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

[Mira]

If you visited - this would be your guest bedroom.

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Your host would be sleeping here




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.")

Limbaugh was lying at the time, unfortunately. Months after making the "threat," he'd yet to actually put the Fifth Avenue apartment on the market.
But now he has! The 20th-floor penthouse at 1049 Fifth Avenue, which Limbaugh purchased in 1994 under the name RH Trust (Rush's middle name is Hudson) was officially listed two weeks ago for $13.95 million.

And although he's described the place on his radio show as "fashionable," it's doubtful that will be the word that comes to mind when you look at the photos below, which show off moldings of "hand painted gold leaf" and his "hand painted ceilings and walls" by "renowned artist" Richard Smith.



For more photographs of opulent tasteless living, a library with what looks like bookshelves with books purchased by the running yard, and for quite priceless commentary from people perusing this offer go to:

http://gawker.com/5482793/rush-limbaughs-gaudy-fifth-avenue-penthouse-is-now-for-sale/

Oh yes, there is also a floor plan.

Enjoy slumming.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Versailles as envisioned by Liberace.

Just goes to prove that money can't buy class.

[Bluebear]

2. Early Liberace, except Lee could carry it off.

[Warpy]

3. Read the comments, they're priceless

Someone last night called it the deformed offspring of a casino and whorehouse. Someone else pointed out that a designer took ole Pigboy for a ride.

With all the brass and ugly colors, the last thing this place could be called is fashionable.

80s anyone?

[chollybocker]

4. Can you say T-A-C-K-Y ?

Millions, for useless garbage. And the apartment is ugly, too.

[Mira]

5. Kitsch - squared.

Precisely though what I would have expected.

[TomCADem]

6. Dang, Being A Shill For Corporate America Pays Well...

It definitely pays well to try to kill President Obama's initiatives.

[pepperbear]

7. dupe

[pepperbear]

8. Scarface meets Louis XVI.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Comments of the Day: Everyone Wants to Live in Rush Limbaugh's House

If there's one thing that can be said about you liberal elites, it's that you all know good taste when you see it. And see it you did in snaps of beautiful delicate flower Rush Limbaugh's for-sale Manhattan Dreampalace.

Commenter Island of Misfit Toys finds something missing:

Where's the elevator filled with blood?

randomnessish knows who should really be living there:

Looks like the apartment for a rich Dolores Umbridge.

Old fellow Jacques-Paysan is an astute art critic:

"All the walls of my house are covered in 100% genuine paintings."

Derek Walsh makes another clever movie reference:

"Is this the superintendent? Yes, sir, I would like you to know that you have a whore living in 2R. Rossi. Janice Rossi."

An HONEST person named farfull123006 says you guys are such pretenders:

Please, people...I didn't know there were sooo many interior designers among us. You mean not one person gives a thumbs up on Rush's penthouse?

Be real...every one of us would blow the gasbag to live there....

AS. IS.

http://gawker.com/5484134/comments-of-the-day-everyone-wants-to-live-in-rush-limbaughs-house

[Mira]

10. " Trompe L' Oy-vey!! " is by far

my favorite comment by a person named Phlox.

The comments are hysterical, and a gift that keeps on giving if you check the replies to them.