Winfrey home on market for $2.8M

May 26, 2012 2:00 AM

CHICAGO (MCT) Media giant and former talk-show host Oprah Winfrey placed her eight-room, 4,607-square-foot co-op unit on the market Tuesday for $2.8 million, half of what she paid for the unit in 2006.

The three-bedroom unit never was Winfrey's home. She paid $5.6 million for the sixth-floor property in 2006, but had a change of heart after buying it, opting to remain in her massive duplex condominium spread in a different building a few blocks away.

From June 2008 until January 2009, Winfrey had the unit on the market for significantly more than she does today, seeking $6 million for it. Late last year, Winfrey, who ended her long-running, Chicago-based talk show a year ago, had placed the co-op up for rent for $15,000.

Now, Winfrey, who spends much of her time in California and Hawaii, has the property up for sale. She does not have her duplex condo on the market at this time.

The unit that Winfrey is trying to sell is one! of 13 a partments in a Beaux-Arts-style building that was built in 1913 and designed by architect Benjamin Marshall.

Winfrey's unit has three full baths, two half baths, 10-foot ceilings, two fireplaces, inner foyer, library, solarium, formal dining room, butler's pantry, wine room, custom eat-in kitchen, 1,241-square-foot master bedroom with his and her's bathrooms, and an en-suite guest bedroom.

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