Who Says You Can’t Live Large in Publishing?

By Neal 

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One of our readers passed on a tidbit from the latest issue of Architectural Digest on the $28 million asking price for Linden Farm, former Simon & Schuster head Richard Snyder‘s 60-plus-acre Westchester estate with an 8-bedroom Tudor Revival house. The estate has been in the news recently because in Snyder’s lawsuit against Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Linden Farm was identified as the site of a secret negotiation where EMI chair Eric Nicoli attempted to broker a peace between the two. But it seems like that house has been on the market for a while—Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner may have looked at it in 2005, around the time the property was spotlighted in Forbes, which admired it for having “everything one needs to live a pampered country life.” And they were asking $28 million for it then, too.