Rush Limbaugh's Gaudy Fifth Avenue Penthouse Is Now For Sale

[onehandle]

It looks like Rush Limbaugh is moving ahead with his threat to leave New York City. He's (finally!) put his tacky Fifth Avenue apartment up for sale. The cost of ridding NYC of Rush once and for all? $13.95 million.

Limbaugh promised that he'd sell his Manhattan apartment last March after the Paterson administration proposed raising taxes on New York residents who make more than $500,000 a year. (That wasn't the first time he'd made the threat. On the eve of the 2008 presidential election, Limbaugh said he was "seriously considering selling it," since "it may now become stupid to own any property there.")

http://gawker.com/5482793/rush-limbaughs-gaudy-fifth-avenue-penthouse-is-now-for-sale/gallery/?skyline=true&s=i

A 'man of the people' and his fop-house.

[NYC_SKP]

1. There's nothing in this Universe that can rid the place of his ass stink. Nothing.

The only people that could possibly want to live there would be Rush fans who live for the smell.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. My exact thought was..Omigawd..how the hell will they EVER be able to adequately fumigate the place?

:rofl:

[calimary]

10. My exact thought was ... I bet he can't fit in that bathtub!

:evilgrin:

[BrklynLiberal]

ROTFLMAO!!! Bet you are right..that is why there is a stall shower as well.

:thumbsup: :hi:

[NYC_SKP]

38. My deepest sympathy to ALL the bathroom fixtures in that condo, particularly the "commodes".

If there's a hell for toilet bowls, those toilet bowls are living in it.

[Raschel]

45. He probably takes the freight elevator.

[my2sense]

39. Mine too! n/t

[Deep13]

16. What if the whole place was flooded and filled with liquid Lysol...

...for say six months? Then to get rid of the chemical smell, it would be scrubbed with sherry and left to air out? Of course the booze smell might attract Limbaugh back to the apartment.

[NYC_SKP]

26. The only way you could effectively mask the smell, and only mask it, is with "Essence of Hannity".

I don't see that being much of an improvement.

[KingFlorez]

36. I know, looking at the picture I could just smell the funk right through the screen

I would not want to live anywhere he had lived.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. "Gaudy" would be considered tasteful compared to the look of that place.

If someone does buy it..they would have to tear it down to the bricks in the walls to get it to look decent again.

[Barack_America]

6. I think I prefer the Carville 'Pepto Bismol' house.

Seriously.

Though Limbaugh's library full of books that have obviously never been opened is quite classy.

[BrklynLiberal]

33. That is probably a trompe l'oeil...not real books.

http://www.trompe-l-oeil-art.com/trompe.html

http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Trompe-l-Oeil-of-a-Bookcase-Posters_i382597_.htm

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/hot-or-not/hot-or-not-trompe-loeil-bookshelf-storage-089843

http://theblogonthebookshelf.blogspot.com/2009/01/trompe-loeil.html

[FarCenter]

4. Business opportunity for the right madam

[Warpy]

44. Not enough bedrooms

but yeah, the decor is just about right for the Wall Street new money clientele.

[DemoTex]

5. The maid's room in the floorplan .. that's the Oxycontin maid, right?

[npk]

7. No pictures of the dungeon where he entertained young boys. n/t

[Deep13]

8. I'd buy it and have a super, colossal DU meet-up there.

I'd call it Chateau Hill after Joe Hill even though it's an apartment.

Nice office. I see he had a subscription to that Franklin leather-bound book service. And they threw out all those old pizza boxes, chicken buckets and pill bottles. For someone who professes to hate socialist Europe, he sure likes living like a French aristocrat. I'd have it redone in the federal style.

[marmar]

9. Uggh. It needs to thoroughly scrubbed and disinfected.

nt

[bullwinkle428]

11. All those extra bedrooms are for the servants, I presume?

[calimary]

15. Evidently he's banished the maid completely outside the unit.

Where's the maid's room? Across the hall? Then again, I wouldn't want to share that air.

And the bathroom is curiously mundane, compared to the rest of the place. Must not have been where he spent the most of his interior decorating money.

[Grand Taurean]

12. To say that The Reichstag Hudson is "gaudy" is quite the understatement.

[johnnie]

13. Wow, what a fucking cheesy palace

I bet he almost put Fingerhut out of business buying all that crap.

