The couple had needed a short-term home having uprooted from their previous flat in Mayfair - after the countess complained it had too many flights of stairs - and moved into a deluxe apartment near Portobello Road in November 2021.īut they clashed with the landlord after they developed cash flow problems in the lead-up to the collapse of their property development company Niboco Ltd, which was wound up in July 2022.Ĭountess Christine Bolza (pictured) says she and husband, Count Niki Bolza, were left 'living in total darkness' with 'no lighting or heating or fridge' after falling out with the owner of an Airbnb in London which the couple rented last year

The countess, whose husband is an aristocrat of Austro-Hungarian and Italian descent, complained the ordeal was 'particularly hard' for their young son, to whom she couldn't even read a bedtime story. An Airbnb landlord faces a £100,000 court bill after leaving a count and countess living in 'total darkness' and 'utterly freezing' by cutting off their electricity.Ĭountess Christine Bolza, 48, told a judge she and her husband, Count Niki Bolza, 51, were left with 'no lighting or heating or fridge' after falling out with Talha Abbasi, the owner of a £3,435-per-month Airbnb in Maida Vale, London, which the couple rented in November 2021.

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