Livvy Dunne Moves On After Being Blocked From Buying Babe Ruth’s $1.59 Million Apartment

Livvy Dunne Moves On After Being Blocked From Buying Babe Ruth’s $1.59 Million Apartment originally appeared on Parade.

Olivia “Livvy” Dunne is a Sports Illustrated cover star, a national champ with LSU gymnastics, and one of social media’s most-followed athletes—she’s also back on the apartment hunt after her first real estate deal fell through in classic New York fashion.

On Sunday, July 27, the 22-year-old gymnast-turned-influencer posted a TikTok showing herself skipping through the streets of New York with the caption, “What the NYC realtor’s hear when I’m back in NYC looking for an apartment.” The dramatic audio playing over the clip set the tone. “It isn’t Babe Ruth’s apartment but it’ll do,” she added in the caption.

Dunne’s TikTok was a follow-up to a video she posted on July 8, where she told fans she was denied by the co-op board at 345 West 88th Street—a building once home to baseball legend Babe Ruth. “I’m so upset,” she said in the clip. “The gag was it was Babe Ruth’s apartment. So naturally, I’m telling everybody, I’m excited, I was going to buy it.”

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She went on to say that she was going to put in an all-cash offer on the $1.59 million apartment and even brought her boyfriend, Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, to tour it. “The realtor was so confident, Paul and I went, I got an interior designer ‘cause I didn’t want to bring my college furniture to Babe Ruth’s apartment,” she said. “That would be, like, criminal.”

Everything seemed set until it wasn’t. “The week that I’m supposed to get my keys to my brand new apartment, I get a call. The co-op board denied me,” Dunne explained. “So pretty much the people in the building voted to not have me live there, which is fine.”

The seventh-floor, three-bedroom unit is located in a pre-war Upper West Side building where Ruth and his family lived for over a decade. While the “Bambino” may be the building’s most famous former resident, the neighborhood still draws high-profile names. Just a block away, American Ballet Theatre icon Misty Copeland owns a $3.1 million condo on West 88th Street, and lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart has a place nearby on West End Avenue.

Though Dunne didn’t say why she was rejected, she joked, “For all I know, they could have been Alabama fans and I went to LSU. I have no clue.”

Speculation swirled that Dunne’s public persona may have made the board nervous. A resident reportedly told The New York Post that her social media presence was “too much” for the building. Still, the seller’s agent called the board’s decision “shocking,” adding, “The board decision was final and that was it.”

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In her TikTok, Dunne offered advice to others eyeing a co-op deal. “Long story short, don’t try to live in a co-op,” she said. “You might get denied and you won’t get Babe Ruth’s apartment.”

The apartment is still on the market.

Livvy Dunne Moves On After Being Blocked From Buying Babe Ruth’s $1.59 Million Apartment first appeared on Parade on Jul 29, 2025

This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 29, 2025, where it first appeared.