Winning bid of $5.63 million snags Starr condo

Bidding was casual at the auction of the luxury Upper East Side condo that Ponzi schemer Kenneth Starr had purchased in 2010.

A bidder who declined to give me his name won imprisoned fraudster Kenneth Starr’s condo at auction today for a $5.63 million bargain price.

He was among 17 registered bidders for the apartment in the doorman building called the Lux, at 433 E. 74th St.

The current owner is the Internal Revenue Service, to which Starr relinquished the property prior to his sentencing.

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Imprisoned fraudster’s condo heads to auction

Kenneth Starr purchased a lavish new triplex at the bottom of this building for $7.6 million in 2010.

When Kenneth Starr pleaded guilty last March to stealing more than $33 million from his celebrity clients, he already had turned over to the United States government the luxurious condo that he had purchased for $7.6 million on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

With five bedrooms, five and a half baths, 1,543-sf rear terrace that has an outdoor kitchen, an indoor lap pool and a 340-sf second terrace upstairs, the 6,550-sf triplex goes to auction Continue reading