Wendy Williams's Manhattan Apartment: Rented in 2019, Bought in 2021, Sold in 2024

In September 2019, Velvet Ropes reported that Wendy Williams was renting a two-floor apartment partway up a new tower in Manhattan's Financial District, five months after she filed for divorce. Page Six put the rent at $15,000 a month, and Hollywood Life ran the story crediting both. The rental turned out to be the first chapter. New York City's deed records show she bought the same apartment in June 2021, and that it was sold out of her name in the spring of 2024. She no longer owns it.

That makes nearly five years there, first as a tenant and then as the owner.

The address stays behind the ropes. The map pin, the record and the sale are on Wendy Williams's former Manhattan home profile.

Why she left New Jersey

For most of her daytime talk show's run, Williams went home at night to Livingston, New Jersey, to the house she and her husband, Kevin Hunter, bought in 2009. She filed for divorce in Essex County Superior Court on April 9, 2019, NBC News reported. She did not wait for the decree. Page Six reported on August 1, 2019, that the Livingston house was for sale and that she had already moved into the city.

Rented in 2019, bought in 2021

ACRIS, the city's online register of every deed recorded in New York City, shows two for this apartment. The first is dated June 9, 2021. It moved the unit from the building's sponsor, which is New York's term for the developer that holds a condominium's unsold apartments, to Williams under her married name, Hunter. The city did not record it until July 26. That gap would explain why People dated the purchase to June and TheGrio to July: one date is the day the deed was signed, the other the day it was filed.

No deed for the apartment comes before hers. The unit stayed with the developer until June 2021. The apartment Williams rented in 2019 still belonged to the company that built the tower, and on the record she was its first owner.

The 2024 sale

The second deed is dated April 18, 2024, and the city recorded it on May 10. The seller named on it is a court-appointed temporary guardian acting for Williams, and the price on it is lower than the one on her 2021 deed. People and TheGrio both reported the sale that month, and both called it a loss.

The buyers on that deed are private people, and we do not name them.

The Livingston house she left

The house she left behind went up in 1999, according to New Jersey's statewide parcel data. Page Six placed it in Bel Air, a gated community in Livingston, and Livingston Patch has reported that Bel Air was built on the estate of Congressman Robert Kean, where his son, the future governor Thomas Kean, grew up.

Aleks Drogobetski, who edits this site, watched the show's after-show segments filmed in the room Williams called her mom cave, and he remembers it as a dark, black room. By his account, those black walls were painted over before the house sold.

The state's parcel data dates the deed that took the house out of the couple's names to July 2020, at a price several hundred thousand dollars under what Page Six reported they paid in 2009. The agent who sold it told Today that Williams came back after the closing to wish the buyers well. That house has its own page: Wendy Williams's former Livingston home profile.

More Manhattan front doors

Other Manhattan homes on Velvet Ropes include Erin Burnett's Upper West Side rental and Robert De Niro's apartments. How we decide what to publish about a private home is set out in celebrity addresses.