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Jessica Chastain buys classic Manhattan co-op for $5.1M

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Jessica Chastain’s search for a Manhattan home has ended in the perfect purchase, a historic apartment across the street from Carnegie Hall once owned by legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.

The Juilliard-trained, Oscar-nominated actress has spent over a year searching, but she’s settled on a $5.1 million pad at the famed Osborne Apartments on West 57th Street.

We’re told the co-op unit appealed to “A Most Violent Year” star Chastain — who bought it under a private trust with her Italian fashion-executive boyfriend, Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo — partly because it’s steeped in musical-theater history.

The four-bedroom, 3 ½-bath residence was home to Bernstein for more than a decade, and it is claimed he wrote the songs for “West Side Story” with Stephen Sondheim while living there. The show opened on Broadway in 1957.

Bernstein, the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, lived in the apartment until 1974, when he sold it to cabaret star Bobby Short. The current seller is Adam Guettel, the Tony-winning composer of “The Light in the Piazza,” grandson of Richard Rodgers and son of composer Mary Rodgers Guettel, who was chairman of Juilliard while Chastain was a student.

The century-old, landmarked Osborne has been home to artists including pianist Van Cliburn, actresses Lynn Redgrave and Sylvia Miles, photographer Peter Beard and novelist Ira Levin, for whom the Osborne’s hallways reportedly inspired the setting of “Rosemary’s Baby.”

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The 3,000-square-foot apartment bought by Chastain and Preposulo, an executive at Moncler, boasts many original features, including tiger-oak floors, stained-glass parlor windows and hand-carved mahogany doors. It also has 14-foot ceilings, five ornate fireplaces and an original Lalique glass pane on the library door.

The apartment was bought in the name of the Tesoro Trust, which is registered to a Los Angeles address. A rep for Chastain didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment.