You read correctly, but the sale was actually in 2000, not 2008. Curbed miscopied from the Times, which has the correct date. The price still seems a bit low, but less so knowing the sale was eleven years ago.
Hey, I'm not necessarily defending the BI's on the basis of quality. It's just that if you were to make a list of things that Gawker is, "a site that posts copy/pasted blind items every day shortly after ten" would have to be pretty close to the top.
@LostBedStuy: The best part is that Huckabee has type 2 diabetes. If his life had turned out differently, he'd probably have a pretty hard time getting insurance himself.