Murdered multimillionaire investor Theodore Ammon struck a deal to sell his posh Fifth Avenue apartment just days before he was found beaten to death, The Post has learned.
Ammon, who also served as chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center, had originally agreed to sell the co-op at 1125 Fifth Ave. for $9.85 million – but that deal fell through after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, real-estate sources said.
The 52-year-old founder and chairman of Chancery Lane Capital LLC, then came to an agreement with a second buyer for about $8.5 million – but was found murdered in his East Hampton mansion.
Sources said the original buyer was a hot-shot investment banker. The second would still have to get approval from the building’s high-profile co-op board, which includes actors Kevin Kline, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bette Midler.
Ammon, former general partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., was going through a bitter divorce with his wife of 10 years, Generosa – and was living in a rented townhouse on 94th Street off Fifth Avenue.
The couple has adopted 11-year-old twins.
Ammon’s real-estate broker, Jed Garfield, did not return calls for comment.
Meanwhile, sources in East Hampton said Generosa had unofficially put the couple’s summer home on the market for an undisclosed figure. When Ammon learned of the listing, he immediately pulled it off the market. Generosa could not be reached for comment yesterday.