Hilton buys former London brothel

Rex Features

Paris Hilton's search for a London pad has concluded after she apparently purchased a property which once housed a Victorian brothel.

According to The Daily Star, the £850,000 East End property was also a former gin palace, Chinese restaurant and an opium den.

Hilton, 27, said: "It’s just beautiful. It doesn’t have regular rooms but is more like a maze."

The heiress is currently in the UK filming her new ITV2 show Paris Hilton's New Best Friend.

A source said: "Metal joists where clients were manacled to the wall for their own pleasure have been sympathetically restored so the juicy past of the place isn't lost. It's thought that sailors, pirates and vagabonds made the short journey from the Thames to smoke opium and indulge in their wildest fantasies after months at sea.

"Paris really appreciated the quirkiness of the place – and the knockdown price for such a unique building – and immediately put in an offer."