A millionaire couple have lost a £100,000 court fight after accusing their US business tycoon tenants of ruining their soft furnishings with the smell of his cigars.
PR boss Nick Boakes, 65, and his husband Harald Denker faced off in court with Jonathan Hagmaier and his wife, Mary, after accusing them of polluting the luxury London flat with smoke and leaving his £10,000 rug infested with moths and snails .
Mr Boakes had rented the £50,000-a-year basement flat of his Grade-II listed Victorian house in Warwick Avenue, Little Venice, to the US power couple in 2018.
Mr and Mrs Hagmaier, who themselves own over 100 properties as part of an investment scheme, were based in the UK for two years and were charmed by the elegant Italianate building in a street where properties sell for up to £10m.