Sting’s Manhattan Penthouse Is On The Market For $45m

David Bowie’s NYC apartment may have hit the market last week, but the starman isn’t the only A-lister to have once boasted a New York home with Central Park views. Sting’s Manhattan penthouse has also gone up for sale – all for a cool $45m. 

Look Inside Sting’s Manhattan Penthouse

The property was purchased by Sting (real name Gordon Summer) back in 2008. It was while wrapping up a reunion tour with The Police, which culminated at Madison Square Garden, that the group’s longtime frontman got a real taste for the city. He soon doled out $27m on not one but two stacked apartments at 15 Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, then newly designed by Robert A.M Stern. Seeking to combine the two units into one home, Sting and his wife, the award-winning film producer and environmental activist Trudie Styler, hired New York-based architecture and interior design firm SheltonMindel to transform the two apartments into a singular duplex.

Following a nearly decade-long residence, in 2016 it seems the couple were eager for a new project and so decided to upgrade a $65.7m penthouse in another Stern-designed building at 220 Central Park West. The pair put their old New York home up for sale for $56m, selling it on just a few months later in 2017 to an unnamed buyer for $50m – almost double what Sting originally bought the two units for. According to the New York Post, the property then sat empty after the couple’s move. And has now – unfortunately for whichever property mogul was hoping to turn a profit – returned to the market for $45m, a whole $5m less than what the current owner originally paid. 

Designed in the New Classical Style, 15 Central Park West is divided into two halves: the 19-storey House and the 35-storey Tower. Sting’s former home was set on the 16th and 17th floors of the House, from which floor-to-ceiling windows and a 400 sqft terrace offer views over Central Park and the Hudson River. For a cool $14,282 per month in maintenance fees, residents can also access the 24-hour doorman and concierge services, a fitness centre with a skylit lap pool, spa facilities, screening and game rooms, a wine cellar, and a private restaurant. 

Spanning roughly 5,400 sqft, Sting’s old abode features four bedrooms (one currently used as an office), four full bathrooms and two powder rooms, including a strawberry-red space which looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. A semi-private elevator landing opens onto the bottom level (of what was once a self-contained apartment), through which sits a living room, dining area, library, media room and all-white kitchen. Key features of this floor include the two spiral staircases (including a double-height sculptural one in the entrance gallery), as well as a modern open gas fireplace that delineates the living and dining areas, and which features a curvaceous design informed both by the shape of the stairs and the Fibonacci spiral.

From here, ascend via the second elevator or the staircase to the study and bedrooms – including the principal suite which boasts dual dressing rooms, baths, and a sauna clad in dark grey stone. The residence also comes with permitted plans for a redesign by Foster + Partners architect Lord Norman Foster. 

Where Else Does Sting Own Homes?

As well as the penthouse at 220 Central Park West, which the couple still own, Sting also boasts a beachside estate in Malibu and a 16th-century Tuscan villa named Tenuta Il Palagio near Florence. With a 900 acre vineyard on-site, the couple have been producing biodynamic wines from the estate for over 15 years, including several bottles named after Sting’s songs, such as ‘Sister Moon’, ‘When We Dance’ and the aptly-labelled ‘Message in a Bottle’. 

In the UK, meanwhile, Sting owns a 16th-century, Grade I listed Elizabethan manor in the Wiltshire countryside. Purchased in 1990 for a reported £7m, the estate is said to feature 800 acres of land and an on-site recording studio. The star did use to own a home in Hampstead, but this went up for sale in 2025 for £11.95m and is still on the market nearly a year on, now for £1m less than the original asking price. 

On the market for $45m. Find out more at elliman.com