Livvy Dunne tried to buy Babe Ruth's apartment. The building's co-op board said no
Dunne had a contract in place to buy a $1.6-million apartment that was once owned by baseball great Babe Ruth on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
But it ended up not being a Dunne deal.
The recent Louisiana State graduate known to her fans as 'Livvy' won't be moving into the former digs of the player known to fans as 'the Bambino,' because the building's co-op board rejected her application.
In a video posted to TikTok on Tuesday, Dunne told her 8 million followers that she is 'so upset' after coming so close to residing in the same seventh-floor apartment where the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox legend is said to have lived from 1929 to 1940.
'It was Babe Ruth's apartment,' said Dunne, who grew up less than an hour away in Hillside, N.J. 'So naturally, like, I'm telling everybody. I'm excited. I was gonna buy it and I was gonna pay with cash, like I wanted this apartment bad.'
The 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model said her real estate agent 'was so confident' the deal would go through that she brought boyfriend Paul Skenes, the Pittsburgh Pirates' All-Star pitcher and 2024 National League rookie of the year, to see the place.
'I got an interior designer because I didn't want to bring my college furniture to Babe Ruth's apartment — that would be like, criminal,' Dunne said. 'Then the week that I'm supposed to get my keys to my brand new apartment, I get a call. The co-op board denied me.'
The listing agent confirmed to The Times that Dunne had made an offer on the property that was accepted by the seller and, as the final step in the process, turned in an application for the purchase for the co-op board's approval. The board rejected that application about three weeks ago, the agent said.
No explanation was given for the rejection, although Dunne has her theories.
'For all I know, they could have been Alabama fans and I went to LSU,' she joked. 'I have no clue. Maybe they didn't want a public figure living there. But I was literally supposed to get the keys, and that week they denied me.'
She added: 'Long story short, don't try to live in a co-op. You might get denied and you won't get Babe Ruth's apartment.'
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