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Article: Billy's Manhattan transfer; Big Yin's back in the U.S. as he buys [pounds sterling]2m New York loft.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2007
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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 ...