[flvegan]

14. That he has $14 million plus is offensive.

Stupid ass conservative douchebag sheeple.

[Cleita]

17. It's not as gaudy as Donald Trump's but they seem to have shared the

same interior decorator.

[npk]

18. Ah traditional republican values

Avoid paying taxes at all costs, and then bitch about paying taxes whenever you can. Funny how people like Rush talk a big game about how they pay all the taxes, when they are always looking for an excuse not to pay.

[Lyric]

19. The blue bedroom is the only room even halfway nice,

except for that terrible mural on the wall. It looks like the cheap, cheesy tourist t-shirts and license plates that you can get your name airbrushed onto for five bucks while visiting Myrtle Beach. Ugh.

Edit: upon a second look, the palm-tree posts on the bed and the chandelier that doesn't match the room at ALL would also have to go.

[jmowreader]

20. It does have a certain charm to it

Which is, of course, a very nice, genteel way of saying it looks like the Presidential Suite in a Las Vegas casino.

So if you don't mind the idea of living atop Caesar's Palace for the rest of your life, you don't mind paying $14 million for the privilege and you don't mind knowing the money's going to Rush Limbaugh, it might be a good investment.

[TCJ70]

21. And people think that guy speaks for them

He has nothing in common with anybody.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

22. I do like the study.

[melm00se]

76. i was going to say that too

that has a real classic look to it ('cept I was going to call it the library)

[DemoTex]

23. Notice the TV in the master bath .. then picture this (in your mind):

Ru$hbo's fat ass in the bath tub (maybe doing a sitz soak for an ass boil?) with a big cigar, a bottle of Dom, some baby oil, and "The Sarah Palin Story" on the TeeVee.

BTW: In that mental picture, those bubbles in the bath aren't from a bubble bath solution. Nosiree. That's methane.

[corpseratemedia]

24. the faux rococo chandeliers...

:puke:

[izquierdista]

25. Imagine the size of the bidet

[beyurslf]

27. What's with those ugly murals all over the place? Even the ceiling?

Really? The ceiling? Tacky. And that tv in the bathroom was some little 1994 tv.

[Orsino]

28. He was worried about appearing elitist, obviously. n/t

[LeftyMom]

29. The decor looks like the misshapen inbred baby of a casino and a whorehouse.

But it looks like a whole lot of money went into making the place look that tacky. I guess that goes to show that you can't buy good taste.

[gateley]

30. I'm almost embarrassed for him -- anybody who tries to buy 'class' in this

ostentatious way is almost to be pitied. I said 'almost'.

[drdtroit]

31. Looks like it was decorated by a funeral director.

[Maru Kitteh]

71. And it looks like that funeral director was a whorehouse enthusiast.

[bridgit]

32. Good Grief!! Well, there it is I guess: Limbaugh thinks he's Cardinal Flipping Richelieu

[Piwi2009]

34. Huge bathroom cabinet for all the meds

Who knew that hawg-calling on the radio all day long could net you such booty? Hell any hump-backed, green-toothed redneck around my state could say the same exact things for free. I thought rightwad station owners were tight with a dollar.

[KingFlorez]

35. How could anyone think that actually looks good?

I guess we have to consider who we are talking about.

[gateley]

37. At least the trompe l'oeil over the bed is preferable to a mirror! nt

[Piwi2009]

40. "leave NYC " I bet he's moving to OKLAHOMA, right?

Oklahoma IS what all the rightwads say they want - a gawd-fearin-, anti-gay, anti-Obama state. Dunno why they rank so low in population, every rightwad should want to live there. And they were #1 in divorce in the nation for many years, so he'd feel right at home!

[Maru Kitteh]

72. He moved to Florida where it's much easier to get his drugs.

The "pain relief" industry is HUGE in FL.

[LiberalFighter]

41. It sure looks warm and cozy.

:sarcasm:

Better check all of the rooms for any dead bodies.

[Raschel]

42. The books in the study look brand new!

[Warpy]

43. Faux Versailles only works with much higher ceilings

and all that woodwork on the ceiling makes the place look oppressive, at best. He obviously just hired some design firm to come in and do the whole thing, down to the sets of leather bound classics (yeah, they're real but never read) in his library. The only books he ever opens are the paper bound jobs on the bottom shelf.

