One57, at 157 West 57th Street Extell Development UPDATE (11:20 on July 3): We've heard from a spokesperson at Extell Development (which is behind One57) who tells us that the PM of Qatar did not buy the penthouse. Additionally, Gary Barnett, president of Extell, told the Wall Street Journal that the rumor is false. But as Morgan Brennan at Forbes points out, it's possible that parties involved in the sale signed non-disclosure agreements requiring them to keep mum about the buyer's identity, as is often the case in high-profile deals.

ORIGINAL: The billionaire Prime Minister of Qatar will pay $100 million for the most expensive apartment in New York City, the New York Post is reporting.

According to the Post, the Prime Minister, Sheik Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, has agreed to buy the two-story penthouse atop the still-under-construction One57 condominium where news brok that the penthouse apartment had sold for a record-breaking $90 million in May.

The mega-apartment isn't the only property the PM is picking up at One57, either. According to the Post, he's also planning to buy four other full-floor apartments in the building, bringing his total spend to around $250 million.

The Sheik, who has two wives and 16 children, made waves in the New York real estate world when he tried to buy property here earlier this year. He reportedly went after the Fifth Avenue apartment of late heiress Huguette Clark, but was turned away for having "too many kids."

He met similar resistance when he tried to buy pricey pads in two of New York's other exclusive buildings.