Never there, but back again (Updated)
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It couldn’t get $95 million in 2008, nor did it succeed at $75 million in 2015, but the former 268-acre estate of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger’s family (they cashed out in 1992), “Hillendale” at 1233 Rock Rimmon Road in Stamford is on the block again, still looking for $75 million. Maybe; as listing agent Joe Barbieri said back in 2015, “If someone wants to have their own planet, Hillandale is the place to go. There’s nothing else like it.’
Update: A comment by Snotty Philistine about Pinch’s look: “Sulzberger has the physiognomy of someone who was a frequent guest on Epstein Island” reminded me: he’s mentioned in dispatches:
Epstein Email: “outing” New York Times publisher Sulzberger will see “the end of the establishment.”
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 4, 2026
One month before the abrupt departure of Arthur Ochs ‘Pinch’ Sulzberger Jr as publisher of the New York Times, Epstein wrote to attorney Brad Karp: “How about Sulzberger would… pic.twitter.com/8pv9k4kGca
In a later exchange on 11 December 2017, Wolff and Epstein discussed high-profile candidates for the next round of sexual abuse scandals. Wolff wrote: “Big names on the horizon… my favorite: Arthur Sulzberger.” Epstein replied: “you and I are old news? :)”
On 13 December 2017, the NY Times announced 66-year-old Pinch’s retirement as publisher of the NY Times. His retirement took effect two weeks later. One day after the announcement Epstein, emailed his long-standing contact Landon Thomas Jr., then a journalist at the New York Times, writing “Sulzberger - told you”, to which Thomas Jr. asked for proof “that was driving this”. Epstein replied: “wait”.
Epstein's relationship with the Sulzberger family dated back to the 1970s, when he spent time at the Sulzberger family's country estate, according to a draft Epstein profile written by Landon Thomas Jr. for NY Magazine in 2015, which was never published.