{"id":11792,"date":"2025-10-22T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11792\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:20:06","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-scrubbed-from-his-manhattan-townhouse-after-major-renovation-but-victim-virginia-giuffres-new-memoir-reminds-world-what-happened-at-house-of-horrors-dark-weird-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11792\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein scrubbed from his Manhattan townhouse after major renovation, but victim Virginia Giuffre’s new memoir reminds world what happened at house of horrors: ‘Dark, weird place’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s former Upper East Side mansion<\/a> has undergone a massive, million-dollar remodel in an attempt to scrub all traces of the pedophile financier and his twisted sex crimes, The Post can reveal.<\/p>\n

But a new memoir from Epstein\u2019s late victim Virginia Giuffre<\/a> has dragged 9 E. 71st St. \u2014 once New York City\u2019s largest private home \u2014 back into the grim spotlight.<\/p>\n

In \u201cNobody\u2019s Girl<\/a>,\u201d which was released this week, Giuffre describes being repeatedly subjected to sado-masochistic sexual torture in a massage room that she named \u201cThe Dungeon.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Yorkers passing by the deviant\u2019s Upper East Side mansion unanimously agreed: they\u2019d never live there, no matter how much money they had to spend. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Giuffre describes being chained up, fitted with a collar and beaten in the room until she passed out. <\/p>\n

The townhouse \u2014 located one block from Central Park<\/a> and across the street from The Frick Collection \u2014 appears much as it always did from the outside. <\/p>\n

The only change is a small brass \u201cJE\u201d that Epstein branded on the fa\u00e7ade, which is now missing.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a different story inside.<\/p>\n

City records show that a $925,000 renovation was completed last year by the home\u2019s new owner, former Goldman Sachs exec Michael Daffey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daffey picked up the historic home for a bargain $51 million in 2021 \u2014 two years after Epstein was found hanging in federal lockup in Manhattan while awaiting trail for raping and sex trafficking women and girls.<\/p>\n

It was a huge price-cut from the $88 million asking price, and sources told The Post at the time that the finance bigwig was planning \u201ca complete makeover, physically and spiritually.\u201d<\/p>\n

Records indicate Daffey completed renovations on five floors, which included knocking down numerous walls to open up the maze of rooms where Epstein preyed on countless women and entertained heads of state, journalists, academics and captains of industry for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

Epstein\u2019s old walls, gilded ceilings, light fixtures, shelving, and gaudy molding and millwork were stripped away from many rooms, and were replaced with new trimmings, including a sizable dose of gypsum walling and tiling, according to building records.<\/p>\n

His old appliances were excised from the kitchen, with his old sprawling study being combined with the kitchen, breakfast room and a bathroom.<\/p>\n

Epstein\u2019s bedroom and his enormous master bathroom complex \u2014 which takes up at least a quarter of the third floor \u2014 appear structurally unchanged.<\/p>\n

However, a wall has been knocked down in a nearby back bedroom that appears to be the infamous massage chamber where Epstein abused scores of victims.<\/p>\n

The infamous estate of Jeffrey Epstein has undergone a massive remodel to eliminate all traces of the sex crimes that the pedophile financier committed. David McGlynn<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that room that Giuffre called \u201cThe Dungeon\u201d<\/a> in \u201cNobody\u2019s Girl,\u201d posthumously released Tuesday after her April suicide.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s where she said Epstein<\/a> frequently raped her from 2000 to 2002 \u2014 including when she was still a teenage girl.<\/p>\n

Giuffre described the room as a \u201cgloomy\u201d black marble alcove in Epstein\u2019s house of horrors, which was filled with a \u201cgarish\u201d decor she thought was intended to intimidate and disturb.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack-lacquered cabinetry, bloodred carpets, a huge taxidermied tiger and a custom-made chess set whose pieces were scantily clad women,\u201d she wrote, also recalling how she was forced to sleep under a tapestry depicting wild boar devouring dead animals while screaming children watched in horror.<\/p>\n

That room had an intercom that Epstein would use to summon her for sex \u2014 at the threat of punishment. <\/p>\n

Every room in the home was rigged with cameras the perv used to monitor his guests and victims alike, Giuffre said.<\/p>\n

The Upper East Side mansion was brought back into the grim spotlight by the late victim of Epstein\u2019s crimes, Virginia Giuffre. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

The mansion at 9 E. 71st St. was detailed in the memoir, \u201cNobody\u2019s Girl,\u201d in which Giuffre described being repeatedly subjected to sado-masochistic sexual torture in a massage room that she named \u201cThe Dungeon.\u201d SDNY<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, though, the house\u2019s most unsettling design detail was a hidden back staircase whose banister was adorned with a series of carved eyeballs that stared at you as you gripped them, climbing up or down. The message was clear: \u2018We\u2019re always watching you,’\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

But it was in \u201cThe Dungeon\u201d where Giuffre described the worst depravity.<\/p>\n

The assaults \u2014 which Giuffre referred to as Epstein\u2019s \u201csessions\u201d \u2014 generally began with her massaging him and pinching his nipples and ended with sex. <\/p>\n

Over time, however, sessions in \u201cThe Dungeon\u201d became more and more torturous.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019d begun to experiment with whips and restraints and other instruments of torture. In session after session, he would play out various fantasies, with me as the victim,\u201d Giuffre wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was gagged, and often hog-tied. Epstein liked to put a black leather, metal-studded collar around my neck that continued down my spine, where it attached to a chain that bound my hands and feet tightly together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Giuffre detailed the horrific torture she suffered, describing how she would get beaten until she passed out. DOJ<\/p>\n

The $925,000 renovation at the townhouse, located one block from Central Park, was completed last year. James Keivom<\/p>\n

\u201cThe backbreaking contortions this contraption forced upon me caused so much pain that I prayed I would black out. When I did, I\u2019d awaken to more abuse,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s such experiences many New Yorkers say would prevent them from ever setting foot in the 9 E. 71st St. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a dark, dark, weird place,\u201d said 26-year-old Henry Francois, who lives nearby.<\/p>\n

\u201cWould I live inside? No, I don\u2019t think so,\u201d he said. \u201cNot that I believe in ghosts, it\u2019s just terrible. It\u2019s like when you walk around at night and have a weird feeling. You constantly feel on edge.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t always so. The roughly 20,000 square-foot house was built in the 1930s by Macy\u2019s department store heir Herbert N. Straus, who died died before it was finished. It was then donated to a hospital, became a private school for years, before Victoria\u2019s Secret lingerie mogul Les Wexner bought it and filled the rooms with Picassos. Like Straus, Wexner never moved in and instead sold it to in 1998 to his longtime buddy Epstein for $20 million, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n

Daffey \u2014 an Australian who made a killing as a Goldman Sachs executive, then upped his fortune through Bitcoin while chairing the $21.8 billion crypto platform Galaxy Digital \u2014 bought the home after flipping his $24.6 million Noho penthouse.<\/p>\n

Numerous neighbors and passersby said they\u2019d be fine living in a home where somebody died \u2014 but universally rejected living anywhere Epstein preyed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly would be fine living in a place where someone would be murdered,\u201d said Upper East Sider Chris O., \u201cThe sex dungeon stuff is where I draw the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

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California native Liz likened living in the house to calling a Holocaust museum home.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t think you\u2019ll have any level of peace or tranquility in a house like that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cToo many ghosts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s former Upper East Side mansion has undergone a massive, million-dollar remodel in an attempt to scrub…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6769,75,84,83,6337,57,9,24,63,1491,466,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-11792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-mansions","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-real-estate","18":"tag-upper-east-side","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}