could potentially lose all the money it had invested in the hotel. That July, a New York state court ruled that Ashkenazy was required to pay its share of the $136 million lien that had been placed on the hotel. Deka sold the hotel in January 2023 to a joint venture of Beverly Hills-based Hawkins Way Capital and Minneapolis-based Värde Partners. At the time, The Real Deal magazine reported that Hawkins Way and Värde might convert the hotel building to housing. The sale was completed the next month for $153.4 million. Notable people Residents In late 1925, artist couple Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe moved into a two-room apartment on the 28th floor; they moved to the 30th floor in 1927. O'Keeffe painted several works of the Shelton or of the view from her room; according to Chave, the Shelton was O'Keeffe's "favorite architectural subject—which exemplified a vital turning point in skyscraper design". O'Keeffe later said: "I had never lived up so high before and was so excited that I began talking about trying to paint New York". Additionally, Steiglitz took photographs from the Shelton or from his gallery at An American Place, creating about 90 cityscapes from 1925 to 1937. Among the buildings he photographed from the Shelton were the RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the GE Building at 570 Lexington Avenue. O'Keeffe and Steiglitz's friend Claude Fayette Bragdon also lived at the hotel, and other artists, such as Miguel Covarrubias, Dorothy Brett, and Harold Clurman, also lived there for periods. The publisher Mitchell Kennerley moved into the hotel in 1948 and lived there for the last two years of his life. The playwright Tennessee Williams also lived at the hotel temporarily in 1945, when one of his plays was being rehearsed on Broadway. Other visitors In 1926, escape artist Harry Houdini escaped from an airtight case at the bottom of the hotel pool in 91 minutes. Canadian magician James Randi, recreating Houdini's escape at the hotel's pool in 1956, escaped in 93 minutes, two minutes slower than Houdini's record. New York governor W. Averell Harriman and New York County district attorney Frank S. Hogan both had offices at the Shelton Hotel during the late 1950s. Particularly in the late 1970s and early 1980s, numerous politicians held campaign events at the Halloran House. For example, the New York State Democratic Committee selected delegates for the Democratic National