Hugh Jackman's House

Hugh Jackman is the Australian actor who played Wolverine in the X-Men films from 2000 and won a Tony for The Boy From Oz. He was starring in The Music Man on Broadway the year this deal closed.

The tower was finished around 2010 to a design by Pritzker winner Jean Nouvel. The Center for Architecture wrote that he took the Hudson as his cue, wanting the facade to throw back the river’s changing reflections and colors.

Its signature wall holds about 1,600 windows in 32 sizes, set at varying angles. The glass came preinstalled in 37-foot panels built in China, their length capped by what fit in a shipping container.

City deed records date the purchase to July 29, 2022, with a company rather than a person named as buyer. Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness were leaving a West Village triplex they had put on the market that June.

Cottages & Gardens named the sellers as Daniel Fischel, a former dean of the University of Chicago Law School, and Sylvia Neil, an associate dean there. They had first offered the penthouse in October 2021.

A deed dated May 25, 2025, moved the unit to a new LLC the same week the couple’s divorce was filed. The Nightly and InDaily read it as Furness buying Jackman out, though the deed names no person.

Before the 2005 rezoning, the New York Real Estate Journal recalled, this part of West Chelsea was low-rise warehouses where homes were not allowed. The galleries stayed, and some of the big names bought land nearby.