Tourists have been flocking to the Manhattan townhouse formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein, where neighbors said the new buyers are battling vandals with a predilection for smearing blood and excrement across the building’s gilded façade.

Three groups of people were seen taking selfies outside the house on East 71st Street during a random visit by The Post on Wednesday afternoon, mere hours before potentially explosive court documents containing the identities of more than 170 of the late pedophile’s associates began to be made public.

All photo-takers acknowledged they’d stopped by the tony digs expressly because of its connection to Epstein.

One visitor in his 30s from the United Kingdom said he was “doing tourist stuff on holiday” while in the Big Apple.

The other groups, which included a family with kids and a young couple, declined to comment.

After Epstein’s 2019 arrest for sex trafficking and ensuing jail suicide, the lavish home where he once preyed on underage women and entertained some of the world’s most powerful men languished on the market with an $88 million price tag.

What we know about the Jeffrey Epstein list of 170 associates

• On Wednesday, documents were released naming 170 associates of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The list included Michael Jackson, magician David Copperfield, Stephen Hawking, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former President Bill Clinton — who an Epstein victim said “likes them young, referring to girls.”
• Disgraced royal Prince Andrew, a known friend of Epstein, was named in the documents and was previously sued by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who accused Andrew of sexual misconduct toward her. According to one royal family expert, the Firm “will stand beside” the Duke of York “no matter what.”
• Epstein’s former attorney and friend Alan Dershowitz defended the late multimillionaire sex offender’s associates, saying: “None of us knew about his private life that he kept so secret.” Dershowitz, who is on the list, added that no one should be automatically convicted in the court of public opinion simply for showing up in court documents.
• Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told The Post that the ex-business mogul said he could have upended the 2016 election over what he knew about both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: “Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016.”
• Only some of the 170 names and their relationships to Epstein have been released. The remainder of the documents will likely become public record throughout the next week.

Keep up with The Post’s live blog on the revelations about Epstein’s associates revealed in the newly released documents here.

It was finally snatched up in the spring of 2021 by former Goldman Sachs executive Michael Daffey, who shelled out $51 million — a steal for one of the largest homes in Manhattan.

Daffey undertook a “complete makeover, physically and spiritually” of the house’s interior, sources said at the time, but the extensive work has apparently failed to erase the city’s memories of what went down on the block.

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“Recently, they had to cover the front doors with plywood. People were throwing s–t on the front doors. And coming and painting with blood. Three times the s–t. Two times the blood,” a neighbor told The Post Wednesday.

“They had to cover the doors with plywood, then it stopped. I don’t know if it was dog s–t or human s–t but it was terrible. They’re coming up and writing things on the doors with blood. All sorts of crazy things.”

The neighbor recalled seeing Epstein regularly when he lived on the street, adding that “he wasn’t that friendly” even though the perv sometimes stopped to talk.

Epstein’s old home could see an uptick in visitors in the coming weeks, as a trove of new court documents released Wednesday evening is expected to reveal the names of more than 170 people who were associated with, conspired with, or were preyed on by Epstein.