Leon Black, the US billionaire who quit his investment firm Apollo Global Management after an inquiry into his ties to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, is buying a £21m home in central London.
Black is understood to have agreed to buy 93 Eaton Square in Belgravia in the past few days, and to be paying £2m less than the £23m asking price.
The six-bedroom property, which was used by Margaret Thatcher after her departure from Downing Street in 1990, was originally the home of the three-time Conservative prime minister Stanley Baldwin. It later passed into the hands of Henry Ford II, the eldest grandson of the founder of the car company bearing his name.
Beauchamp Estates, the selling agents who had been marketing the Grade II* listed
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