Rupert Gets Physical: Tycoon Builds $400,000 Penthouse Gym

New York Observer   |  Max Abelson   |   June 20, 2007 09:11 AM


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Once renovation on Rupert Murdoch's triplex penthouse is completed, he'll have an extra-large room for beefing up those willowy 76-year-old muscles.

According to a 2005 construction permit just discovered on the Department of Buildings' Web site, Mr. Murdoch is enlarging the existing exercise room in his three-level penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue, which he bought two years ago for $44 million from Laurance Rockefeller's estate.

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