As she bopped around Qatar at the World Cup and walked the red carpet at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, globe-trotting Brazilian fashion model and swimwear entrepreneur Alessandra Ambrósio, who has made Los Angeles her home base for more than a decade, concurrently turned a nearly one-million-dollar profit on the sale of her long-time New York City crash pad.

Listed at not quite $3 million and freshly sold for $2.75 million, Ambrósio acquired the roughly 1,600-square-foot duplex aerie, in Manhattan's Murray Hill neighborhood, about 17 years ago for almost $1.9 million. Ambrósio was represented in the deal by Paul Hazen at Douglas Elliman; the buyer was handled by Lena Datwani of Sotheby's International Realty - Downtown Manhattan Brokerage.

The two-bedroom and two-and-a-half-bath condo, which boasts three separate outdoor spaces, is perched atop The Whitney, a 29-story full-service tower built in the mid 1980s. Ringed by curvilinear balconies, the building presides over a traffic-thronged corner, where East 38th Street crosses an approach to the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

Regularly ranked as one of the planet's highest earning fashion models, who's strutted her long-legged stuff on runways and in advertisements for a laundry list of iconic fashion houses, Ambrósio had the penthouse overhauled by acclaimed Sao Paulo- and New York-based Brazilian architect Arthur Casas. Interior spaces are light and voluminous, finishes are clean and simple, and interior windows provide not only unexpected transparencies between rooms but also allow for light to travel unobstructed throughout the penthouse's two floors.

A slim balcony wraps around two sides of the glamorously double height living room, and there's a sleek and compact, all-white galley kitchen squeezed between the foyer and dining room. With three closets, a full wall of custom built-ins and private bath, the main-floor guest bedroom opens to a small balcony, while the upstairs primary bedroom has a wall of glass that looks down on the living room below.

In the attached primary bathroom, sheathed in small, rectangular white tiles, the tub is set into a niche with a frameless corner interior window that allows someone bathing in the tub (or sitting on the commode) to see the city skyline through the glass slider in the adjacent den. Outside the den, convertible to a third bedroom, the penthouse's largest terrace has ample room for dining and lounging with the city as a backdrop.

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