A house owned by Ghislaine Maxwell where a photo at the centre of Prince Andrew’s sex scandal was allegedly taken has gone up for sale.
Maxwell’s former home in the exclusive area neighbourhood of Belgravia, in London, has been listed for £3.25million. It is almost double the £1.75million that property developer Stuart Robinson paid for the three-bedroom mews when the convicted sex trafficker sold it in April, 2021.
The property is believed to be where the notorious photo of the Duke of York with Virginia Giuffre, formerly Roberts, was taken on March 10, 2001. Ms Giuffre, then 17, claims that she was forced to have sex with Andrew in a bath at the home by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell. Andrew has always fiercely denied the claims.
And Maxwell referred to the bath in a 2016 civil defamation case with the transcript of her video deposition released by a New York judge. Maxwell speaking about Giuffre said: “She then characterised things took place in my bathroom in the bathtub itself. The tub is too small for any type of activity whatsoever.”
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The house in Belgravia has gone on the market
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Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking
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The house is listed now by the estate agents Chestertons which describes it as “a charming, newly refurbished three bedroom house arranged over three floors”. It continues: “The property offers generous ground floor entertaining space and a wonderfully bright principal bedroom suite on the second floor with a spacious ensuite bathroom and dressing room. The principal bedroom has glazed doors leading out onto a west facing room terrace.”
It is situated near the flagship Harvey Nicols store as well as Harrods in Belgravia and is believed to have not been lived in since it was sold by Maxwell. And new photos with the new listing show that the bathroom appears to be unchanged since it was first pictured in 2022 and many of the original features remain.
Maxwell pictured with Epstein
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An appeals court in the US denied Maxwell’s bid to have her previously rejected appeal against her conviction for sex trafficking reconsidered last November. Court documents show Maxwell filed a request to judges on the second circuit in the southern district of New York for a “panel rehearing” – requesting the court reconsider its decision.
She was found guilty in December 2021 of luring young girls to massage rooms for paedophile financier Epstein to molest between 1994 and 2004. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the federal court in the southern district of New York (SDNY) in June 2022. Her appeal was rejected in September, with three judges – Jose Cabranes, Richard Wesley and Raymond Lohier Jr – ruling that she was not the subject of an unfair trial.