{"id":50302,"date":"2025-11-24T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50302\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:23:07","slug":"owning-manhattan-star-jessica-markowski-found-out-man-she-found-home-tortured-someone-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50302\/","title":{"rendered":"Owning Manhattan Star Jessica Markowski Found Out Man She Found Home Tortured Someone There"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a real estate horror story. Jessica Markowski<\/a> from Netflix\u2019s Owning Manhattan<\/a> just opened up about a real estate transaction that ended up going horribly wrong. She helped a guy find a townhouse in SoHo earlier this year, only to later find out that it had been used as a torture chamber. We assume her commission check still cleared, but the revelation left Jessica feeling rattled.<\/p>\n

Jessica Markowski detailed the harrowing incident<\/p>\n

\"JessicaPhoto Credit: @jessicamarkowski via Instagram<\/p>\n

Season 2 of Owning Manhattan is coming to Netflix soon<\/a>, so the cast has been running around on a press junket. When speaking with People, Jessica detailed how one of her clients, William Duplessie, ended up involved in a crime that made national headlines.<\/p>\n

Remember the story about the cryptocurrency investor who allegedly held a guy captive and tortured him to try to steal his crypto wallet<\/a>? That\u2019s the guy! Jessica helped him get the townhouse where it all went down, and she felt \u201cscared\u201d when she found out the news. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt that moment, I was just very fearful. Like, am I involved?\u201d Jessica said. \u201cI was just really scared of what was going to come through all of this. Like, did I do something wrong? But no, I didn\u2019t. I just happened to secure them a townhouse, and lo and behold, that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessica vetted William and \u201cdid all the protocols\u201d before securing the property. However, the real estate reality star<\/a> never could have predicted he\u2019d end up involved in such a highly-publicized crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, you don\u2019t really know your clients so well,\u201d Jessica noted. \u201cMy job is to secure a home, and I don\u2019t really know the underlying things that happen with their own personal business. That was very hard on me when that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Somehow, this isn\u2019t the only reality TV connection to the crypto torture case. Next Gen NYC<\/a> star Charlie Zakkour<\/a> was at the scene when William and his co-defendant got arrested. Allegedly, it was a frequent hangout spot for him. Small world, right?<\/p>\n

Today, William is still sitting on Riker\u2019s Island for his role in the alleged crime. He pleaded not guilty and has a hearing scheduled for December 10.<\/p>\n

Owning Manhattan<\/a> Season 2 drops on Netflix on December 5. <\/p>\n

TELL US \u2013 WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON JESSICA\u2019S CONNECTION TO THE CRYPTO TORTURE CASE? ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING HER BACK FOR SEASON 2 OF OWNING MANHATTAN? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a real estate horror story. Jessica Markowski from Netflix\u2019s Owning Manhattan just opened up about a real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20809,75,84,83,9,24,63,18722],"class_list":["post-50302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-jessica-markowski","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-owning-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50302","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=50302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}