British-born Tamara Mellon, co-founder of Jimmy Choo, was a New York society staple.
But following a bankruptcy related to an eponymous shoe brand she founded in 2013, Mellon moved to Los Angeles and moved in with her partner, Michael Ovitz, a founder of talent and entertainment agency CAA.
Incredibly, while Mellon has 3,000 pairs of shoes that she designed herself in her closet, Ovitz won’t let her wear any of them inside their home, according to a fawning article in the New York Times earlier this month.
Although Mellon enjoys Los Angeles — and reportedly relocated her team there — she misses New York, friends say, and has been back to do some house hunting of her own, even as two properties she owns are on the market.
She picked up a Greenwich Lane condo for $18.35 million in 2016, which sources say she is trying to offload quietly.
Meanwhile, her 7,140-square-foot Upper East Side penthouse at 3 E. 95th St. is back on the market for $25 million.
It asked $34 million in 2014, when it first listed.
Mellon seems ready to move on: She recently checked out a $19.99 million townhouse in Chelsea that makes a splash with an indoor pool. The 26-foot-wide home at 253 W. 18th St. features up to seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms and two half bathrooms over seven stories. There’s a high-speed elevator, wide-plank white oak floors and four outdoor spaces.
The garden level boasts an eat-in chef’s kitchen, while the second floor comes with floor-to-ceiling windows and a living room with a gas fireplace.
The master suite, which takes the entire third floor, includes a bedroom area with another gas fireplace, a dressing room, a spa bathroom and a balcony, while the fourth and fifth floors have additional bedrooms. Topping it all off: a roof deck with lots of room to grill and lounge. The listing brokers are Douglas Bellitto and Rachel Glazer of Brown Harris Stevens.
3 E. 95 St., the 7,140-square-foot penthouse, is back on the market for $25 million.
She had originally listed the five bedroom, four and a half bathroom home for $34 million in 2014.
In addition she is quietly trying to offload her $18 million unit at the Greenwich Lane.