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Diane Sawyer Sells 'Chip Chop' On Martha's Vineyard For Nearly $24M: Report

Veteran news anchor Diane Sawyer sold her 20-acre “Chip Chop” on Martha’s Vineyard for just under the asking price to investor David Malm, reports said. 

Malm, who spent over $100 million on properties in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket over the past few years, paid $23.9 for the 10-bedroom, nine-bathroom estate, Boston.com reported

The main home at the estate

Bob Gothard/ Wallace and Co. Sotheby's International Realty

Sawyer first bought the luxury property for $5.3 million in 1995 with her husband, acclaimed director and writer Mike Nichols, who died in 2014. She put the estate up for sale through Sotheby's International Realty at $24 million back in August.

She bought the home in 1995 with her late husband, Mike Nichols.

Bob Gothard/ Wallace and Co. Sotheby's International Realty

The compound at 794 and 690 Chappaquonsett Rd. in Vineyard Haven includes the main three-bedroom home, a two-bedroom cottage, and two beach houses. The properties sit on a 17.4-acre lot and another measuring 2.84 acres.

Sawyer put it on the market because she didn't spend enough time at the 20-acre estate.

Bob Gothard/ Wallace and Co. Sotheby's International Realty

The compound, which also has two half baths and 8,147 square feet of living space, was built in 1937 for Broadway actress Katharine Cornell, the Daily Voice previously reported.

The property has four homes: a three-bedroom main house, a two-bedroom caretaker’s cottage, and two elegant beach houses built in 2007.

Bob Gothard/ Wallace and Co. Sotheby's International Realty

Sawyer, who graduated with a degree in English from Wellesley College in 1967, became a co-anchor of CBS Morning News in 1981 and a correspondent for 60 Minutes in 1984, according to the school’s Alumnae Achievement Awards page.

The property comes with a mile of shoreline, but if you don't want to swim in the salt water, it also comes with a pool that overlooks the ocean.

Bob Gothard/ Wallace and Co. Sotheby's International Realty

She went on to co-anchor “Primetime Live,” “Good Morning America,” and “20/20,” before anchoring “ABC World News.”

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