During her 12 years as Westchester County district attorney, Jeanine Pirro relentlessly pursued child molesters, domestic abusers, and Robert Durst, the central figure in HBO’s The Jinx, which includes a recounting of Pirro’s 2000 attempt to convict the real estate heir for the 1982 murder of his wife. (The case is also the subject of her latest book, He Killed Them All, due out next month.) After putting so many people in the big house, Pirro, who is now the host of the Fox News legal-analysis show Justice with Judge Jeanine, is getting out of her own big house—a European-style manor in Rye’s prestigious Flagler Matthews estate area, listed for $4.995 million with Michele Flood of Coldwell Banker Real Estate.
Pirro and her ex-husband, lobbyist Albert Pirro, who was convicted in 2000 for tax fraud, built the 12-room home in 1988, adding a dramatic brick loggia and marble floors. “It has been a happy home, a family home,” says Pirro, who touts the gated 1.5-acre property’s excellent security system. “But I’m at a different point in my life now. I don’t need to have parties for 200 or dinners for 30.”