TV legend Norman Lear sells 15 CPW spreads for $17.5M

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One of America’s most prolific television producers and political activist Norman Lear — who turns 100 in July — and his wife Lyn Davis Lear have just sold their posh pad at 15 Central Park West for $17.5 million in an off market deal, according to property records.

They were original buyers in the building, paying $10 million for the 38th-floor unit in 2008. 

Lear — who won five Emmys, a National Medal of Arts and is in the TV Hall of Fame — created more than 100 television shows, including classics like All in the Family, Sanford and Sons, Good Times, One Day at a Time, Maude and the Jeffersons. 

The two-bedroom, two-bath unit is 2,367 square feet, and it went into contract in 2006. 

This year, the couple were interviewed about how to have a successful marriage; this is Lear’s third. The answer includes lots of laughter — along with a focus on children, spirituality and some psychedelics, they said. 

In 1980, Lear founded People for the American Way. By 2001, the Lears bought a Dunlap broadside, one of the first published copies of the Declaration of Independence for $8.1 million and toured with it.

In 2001, he also co-produced a filmed, dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence with Rob Reiner at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.  

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