Private Properties -Sale-O

By Staff Writers

09/09/2005

ENTERTAINER Harry Belafonte, whose brand of Jamaican folk music helped fuel a calypso-music craze in the U.S., sold his ocean-front hme in the Caribbean for $2.2 million. A buyer wasn't named. The singer of "Banana Boat" (known as the Day-O song) built the 3.3-acre, Mediterranean-style estate in 1982 on Plum Beach. The house is in the French-administrated part of St. Martin (the southern section of the island is part of the Netherlands). Architect Robertson Ward, whose company designed and built a number of large residential homes in Barbados, the Bahamas and Antigua, designed Mr. Belafonte's property, which has four bedrooms, gardener and caretaker cottages and a pool. Rodney Dillar, president of Illustrated Properties International, had the listing.

Mr. Bela fonte, 78 years old and in recent decades involved in many humanitarian causes, also listed his Manhattan apartment about two months ago for $15 million. He's owned that Upper West Side, 21-room apartment since 1956, when he purchased the entire 13-story building after being denied an apartment there. He turned the building into a cooperative two years later. Maria Pascal and Richard Mortimer of Prudential Douglas Elliman have the Manhattan listing.

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