Family Behind Grocery Store Dynasty Sells UES Home For $6M: Report

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The family behind the Weis Markets grocery store chain has sold its longtime Upper East Side home for $6 million as its members face a lawsuit over an allegedly stolen multimillion-dollar painting, according to Crain's New York Business.

The Weis family sold the four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath co-op on Fifth Avenue at East 72nd Street to a real estate dynamic duo: Saeed and Edna Amirian, Crain's reported.

The apartment was owned by Robert and Patricia Weis up until their deaths, according to the report.

The sale comes about a month after the three siblings, who handled the sale, were sued by William Lie and Arthur Zeckendorf over a painting — by French abstract artist Pierre Soulages — that they allege was stolen and then sold at auction for $5 million, according to Crain's.

Read the original story by Crain's New York Business here.

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