Anybody who buys the place is probably going to gut it and start over, just to get the cigar reek out of it. The amount of fabric in that place would hold it forever.

(it's a good thing I'm poor, that kind of overdone monstrosity is SO not me.)

[Fuzz]

46. That third pic, omg, wtf?

[MrMickeysMom]

47. Great... I like the beached whale bedroom theme...

Of course, one can never have enough fresco's painted in powder blue, teal and beige.

Sort of like his audience... powder blue, teal and beige...

[Raven]

48. Did he use fingerpaints? His taste is all in his mouth...as my mother used to say.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

49. How drab!!! Way too much brown, yellow and beige!!! YUCKO!!!

I hate rooms decorated in beige and brown. So unimaginative.

[KonaKane]

50. The Winter Palace, American style.

Rush Romanov.

[upi402]

51. Note the 'Magic Fingers' box accentuated with mother of pearl inlaid Koa wood.

yewwww:puke: ass boil

[Tabasco_Dave]

52. Hey Rush! Liberace called, he wants his apartment back.

:puke:

[onehandle]

57. That was my first thought. nt

[Ex Lurker]

53. neauveau riche tackiness n/t

[hobbit709]

54. That makes gaudy look sophisticated.

It would take a HazMat cleanup to make it habitable.

[olegramps]

55. This would make an excellent whore house. I expect some madame to snap it up.

[Tabasco_Dave]

56. OMG! some interior decorator just pulled a con on Rush.

My uncle was a interior decorator and he would pull stuff like this all the time on people he didn't like. Rush is too unsophisticated to have good taste so the decorator convinced him that you need to have lots of murals on the celling. You can't have too many chandeliers, you should have a mural of a palm tree on a beach, since you have a house in Palm Beach ect. The decorator made his apartment as tacky as possible and Rush loved it. I'm sure the old money republicans who have good taste had a good laugh at his pad. :rofl:

[wordpix]

58. Louis X!V returns in the DrugRush body, blech

[Donnachaidh]

59. what out of work Hollywood set director pulled together this CHEESE?

O.M.G -- !!!!

[Canuckistanian]

60. Early Roccoco Firesale

Like the kind of place Steve Martin would live in, in the movie "The Jerk".

[DefenseLawyer]

66. Okay, the ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game and these matches

but that's all I need!

[LynneSin]

61. Geez, it would cost at least $5million to gut this place and redo it

This is just the tackiest looking place I've ever seen.

[onehandle]

63. I would start by knocking out half the walls.

Terrible layout.

[LynneSin]

77. I'd start by dumping all that gaudy bric-a-brac, molding, chandeliers etc. etc

This is not the Versailles. Last time I checked, folks that lived there got their heads chopped off.

[bunny planet]

62. Paying taxes ...

that's for 'the little people'

[msanthrope]

64. I wouldn't want to run a blacklight on that place.....n/t

[lpbk2713]

65. Interesting mural he has on the bedroom wall.

Is that to make the little Dominican Republic boys feel right at home when they come over for a visit?

[DefenseLawyer]

67. Yup, he's a dandy.

He's a real fancy boy!

[RedCloud]

68. That pervert takes a bath with his window open. Yuck!

[DefenseLawyer]

69. Note the telephone by the john

Have a bran muffin, Rush.

[ubergeek]

70. Murals?

Other than the Murals ...It's a little over the top gaudy...but, I've seen worse...especially around Nashville!!! (the rich folks in Brentwood TN are really into this type of decorating) I like the floor plan, Master bedroom and Dining area.

[Dappleganger]

73. The bullshit business sure does pay well.

[Kingofalldems]

74. He made it so his women can watch him take a shower--naked

What a thrill for them.

[jdadd]

75. He probably uses the Bidet for a drinking fountain.....

Said "it could have been a little higher":rofl:

[Monk06]

78. Scrape off all that faux Rocco nick nackery and you have a $2 Million apartment.

I used to work for a company that did an interior
in that hodge podge of 18th century decor.

The client was and Asian billionaire who manufactured
souvenir Elvis plates.

No shit true story.