During his last four years in exile, Scott Rudin went to therapy and apologized to many people, sure, but also unloaded several of properties he owned in New York City and Long Island.
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After spending years in exile from Hollywood and Broadway, Scott Rudin is plotting some big changes. The megaproducer, the subject of a flood of allegations about verbally and physically abusing his staff, shared in an extensive interview with the New York Times that he will mark his return to Broadway this fall with a production of Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road, followed next spring by a staging of Montauk, a new play by Dan Hare. Also: He’s moving to the North Fork.
It turns out that in addition to going to therapy, making many apologies (“Not everybody was receptive to it”), and helping put together the artistic programming for Barry Diller’s Little Island (“liberating,” per the Times), Rudin has spent the last four years sorting out his real-estate portfolio. Months after The Hollywood Reporter published its exposé on Rudin in April 2021 — alleging, among other things, that he smashed an assistant’s hands with a computer monitor — The Social Network producer unloaded his San Remo co-op to former SparkNotes publisher Dan Weiss, and his wife, literary agent Amy Berkower, for $13.1 million. Then, in December 2024, Rudin sold his Bank Street Greek Revival–style townhouse in the West Village for just under $20 million — he had purchased it from Graydon Carter just five years earlier and originally listed it in March 2023 for $26 million.
After shuttling off to his hedge-lined East Hampton weekend home, Rudin tried building a house in Connecticut before realizing “that project was not how he wanted to spend his energy,” the Times notes. Now, he’s reportedly sold the East Hampton home plus, apparently, a lot of art, and is getting ready for his move to the North Fork. If the comeback’s a flop, at least he can get really into local wine. Maybe a membership with the North Fork Arts Center?