Posted By: Mark MelinPosted date: September 08, 2015 02:26:41 PMIn: BusinessNo Comments Ken Griffin may be acquiescing to one of his wife’s demands, namely that she and the children be allowed to move to New York. Either that or news that billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin quietly purchasing a Manhattan condo valued in excess of $200 million means the founder of Chicago-based Citadel could feel the need to show his New York counterparts the size of his financial muscle. Griffin purchase in "billionaire's bunker" among the most expensive, as Ken makes a splash Griffin is “quietly” purchasing multiple units at 220 Central Park South, known as the “billionaire’s bunker,” according to Emily Smith in the widely followed New York Post’s Page Six column. The purchase would be among the most expensive in Manhattan real estate history. Reports had initially pegged a Qatari oligarch as closing the deal to make a single penthouse out of multiple units, reportedly paying $250 million. But the Post is reporting that Griffin is the actual buyer and he is getting a better deal near $200 million. The “billionaire’s bunker” was built in what was a rent stabalized building with 124 apartments. The relocated tenants were paid near $1.4 million each so that a Robert A.M. Stern-designed, 950-foot-tall tower could protrude along the southern end of a magnificent Central Park skyline. Prices will range from $30 million to $160 million-plus in the building when it is complete. Griffin in middle of difficult divorce, as performance held up during August crisis Griffin is in the middle of what was at one point a somewhat public and bruising divorce battle with his second wife, former fund manager Anne Dias-Griffin, who is requesting $1 million per month in child support that is “in line with her current family expenditure,” the Post reported. Dias-Griffin currently resides in the 67th and 68th floors of a prominent gold coast high rise in Chicago. She is seeking to invalidate the couple's prenuptial agreement and is requesting a hearing on child support. After the couple announced their separation, Ken purchased the 66th floor right beneath the family residence. The couple are battling over real estate in Chicago, Aspen, Co. as well as a jointly held property at 820 Fifth Avenue in New York. While many fund managers are known to struggle during divorce proceedings, Griffin has remained above the fray. In August, a month the bedeviled many long-only funds, Citadel was reported to have delivered noncorrelated performance. The divorce doesn't appear to be rattling Griffin, who He recently told the Wall Street Journal that his divorce proceedings are a breeze. Citing the 2008 crash, when Citadel nearly collapsed, he said of his divorce in a Wall Street Journal report: "Sixteen weeks at the end of 2008 make this look like a walk in the park.” His monthly gross income “approaches $100 million,” divorce papers show. His net monthly income after taxes “averages more than $68.5 million” — which the Post calculated "works out to more than $2.2 million a day." Why is Griffin making the move to purchase among the most expensive pieces of real estate in the world? While a pending divorce agreement, with kids moving to New York, could be the reason for Griffin’s move, residing in the “billionaire’s bunker” could also be a safety move, particularly if some of Griffin’s financial predictions, a topic widely discussed behind the scenes, comes to pass. Or perhaps Griffin just thinks that the dating scene for newly single middle-aged billionaires is better in New York than Chicago?