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Olivia “Livvy” Dunne is determined to find her dream apartment in New York City.
The retired NCAA gymnast, who was denied by a co-op board from attempting to purchase Babe Ruth’s former Upper West Side apartment, was scouting real estate, as seen Sunday in a video on her TikTok.
“What the nyc realtor’s hear when I’m back in nyc looking for an apartment,” Dunne, 22, wrote, including a clip of her skipping on the sidewalk.
“It isn’t Babe Ruth’s apartment but it’ll do,” added the former LSU champion gymnast.
Dunne, a native of New Jersey and the girlfriend of Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, didn’t elaborate about her apartment search.
Former Playboy model Holly Madison commented with, “You deserve Babe Ruth’s apartment!!!!!!!!!!”
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model made waves after she struck out in her bid to buy Ruth’s former New York City home — a seventh-floor, three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom pre-war residence at 345 W. 88th St.
The co-op board in the Upper West Side building rejected Dunne’s purchase — a $1.59 million, all-cash deal — days before she was set to pick up the keys, she said in a TikTok video.
“I get a call. The co-op board denied me,” Dunne told her eight million followers in a video titled, “I’m just disappointed that’s all.”
“Pretty much the people in the building voted to not have me live there, which is fine. It got to the point where the realtor was so confident, Paul and I went, I got an interior designer because I didn’t want to bring my college furniture to Babe Ruth’s apartment, that would be like, criminal.”
Dunne explained that she had “no clue” why she was rejected to purchase the apartment, which she said would’ve been her first real estate purchase.
However, The Post learned from one resident in the West 88th Street building that Dunne’s online presence was too much for the board.
The seller’s agent from Compass told The Post their team was “all shocked and displeased” by the board’s rejection, and tried unsuccessfully to get them to reconsider.
“The managing agent got back to me days later and said the board decision was final and that was it,” the seller’s agent said. “The seller’s real estate attorney liquidated (Dunne’s) deposit and that was it and we’re back on the market.”
The board doesn’t have to disclose why they turned Dunne down, the agent noted.
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