Livvy Dunne blocked from buying Babe Ruth's apartment: 'They could've been Alabama fans'

Livvy Dunne revealed that she was blocked from buying Babe Ruth‘s apartment in New York City. The former LSU gymnast went to TikTok to share the story and said the ordeal happened a few months ago.

“I decided I was going to make my first real estate purchase, which is so exciting, and I was going to get an apartment in New York City,” Livvy Dunne said in the video. But the gag was that it was Babe Ruth’s apartment.

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“So naturally, I’m telling everybody. I’m excited. I was going to buy it, and I was going to pay with cash. I wanted this apartment bad. It got to the point where the realtor was so confident. Paul [Skenes] and I went, I got an interior designer because I didn’t want to bring my college furniture to Babe Ruth’s apartment. That would be criminal.”

Dunne then said that the co-op board denied her from buying the apartment a week before she was going to get the keys. “The people in the building voted to not have me live there, which is fine,” Dunne said. “It wasn’t financial. It could have been… For all I know, they could’ve been Alabama fans, and I went to LSU. I have no clue. Maybe they didn’t want a public figure living there, but I was literally supposed to get the keys, and that week, they denied me.

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“It was just iconic. It was so cool that it was Babe Ruth’s apartment. But long story short, don’t try to live in a co-op. You might get denied, and you won’t get Babe Ruth’s apartment.”

According to the New York Post, the apartment Dunne tried to purchase is located in the Upper West Side and cost $1.59 million. It includes three bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, and Ruth lived there with his late second wife late adopted daughter from 1920 to 1940.

Dunne made an estimated $9.5 million in NIL deals since 2021. During her time at LSU, the New Jersey native helped the team with the gymnastics SEC and national championships in 2024. She is currently dating Paul Skenes, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who is a two-time All-Star and won the NL Rookie of the Year award in 2024.