An accountant who purchased a £1.5million Versace-designed London flat is suing to get her money back after she discovered her bathroom did not come with a bath.
Mi Suk Park paid £381,000 for a deposit on a two-bedroom apartment and parking space in the 50-storey Aykon London One tower in Nine Elms.
She claims she was promised the 'ultimate in luxury' for the flat in the building dubbed 'Versace Tower' after a high-profile collaboration between developers and the fashion house to design the interiors.
The off-plan purchase was made after Ms Park, 54, had viewed a brochure and floorplan and made the 'lifetime decision' to splash out on the deluxe pad - which was intended to be her and her husband's 'main home until retirement'.
But when she first viewed the apartment in person, it was 'materially and manifestly different from the layout as set out in the plan and description' that she had seen before paying the deposit, she told Central London County Court.
She then refused to move in to her new home and is now suing for more than £700,000, demanding the deposit money she paid and cash to cover five years' rent, alongside other losses she suffered.
Her gripes include one bedroom being smaller than she expected, one of the two bathrooms not having a bathtub, an intrusive utility cupboard which 'impinges' on what she expected to be an 'open plan living space' and a two-year delay in the apartment being ready.
But developer Nine Elms Property Ltd - a Jersey-based entity owned by a parent company in Dubai - is fighting the claim and counter suing the accountant for not completing the purchase, insisting her deposit has been forfeited.
