NY Times angel investor buys Doris Duke 5th Avenue mansion

7/28, "Carlos Slim buys Manhattan townhouse on 5th avenue for $44 million," WSJ, J. Barbanel

• "Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is extending his reach in New York with purchase of a century-old Beaux Arts townhouse on Fifth Avenue for $44 million — one of the most expensive townhouse sales ever in the city.

Last month, Slim paid $140 million for an 11-story office building at 417 Fifth Avenue in Midtown. Slim is a major investor in the New York Times.

• Slim built a telecommunications empire in Mexico and now tops Forbes magazine’s list of the richest people in the world.

He owns the townhouse, located on Fifth Avenue at East 82nd Street across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through a limited liability company, a technique used by many wealthy buyers....

• The 1901 house, known as the Duke-Semans mansion, was owned by descendants of the original owner, tobacco magnate Benjamin N. Duke, until 2006."...photo flickr wallyg

Yankee Alex Rodriguez with NY Times investor Slim at a Telmex baseball event in Mexico, 11/30/08, ap

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