The Federal style columned veranda that Truman Capote used to sit upon while penning prose now officially belongs to Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar Games (what would Peter Vallone, Jr. say?). The Brooklyn Heights home was on the market until recently, when Houser scooped it up for $12.5 million—the most expensive real estate deal in Brooklyn history, according to the Observer, who likens Houser to Herman Melville and Grand Theft Auto to Moby Dick.
According to the listing, there are 18 rooms, 11 bedrooms, 7 full baths and 1 half bath, taking up about 9,000 square-feet. Sotheby’s broker Karen Heyman talked about the home, located at 70 Willow Street, noting its “38 windows with east, south, and west exposures, including parlor floor Jeffersonian floor-to-ceiling pocket windows and French doors," and describing it as a "quiet refuge"... which doesn't exactly sound like a place that would fit into Liberty City, the five borough city created by Houser & Co. for Grand Theft Auto IV. How long before he sets up a brothel/drug den and burns the place down?
Here's a look at the home when Capote inhabited it, and here are "ten fabulous facts" about the digs.
