Mariah Carey Lists Her TriBeCa Penthouse for $27 Million

The pop icon bought the home and onetime “Cribs” subject in 1999 for $9 million.

The prolific singer-songwriter bought the TriBeCa home in 1999, paying $9 million for the top three floors of the 18-story condominium, then combining them into one 12,728-square-foot triplex penthouse comprising eight bedrooms, six full bathrooms and three half bathrooms.

Ms. Carey tapped Mario Buatta, the interior designer known as “the Prince of Chintz,” to design the interiors and sprawling rooftop space. Shortly after it was completed, the home was featured on a 2002 episode of MTV’s “Cribs.” During the episode, Ms. Carey made six wardrobe changes and introduced nearly every room as her “favorite.”

Among those rooms: a 38-foot-long master bath/spa that included a lounge area with a television, a crystal chandelier and a jet bathtub; a theater room with a built-in aquarium and butterfly details throughout (a reference, perhaps, to Ms. Carey’s 1997 album “Butterfly”).

“We put them wherever we could,” Mr. Buatta told Architectural Digest at the time. “There are butterfly handles on the cabinets in the bedroom, and butterflies are woven into the bed hangings. They’re even on the soap in the bath and on the tiles in the kitchen.”

The listing, with CORE Real Estate, highlights the home’s 1,100-square-foot rooftop terrace, which offers 360-degree views of the Hudson River and the Manhattan skyline, as well as a fireplace. The photographed interiors are subdued compared with the glimpses of Ms. Carey’s home shared previously, though at least one butterfly remains, in the form of a metallic trinket tray in the rooftop’s Moroccan-inspired sitting area.

Ms. Carey’s real estate portfolio has included several purchases, sales and rentals over the years. In 1993, while married to Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, she built a 22,000-square-foot mansion on 51 acres in Westchester County, which the two sold following their separation four years later, for $20.5 million. She bought a $5 million beachfront compound in the Bahamas in 2007 that served as the setting for her surprise wedding to Nick Cannon, and the couple bought a Bel Air mansion for $6.9 million; both properties were sold following their separation in 2014.

In 2021, Ms. Carey bought a $5.65 million mansion in Atlanta, which she sold at a loss of $1.35 million in 2023. She has also rented properties in upstate New York, Los Angeles and Calabasas, Calif.