Accused kidnappers William Duplessie and John Woeltz lived a party-bro lifestyle at the Soho townhouse where they allegedly tortured an Italian tourist — sometimes ordering so much fancy food they didn’t even bother to bring it inside.
“Will and John would order about $1,500, $2,000 in food every day, literally from the best restaurants. They would get delivery food from Nobu, Cipriani, Blue Ribbon, you name it,” one visitor to the house told The Post Wednesday. “There was one time I came in and it was the funniest thing — they had $600 of Blue Ribbon [delivery] sitting outside that nobody even got.”
Duplessie, 33, and his 37-year-old pal Woeltz — who reportedly calls himself the “Crypto King of Kentucky” and has boasted of holding $100 million in digital currency — have been arrested on charges including the kidnapping and assault of Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan.
The Italian national claims he was held against his will for 17 days, from May 6 to 23, and allegedly tortured for the password to his $30 million Bitcoin wallet.
The visitor to Woeltz’s rented townhouse described a lavish scene at the property, where police reportedly found Polaroid photos of Carturan with a gun to his head, as well as firearms and ammunition, night vision goggles, a ballistic vest and traces of blood.
“They had every type of liquor, thousand dollar bottles of wine, $20K of liquor including Pappy Van Winkle,” said the visitor. “They were always smoking weed at the house” — to the point that they “set off the smoke detector.”
The scene lined up with one crypto insider’s description of Duplessie, who is from Miami but also said to have ties to Switzerland.
He turned himself in Tuesday after reportedly partying hard in the Hamptons over Memorial Day weekend, according to sources.
“I saw him at parties. He was quite the partier,” said the insider, who recalled “douchey” Duplessie’s days in Miami, including at the Fontainebleu Hotel. “He struck me as a little ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ I think would be the right way to phrase it. Like if you gave a frat guy $100 million.
“He drank a lot. He was hitting on girls a lot, sometimes obnoxiously and in a rude sense.”
According to TMZ, the pair “partied like every day was their last.” And a source previously told The Post that the Soho townhouse, which Woeltz was allegedly renting for roughly $30,000- to $40,000-a-month, saw plenty of people coming in and out — including some well-known socialites.
A video obtained by TMZ shows Duplessie dancing shirtless in a club with a woman on his shoulders — revealing tattoos of leopards, the seal of Kentucky and the coiled “Don’t Tread on Me” rattlesnake of the Gadsden Flag, which is today associated with rebellion and distrust of government.
Duplessie and Woeltz are also pictured partying at The Box, an exclusive erotic nightclub in Manhattan, where they would reportedly drop up to $100,000 in a single night before inviting girls back to the Prince Street townhouse.
Another alleged guest was Charlie Zakkour — a club kid turned crypto trader who is one of the stars of a new Bravo reality show.
A video from Woeltz’s arrest Friday shows a blond man looking concerned as cops led Carturan away from the Soho townhouse. Page Six reported the man is Zakkour, whose show, “Next Gen NYC,” premieres June 3.
The series, according to Bravo’s website, “follows a tangled web of friends raised in the spotlight — or at least close enough for good lighting — as they stumble into adulthood one brunch, breakup and spontaneous decision at a time.”
The cast includes Gia Giudice, whose mom, Teresa Giudice, is a longtime fixture on “The Real Housewives of New Jersey”; Ariana Biermann, daughter of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kim Zolciak-Biermann; Ava Dash, the daughter of Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Damon Dash and fashion designer Rachel Roy; and Riley Burruss, whose mom, Kandi Burruss, formerly of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.”
While Zakkour isn’t a reality show nepo baby, he does come from enormous privilege. Mom Elizabeth Williams is an art collector in Palm Beach and dad Anwar Zakkour, who has an address in Manhattan, is a private investor who has held high-profile roles at JP Morgan, CitiBank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was the Global ead of Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking.
Page Six previously reported that Zakkour, who is not implicated in the alleged crimes, would sometimes “crash” at Woeltz’s luxurious Prince Street pad.
On Wednesday, a source said that Zakkour is known as the “Chuck Bass” of “Next Gen NYC” — a reference to Ed Westwick’s bad-boy character from “Gossip Girl.”
“We don’t see him at his job on the show. He’s just a kid making it in Manhattan like the other kids,” the source said, adding that filming “has been done for a long time” and “I don’t think anyone [on the show] has spoken to him” since it wrapped.
Another source told The Post that Zakkour knew the accused through the crypto world.
The crypto insider said that Duplessie “was known, at least, to be a successful person in the space” — but admitted that “a lot of crypto people are a little obnoxious, and I think [Duplessie] had that reputation.”
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