Bianca Jagger fights landlord over mouldy flat

Human rights activist Bianca Jagger’s New York apartment was blighted by so much mould it was “hazardous” to health, a court heard.

In just one room of the $4,900-per-week (€4,200) Manhattan flat there were spores spreading over an area of 120 square feet, her lawyers said.

“It’s unconscionable and it should be illegal,” said Ms Jagger, the former wife of Rolling Stone Sir Mick Jagger.

Ms Jagger is being sued by landlord Katz Park Avenue for not paying the rent on the apartment since April.

The company claims she has blown the problem out of proportion to get a rent reduction.

But Carol Abrams, a spokeswoman for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, told the Manhattan Housing Court on Monday that city inspectors had found eight violations at the apartment.

Among them were three “immediately hazardous” violations.

Ms Jagger has claimed the property damaged her health and filed a $21m (€18m) counter suit.

She said she had moved out of the apartment and into a hotel.