Article: Billy's Manhattan transfer; Big Yin's back in the U.S. as he buys [pounds sterling]2m New York loft.

Byline: MAUREEN CULLEY

HE grew up in the poverty of a Glasgow tenement, where he was born in 1942.

Now Billy Connolly has risen from his humble roots to build a property empire worth an estimated [pounds sterling]6million.

The Scots comedian and his wife, Pamela Stephenson, have paid $3,850,000 - about [pounds sterling]2million - for a loft on New York's Fifth Avenue.

The addition of the three bedroom, 10th floor luxury apartment has boosted a property folio that is already in a bracket the young Connolly could never have dreamt of as he grew up in Partick.

Two years after selling his house in LA for nearly $4million, the ...

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