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HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERHarvey
Weinstein began selling off per-
sonal real estate about six months
before the publication of two arti-
cles that enumerated a flood of
sexual-misconduct allegations
against him, according to a Wall
Street Journal analysis of property
records and people familiar with
the transactions.
The purge resulted in the sale of
six homes by Mr. Weinstein be-
tween October 2017 and April 2018
for an estimated total of $55.9 mil-
lion. Another one of his homes is
now on the market. And in April
2019, he sold a commercial office
space he owned with his brother
and Weinstein Co. co-founder Rob-
ert. Robert Weinstein didn’t re-
spond to requests for comment.
BYCANDACETAYLOR
This home in Amagansett, N.Y.,
is one of seven properties that
Mr. Weinstein has sold since
October 2017.an overall four-seasons theme.
Throughout the home, murals by
Baroque artists Pier Dandini, Mat-
teo Bonechi and Niccolò Lapi have
been restored.
In its Golden Age, Florence was
at the center of a global cultural
awakening. Wealthy Florentines
poured money into literature and
the arts. One, Lorenzo de’ Medici,
fostered the development of mas-
ters such as Michelangelo and Botti-
celli. The Medicis and the Machia-
vellis, alongside other noble
families, lived in the hills around
the city.
The restored villa is listed by its
current owners, the Zamparini fam-
ily, for $60 million. The family is
perhaps best known for once own-
ing the Palermo soccer club. Maur-
Please turn to page M4Under the
Tuscan Sun
An opulent, 40-room mansion
outside of Florence with ties to the
Machiavelli family goes on the
market for $60 millionNestled in the Tuscan hills at the
end of a road lined with cypress
trees sits Villa Poggio Torselli, a Re-
naissance-era mansion surrounded
by vineyards and expansive English-
style gardens.
The home, once owned by the
Machiavelli family, dates to the
Golden Age of Florence and pro-
vides a view into the centuries of
opulence that followed a series of
wealthy owners. Its 40 rooms are
filled with antique chandeliers and
gilded furniture, intricate Italianate
moldings, soaring decorative ceil-
ings, tapestries and artwork. The
statues on the exterior facade of the
three-story home and the murals in
the interior depict spring, summer,
autumn and winter in keeping withBYKATHERINECLARKETHE SCANDAL
AND THE SELLOFF
JAKE RAJSHarvey Weinstein started selling his personal
real-estate portfolio about six months before his downfall—and wound
up making a big profit. Mr. Weinstein’s spokesman says the sales were
related to his divorce and legal costsLeslie Cohen closed on her pur-
chase of one of Mr. Weinstein’s
Connecticut homes just three days
before the publication of a New
York Times article detailing his al-
leged sexual miscon-
duct. She said that
when she saw the ar-
ticle, she was upset
and felt “deceived”
that no one involved
in the transaction
warned her what was about to hap-
pen. Agents involved in the deal
said they didn’t know about the ar-
ticle.
Mr. Weinstein is scheduled to go
on criminal trial in New York on
Sept. 9. Prosecutors have accused
him of raping a woman at a Man-
hattan hotel in 2013 and forcibly
performing oral sex on another
woman in 2006. Mr. Weinstein has
pleaded not guilty to the criminal
charges and has denied all accusa-
tions of nonconsensual sex. His
lawyers are negotiating an approx-
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PROPERTIES
SOLDLapimuralFourseasonsroomInthegardenThe centuries-old, 15-bedroom villa rests on 100 acres that include a Chianti-producing vineyard. The home was renovated after a 1999 purchase by theZamparini family.
FRANCESCO LASTRUCCI FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (7); SHAYAN ASGHARNIA FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (LONGORIA)$60Million
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