£19m Charles Dickens mansion could be seized over ‘unpaid mortgage'
The £19 million mansion where Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations is at the centre of a battle between a multimillionaire divorcee and her bank.
Deborah Fiorentino, 63, the former wife of the Italian aristocrat Giovanni Fiorentino, could lose the property in Regent's Park, London, after being accused of not paying her mortgage.
After taking out a £17.85 million loan against the mansion, a separate mews house and a third property in Hampstead, north London, Fiorentino is said to have incurred significant arrears.
She is now being sued by Banque Havilland, a Luxembourg private bank, over claims that she owes more than £10 million.
Lawyers for the bank have asked a judge to order that Fiorentino — who was also once married to the celebrity divorce
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