Jeffrey Epstein’s NYC mansion completes massive renovation — as victim reveals horrifying sex torture she endured there
Jeffrey Epstein’s former Upper East Side mansion 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.
But a new memoir from Epstein’s late victim Virginia Giuffre has dragged 9 E. 71st St. — once New York City’s largest private home — back into the grim spotlight.
In “Nobody’s Girl,” which was released this week, Giuffre describes being repeatedly subjected to sado-masochistic sexual torture in a massage room that she named “The Dungeon.”
New Yorkers passing by the deviant’s Upper East Side mansion unanimously agreed: They’d never live there, no matter how much money they had to spend.Getty Images
Giuffre describes being chained up, fitted with a collar, and beaten in the room until she passed out
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The only change is a small brass “JE” that Epstein branded on the façade, which is now missing.
But it’s a different story inside.
Jeffrey Epstein’s mugshot on March 28, 2017.
City records show that a $925,000 renovation was completed last year by the home’s new owner, former Goldman Sachs exec Michael Daffey.
Daffey picked up the historic home for a bargain $51 million in 2021 — two years after Epstein was found hanged in a federal lockup in Manhattan while awaiting trial for raping and sex-trafficking women and girls.
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 “a complete makeover, physically and spiritually.”
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.
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
Epstein’s old walls, gilded ceilings, light fixtures, shelving, and gaudy molding and millwork were stripped away from many rooms and replaced with new trimmings, including a sizable dose of gypsum walling and tiling, according to building records.
His old appliances were excised from the kitchen, with his old, sprawling study being combined with the kitchen, breakfast room and a bathroom.
Epstein’s bedroom and his enormous master bathroom complex — which takes up at least a quarter of the third floor — appear structurally unchanged.
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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.
It’s that room that Giuffre called “The Dungeon” in “Nobody’s Girl,” posthumously released Tuesday after her April suicide.
And it’s where she said Epstein frequently raped her from 2000 to 2002 — including when she was still a teenager.
Giuffre described the room as a “gloomy” black marble alcove in Epstein’s house of horrors, which was filled with “garish” decor that she thought was intended to intimidate and disturb.
“Black-lacquered cabinetry, bloodred carpets, a huge taxidermied tiger and a custom-made chess set whose pieces were scantily clad women,” she wrote, also recalling how she was forced to sleep under a tapestry depicting wild boars devouring dead animals while screaming children watched in horror.
That room had an intercom that Epstein would use to summon her for sex — at the threat of punishment.
Every room in the home was rigged with cameras that the perv used to monitor his guests and victims alike, Giuffre said.
“To me, though, the house’s 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: ‘We’re always watching you,’” she wrote.
The Upper East Side mansion was brought back into the grim spotlight by a late victim of Epstein’s crimes, Virginia Giuffre.Obtained by the NY Post
But it was in “The Dungeon” where Giuffre described the worst depravity.
The assaults — which Giuffre referred to as Epstein’s “sessions” — generally began with her massaging him and pinching his nipples and ended with sex.
Over time, however, sessions in “The Dungeon” became more and more torturous.
The mansion at 9 E. 71st St. was detailed in the memoir “Nobody’s Girl,” in which Giuffre described being repeatedly subjected to sado-masochistic sexual torture in a massage room that she named “The Dungeon.”SDNY
“He’d 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,” Giuffre wrote.
“I 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.”
Giuffre detailed the horrific torture she suffered, describing how she would get beaten until she passed out.DOJ
“The backbreaking contortions this contraption forced upon me caused so much pain that I prayed I would black out. When I did, I’d awaken to more abuse,” she added.
It’s such experiences that many New Yorkers say would prevent them from ever setting foot in 9 E. 71st St.
“It’s a dark, dark, weird place,” said 26-year-old Henry Francois, who lives nearby.
“Would I live inside? No, I don’t think so,” he said. “Not that I believe in ghosts, it’s just terrible. It’s like when you walk around at night and have a weird feeling. You constantly feel on edge.”
It wasn’t always so. The roughly 20,000-square-foot house was built in the 1930s by Macy’s department store heir Herbert N. Straus, who died before it was finished. It was then donated to a hospital, and became a private school for years, before Victoria’s Secret lingerie mogul Les Wexner bought it and filled the rooms with Picassos. Like Straus, Wexner never moved in and instead sold it in 1998 to his longtime buddy Epstein for $20 million, the New York Times reported.
Daffey — an Australian who made a killing as a Goldman Sachs executive, then boosted his fortune through bitcoin while chairing the $21.8 billion crypto platform Galaxy Digital — bought the home after flipping his $24.6 million Noho penthouse.
The $925,000 renovation at the townhouse, located one block from Central Park, was completed last year.James Keivom
Numerous neighbors and passersby said they’d be fine living in a home where somebody died — but universally rejected living anywhere Epstein preyed.
“I honestly would be fine living in a place where someone would be murdered,” said Upper East Sider Chris O. “The sex dungeon stuff is where I draw the line.”
California native Liz likened living in the house to calling a Holocaust museum home.
