Murdoch Buys 4 Floors of NYC Condo Tower for $57 Million

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch agreed to buy the top four floors of a condominium tower near Manhattan’s Madison Square Park for $57.3 million.

Murdoch, 82, who is also chief executive officer of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., went into contract to purchase two units at One Madison, a triplex penthouse spanning the 58th through 60th stories and another full-floor apartment beneath it, his spokesman, Steven Rubenstein, said. The properties total about 10,160 square feet (944 square meters), according to a statement from Related Cos., one of the developers of the tower on East 22nd Street in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood.