Soap star Susan Lucci lists Hamptons family retreat that she and her husband built 25 years ago
For good or ill, Susan Lucci is known best not just for playing "unequivocally the most famous soap-opera character in the history of daytime TV," but for her astounding 18 consecutive losing Emmy nominations. When she finally won in 1999, "All My Children" writers were so ebullient that they arranged to have her character sent 19 dozen roses (pink roses are Lucci's favorite). And they inserted a special line into the script for the love-to-hate-her fictional villainess, Erica Kane:
"You know 19 has always been my lucky number."
Now Lucci has listed the Hamptons escape that she and her husband built a couple of decades ago.
Asking price: $19 million.
Well, OK, $19.995 million, but who's counting?
The family's home has almost 11,000 square feet of living space, including what the listing describes as a "European-style castle door," a "turreted library" and a "spectacular catwalk above the living room where you'll feel like you're in a lighthouse." The land is 1.4 acres, with 160 feet fronting the ocean.
Lucci and her husband of 44 years, Helmut Huber, commissioned the house 25 years ago and have spoken warmly of it. She told Hamptons Magazine in 2008 that the views from the living room, her favorite space in the house, "are just beautiful ... almost 360 degrees." That was a request of her husband's when they were building: that he be able to see the ocean right when he walked in the door. She settled on tiny Quogue, on the South Shore of New York's Long Island, because it's a "family town," and she said it's "one of the best things I've ever done."
Still, the price tag seems "slightly high" to the experts over at Curbed Hamptons for a house that "looks like a Shingle Style crossed with the '80s."
Think she'd be happy with an even $19 million?
