Uma Thurman has bought the iconic, $10 million Manhattan apartment owned by best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford and her filmmaker husband, Robert, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
“Kill Bill” star Thurman is the mystery buyer of the Bradfords’ sprawling 13-room East Side apartment at River House, where the couple has lived for 18 years.
We are told Thurman, 43, passed the rigorous co-op board approval process — which River House is attempting to relax to attract more buyers — and was informed on Monday that she’s being welcomed into the art deco address on 52nd Street.
Barbara exclusively confirmed Thurman’s purchase to us, adding, “Both Bob and I are thrilled that the sale of our apartment to Uma Thurman has been confirmed by the board. She and her three children will be a wonderful addition to the building.”
Barbara, an OBE recipient who has written 29 books, including the classic “A Woman of Substance,” says she and her husband are looking to downsize. We’re told the Bradfords are viewing apartments on Park Avenue.
In previous years, movie stars and the upper echelon of New York society clamored for entry into River House, a so-called “grand dame of Manhattan real estate.” It was so elite that the co-op board famously refused actresses and socialites including Diane Keaton and Gloria Vanderbilt.
It was said that the neon Pepsi sign visible to River House residents across the East River was commissioned by screen legend Joan Crawford, who was married to Pepsi’s chief executive, in a fit of pique after the co-op board vetoed her application.
Thurman, who has three children, Rosalind, one, Maya Ray, 14, and 10-year-old son Levon, sold her seven-bedroom Greenwich Village townhouse for $12 million last year. She will next appear in the Lars von Trier sex drama “Nymphomaniac,” out in December.
Barbara Taylor Bradford giving a tour of her 13-room apartment: