Linda Evangelista Lets Go of Her West Chelsea Perch After Twenty-Plus Years

Linda Evangelista has closed the sale of her top-floor Manhattan home in West Chelsea, and the price was $6.75 million. She had owned it for over twenty years. In Manhattan, that kind of tenure is almost unheard of. Most residences change hands so often the doormen stop learning names. Down here we know the type of owner who stays put. Palm Beach families keep the same house for generations, and Naples counts patience as a virtue. Miami tends to treat a five-year stay as a long one. Twenty-plus years in one Chelsea home is the kind of loyalty Florida readers recognize and respect. A sale like this gives someone else the keys to a home that one of the most recognizable faces in fashion kept for a very long time.

With reporting from Robb Report.