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Couple win refund after buying £32m moth-infested London mansion
The daughter of a Georgian billionaire and her husband have been granted a refund after buying a £32m London mansion that was infested with moths.
Iya Patarkatsishvili and Dr Yevhen Hunyak bought the early Victorian seven-bedroom Notting Hill home in May 2019. It boasted a pool, spa, gym, wine room, library, cinema, and a “snoring room” designed for peaceful sleep.
Days after moving into Horbury Villa, the couple spotted signs of an infestation that would go on to destroy clothing and ruin their wine. They sued the house seller, William Woodward-Fisher, in an attempt to reverse the sale.
John McGhee KC, representing the couple in court, said at the peak of the infestation, Hunyak was swatting about 100 of the insects daily.
Before buying the property, the couple and their staff visited the house at least 11 times, the court heard.
Hunyak, a paediatric dentist who works in Chelsea, told the court that moths were landing on their children’s toothbrushes, cutlery and meals.
He said he was forced to tip out glasses of wine after discovering floating moths due to the infestation.
On Monday, high court judge Mr Justice Fancourt ruled that Woodward-Fisher, an elite property developer, had given “false” answers a
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By the late morning of February 14, 2008, the crushed-stone circular drive in front of Downside Manor was already crowded with Mercedes and BMW limousines. Chauffeurs and bodyguards stood in clusters, chatting and smoking as the stream of guests, dressed in black, made their way up the marble steps into the home of the late Georgian billionaire Arkady “Badri” Patarkatsishvili. Most guests had driven the half-hour to the Leatherhead, Surrey, estate from London, but others had flown in from New York, Tbilisi, and Moscow as soon as they’d heard the news of Patarkatsishvili’s death, at the age of 52, two days before.
He had collapsed in his bedroom after a family dinner. It was so unexpected that his widow, Inna Gudavadze, had little time to plan for the wake. But news of his death traveled fast. In Georgia, the mourning had already begun for the former Soviet republic’s richest citizen and one of its biggest philanthropists, who in 2001 had reportedly paid the entire gas bill for all of Tbilisi, its capital city. The owner of one of Georgia’s largest television stations, Patarkatsishvili was also the leading financial benefactor of the political opposition to President Mikheil Saakashvili, and a recent presidential candidate himself.
The news had also traveled the grapevine amo
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