Want to live like Lady Gaga? Singer's old NYC apartment available to rent for $1,850 a month
By Sarah Fitzmaurice
Last updated at 11:42 AM on 22nd November 2011
She lived there for three years while she was struggling to make a name for herself in the music industry.
But fans of Lady Gaga can now live in her old NYC apartment which is currently on the market to rent at a mere $1,850 per month.
The Born This Way singer lived in the one bedroom flat in Manhattan when she was just Stefani Germanotta, before she found fame with her alter ego Lady Gaga.
Mother monsters bedroom: Lady Gaga's old apartment is available to rent for $1,850 a month
Modest beginnings: The 25-year-old singer lived in the flat in the Lower East Side for three years
The 25-year-old singer moved to the trendy Lower East Side area in 2006, leaving her parents plush home in the Upper West Side.
John English of Citi Habitats described the flat as ‘a real bargain for the area’.
While many of Gaga’s monsters will no doubt love to live where she the realtor insists the price hasn’t been increased because of its famous past tenant.
English said: ‘We haven't upped the price because Lady Gaga used to live there - although it could definitely be seen as a selling point.’
After dropping out of NYU in her freshman year in 2005, the singer’s father agreed to bankroll her for 12 months and paid the rent on her fifth floor apartment for her.
The apartment consists of a small bedroom area,a bathroom a basic kitchen and modest living area.
Small place: The apartment consists of a single bedroom a bathroom, a modest living area and a kitchen
Bankrolled: When the singer, real name Stefani Germanotta, had her home paid for by her father when she dropped out of college
Speaking about living in the flat Lady Gaga said: 'It was like I had to go lick the ground for a few years to understand New York City and a whole different side of the pavement.
'I wanted to live alone live in solitude with my music. I wanted to read poetry and be overly dramatic about everything and that's what I did.
Yesterday it emerged that Lady Gaga gives her dad Joe 50 percent of her earnings under their LLCs, Team Love Child and Mermaid Music.
Gaga believes her father has earned his share of her fortune and her success has allowed him to realize a lifelong dream. He now works in the industry, managing aspiring artists.
In fact, this holiday weekend, Thanksgiving in the US, the most outrageous pop star in the world will go home to her parents' house on the wealthy Upper West Side of Manhattan and stay in her childhood bedroom.
Going Gaga: A lucky fan could live in Lady Gaga's old apartment in New York which is currently available to rent
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