Ego dies hard

Goodbye to all that

Bruce Willis has finally sold his Bedford home for $7.66 million. He paid $12 million for it in 2014 and had been asking $12.5, but the market for weekend homes in the hinterlands isn’t what it used to be.

Willis has been selling all his properties east of California recently: NYC, Turks and Caicos, and Idaho, a deaccessioning that brings to mind the Corleone family’s retreat from the east coast. But the Corleones relocated to Nevada; Willis may come to regret putting everything in the land of the woke. I’d have counseled him to at least preserve his sanctuary reside in Idaho, but he sold it last year for $5.5 million, seven years after putting it n the market for $15.5.

I’m guessing that the guy can easily afford to take a couple of hits to his real estate portfolio (he sold that Turks and Caicos place for $27 million, and the NYC digs for $17.775, essentially breaking even), but if California ever turns on its billionaires, he might regret holding illiquid assets anywhere on the Pacific coast.