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Olivia “Livvy” Dunne is determined to find her dream apartment in New York City.
A former NCAA gymnast, who faced rejection from a co-op board while attempting to purchase Babe Ruth’s old apartment on the Upper West Side, was seen exploring real estate options in a TikTok video shared on Sunday.
“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!!!!!!!!!!”
Known also as a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, she created a buzz when her efforts to acquire Ruth’s previous New York City dwelling failed. The property in question was a seventh-floor, three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom pre-war unit located at 345 W. 88th St.
The Upper West Side building’s co-op board turned down Dunne’s all-cash offer of $1.59 million shortly before she was scheduled to receive the keys, according to her TikTok announcement.
“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.