Triplex at 176 Perry st

Hugh Jackman was the reported buyer of Sun Mircrosystems co-founder Bill Joy's 11,000-square-foot triplex at 176 Perry Street, a staggering piece of minimalist beauty (if that's your type of thing), for "somewhere above $25 million." And what a deal that would have been! You see, Joy spent around $17.5 million on the apartment—the entire eighth through tenth floors of the Richard Meier-designed Far West Village building—and then hired Meier himself to build-out the interior (above) for probably a couple million more. Joy never moved in and listed the spread for a crazy $40 million, then chopped it down to $33 million where it wasted away for another six months (monthly maintenance: $27,841) until Wolverine pounced. Indeed, "somewhere above $25 million" would have been a relative bargain, but there's a surprise twist ending.