Iranian elite have left London’s ‘billionaire’s row’ a ghost town

Desolation Row: A drone shot of a dilapidated mansion on the world-famous Bishop’s Avenue(Picture: W8media)

The cronies of the former Supreme Leader of Iran killed in a US airstrike have snapped up 13 mansions on London’s billionaire row, leaving them to rot, the Metro can reveal.

For decades, The Bishop’s Avenue, in Hampstead, has been a safe haven for dictators and the mega-wealthy but very few of the shipping magnates, oil barons and families of exiled political elites actually live there.