Yue-Sai Kan, Chinese-American media star, recently sold her five-story Georgian townhouse at 8 Sutton Place for $22.25 million, according to public records. The 41-foot-wide property comprises two combined townhouses.
According to the Stribling & Associates listing for 8 Sutton Place, all 23 rooms in the property have views of the East River, and it boasts two elevators, a garage and a private garden. Barbara Evans-Butler, the broker who was handling the sale of 8 Sutton Place, said she could not discuss the particulars of the deal because of a non-disclosure agreement. The identity of the townhouse's buyer remains a mystery.
Kan, who was born in China and moved to New York in the early '70s, is best known as the host of popular Chinese television shows like "One World" and as the creator of Yue-Sai Kan Cosmetics. She purchased the mansion between East 57th and 58th streets in August 2005. She lived in a townhouse next door, at 6 Sutton Place, for many years prior to the purchase of 8 Sutton. (Source: em>The Real Deal, Jul 9, 2007).