ID Model Management

Model Mogul Paolo Zampolli Sells Gramercy Penthouse for $3.1 M.

With friends like Ron Burkle and Donald Trump and a lilting Italian accent, ID Model Management founder Paolo Zampolli (whose clients apparently include Tara Reid) has long been a Page Six fixture. But the high-rolling, aspiring real estate mogul drew the attention of the international media in 2005 when he started recruiting fashion models to moonlight as brokers.

When it came time to put his own two-bedroom, 2,300 square-foot Gramercy Park penthouse on the market about a year ago, however, Mr. Zampolli decided to handle the sale personally, listing the co-op with Elliman, with himself as broker.  read more »