Money honey Maria Bartiromo drops $6.5 million on new digs

-NEIL CNBC must be paying Money Honey Maria Bartiromo big bucks to be good friends with corporate big wigs. The CNBC anchor and her husband, Jonathan Steinberg, have paid $6.5 million for a five-bedroom townhouse on Manhattan’s East Side. It sounds like a pretty nice pad too. Wonder what Jeff Zucker's place looks like? Features in the townhouse, which is in Manhattan’s Treadwell Farm area, include four and a half baths, four fireplaces, moldings, hardwood floors, high ceilings, a new kitchen, gas heat, a five-zone central air conditioning system, an ADT security system with two cameras and a flat-screen monitor, new double-windows, an audio system throughout, and all-new mechanicals, according to listing information. Public records show that the townhouse was built in 1899 and measures 3,708 square feet. CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo pays $6.5 million for Manhattan townhouse [BTL]

Questions still linger about CNBC's "CEO Honey"

Apparently we all just want to know if there is more to CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo's relationships with big shot CEOs. Is she CNBC's secret weapon for coaxing inside news from corporate execs by flirting her way onto their private jets? An article in this morning's New York Times looks deeper into her relationships in Corporate America and gives us a play by play of the whole Todd Thomson thing. November 2005, Citigroup gathered top clients at a lush spa resort in Napa Valley for two days of wine tasting and a chance to road test some of the hottest luxury cars on the market.The test drivers included Todd S. Thomson, then the chief executive of Citigroup’s wealth management arm, car collectors, clients of the bank and Maria Bartiromo, the CNBC anchor and celebrity guest. Questions Grow About a Top CNBC Anchor [NYT]