home in 1980, according to public records.
Though the purchase price remains unavailable, the property’s history is steeped in personal significance.
It was once home to their son, Ennis, a Columbia University alumnus who was murdered in Los Angeles in 1997.
Joseph Jacobson of the Biolsi Law Group, representing Cosby in the foreclosure case, declined to elaborate on the decision to list the East 61st Street property while litigation is ongoing.
The listing, quietly posted this week, emphasizes the property’s location on a landmarked block steps from Second Avenue. Showings are limited to private appointments.
This is not the only real estate headache facing the Cosbys.
Another foreclosure case is underway involving their principal Manhattan residence, a grand Beaux-Arts townhouse on East 71st Street.
There, First Foundation Bank alleges the couple defaulted on a $17.5 million loan tied to the 12,000-square-foot mansion, which they reportedly acquired in 1987 for about $6 million. That case, too, is active in state court.
While both properties remain in legal limbo, only the East 61st Street brownstone has officially hit the market.
The former television star, once celebrated as America’s dad, has seen his public image and finances battered over the last decade.
In 2018, he was convicted in Pennsylvania on sexual assault charges stemming from a 2004 incident and sentenced to up to a decade in prison. That conviction was overturned in 2021 by the state’s Supreme Court on due process grounds.
Despite the legal reversal, dozens of women have come forward with allegations spanning decades — claims that Cosby has consistently denied.
