Inside the ugly fight over 'moth-infested' £32.5m Notting Hill mansion: Billionaire's daughter claims she kills 100 pests a DAY as they destroy her clothes, wine and toothbrushes - but the seller is refusing to buy the home back By SARAH RAINEY Published: 01:46 GMT, 16 November 2024 | Updated: 01:57 GMT, 16 November 2024 e-mail 4 View comments When Iya Patarkatsishvili first set eyes on the house in April 2018, she knew she had to have it. A sprawling, gated Victorian villa in London 's stylish Notting Hill, boasting its own spa, swimming pool, wine room, cinema and library, as well as a one-of-a-kind 'snoring room' for a peaceful night's sleep, Horbury Villa truly was a fairytale mansion.
But Iya, 41, and her husband, Yevhen Hunyak, 50, wanted to be sure. With a price tag of £32.5 million, this was not a decision to be taken lightly.
So over the next 13 months, the couple – and people working for them – visited the property another 11 times, fastidiously checking everything from drainage pumps to noise from a nearby pub. During one visit, they brought a sound engineer and insisted on total silence while they looked around. Eventually, in May 2019, they were satisfied, stumping up the eye-watering purchase price (plus £3.
7 million in stamp duty) and moving in with their two children, Adrian and Amelia. At first, it seems, life at Horbury Villa truly was the domestic idyll they'd imagined. Pictures on Iya's social media over the years show the wealthy family of four pos.
