Ghislaine Maxwell's former London pied-a-terre, where Prince Andrew allegedly had sex with Virgina Roberts, is on the market less than a year after she sold it to help pay legal fees for her high-profile trial in the US.
Maxwell sold the mews house in London's Belgravia, just a stone's throw from Harrods, last April for £1.75 million as she prepared to face charges that she recruited and trafficked young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell, 60, was found guilty by a jury last December and faces up to 65 years in prison as she awaits sentencing after fighting the case, which is estimated to have cost her around £7 million.
Her former Belgravia home was purchased by a property development company and is now up for sale for £2.6million, a price which it is likely to fetch given its location in one of London's most exclusive districts.
Ghislaine Maxwell's mews house in Belgravia (pictured) is on the market for £2.6m seven months after she sold it for £1.75m
Would be buyers will get the opportunity to bathe in the bathroom (pictured) where Virginia Roberts alleges that she had sex with Prince Andrew in the bath one night in 2001 when she was a 17-year-old trafficking victim of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
Ms Roberts claims that she slept with Prince Andrew at the Belgravia home of Maxwell shortly after this photo was taken of them all together on the first floor landing of the property, which is outside the bathroom
A floor plan of Maxwell's former home (above) shows where the well-known photo was taken which is central to Ms Giffre's civil case against Prince Andrew which is due to be held in the US later this year. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing
The three double bedroom property is said to be where Andrew was photographed with his arm around the bare waist of then 17-year-old Roberts, one of convicted paedophile Epstein's victims, who is now known by her married name as Virginia Giuffre.
The stylish but simple house has emerged as central to her civil action in the US against Andrew. She alleges she had sex with him in the bathroom of the property, one of three occasions in 2001 she claims that she was forced to have sexual relations with him on the orders of Epstein and Maxwell.
Andrew has always strongly denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he has never even met Ms Roberts, now a 38-year-old mother-of-three living in Australia.
The home (above) is being sold by Wellbelove Quested, based in Knightsbridge, specialising in high end properties
In her memoir, recalling her visit to Maxwell's Belgravia house, she wrote: 'I turned on the taps for the tub and the heat from the water began to steam up the small room . . . Trying to do the best of my youthfulness to try and act seductive, I gradually began to strip off my clothing, piece by piece . . . He loved every second of it as I went over to where he was waiting and watching, then began to undress him.'
She also described the bath as being a 'Victorian-style bathtub in the middle of the room' which was on a beige marble tiled floor.'
Ms Roberts claimed that after being with Andrew at Tramps nightclub, where he was 'raining sweat' over her in March 2001 they returned to Maxwell's Belgravia home to have sex.
Andrew hit back at the allegations in a BBC Newsnight interview, denying that he was able to sweat because he had an 'overdose' of adrenaline in the Falklands war when he was shot at.
He insisted that for him it 'was almost impossible to sweat.'
Ms Roberts' lawyers have since asked for medical evidence to prove this as they prepare their civil case against Andrew.
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