Livvy Dunne says she was denied in bid to buy Babe Ruth’s old apartment

Livvy Dunne apparently got stiff-armed in her attempts to purchase an apartment that once belonged to The Great Bambino.

The gymnastics star Dunne revealed in a post this week to her roughly 8 million followers on TikTok that she was denied in her bid to buy Babe Ruth’s old apartment in New York City. Dunne, 22, said the apartment was supposed to be her very first real estate purchase and that she was even ready to pay for the apartment in cash because she wanted it “bad.”

But Dunne said that she got a call the week that she was supposed to get her keys to the apartment and learned that the co-op board had denied her in an official vote. You can see her full TikTok video explaining the situation here.

David K. Li of NBC News noted that the late New York Yankees icon Ruth lived in the apartment from 1920-40. The apartment is located in the Upper West Side and is a three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom unit that had been listed at $1.595 million.

Dunne is already budding baseball royalty in a sense thanks to her highly-publicized relationship with Pittsburgh Pirates pitching sensation Paul Skenes. She even noted in her video that Skenes had already been to the apartment with her and that she had even already hired an interior designer to work with them.

However, the apartment’s co-op board apparently put the kibosh on any possibility of a Ruth-to-Skenes apartment lineage. Dunne noted in the video that it is possible that the co-op board simply didn’t want a famous public figure living there and bringing fanfare and commotion along with them. But Dunne is clearly disappointed about being unable to purchase the old living quarters of The Sultan of Swat, adding to what has already been a trying last couple of months for her.