Another high-end divorce, and we’re back to the London courts.
This time, instead of the ridiculously wealthy Russians, we’re dealing with an American-born former supermodel who married a Saudi billionaire.
[What’s going to happen to all the London divorce lawyers when their clients are no longer allowed to access the UK?]
On Tuesday, ex-Pirelli calendar girl Christina Estrada demanded that her ex-husband, Dr Walid Juffali, pay her $262 million. This after she rejected the $49 million settlement offered.
Listing her lavish lifestyle as the reason for such a figure, her lawyers made a list of items she would need to buy on an annual basis:
So now you know. Sickening, isn’t it?
At the high court Estrada took the stand announcing:
I am Christina Estrada. I was a top international model. I have lived this life. This is what I am accustomed to.
The divorce comes after Dr Juffali’s decision back in 2012, to marry a 25-year-old Lebanese television reporter while he was still married to Estrada – a marriage permissible under Saudi law.
Her court exchanges continued, this time between her and Estrada’s ex-husband’s lawyer. From the The Daily Beast:
You are claiming for 55 pairs of boots and shoes, at a cost of £58,000 every year. Can you not see that that is a lot of money?
“Not really,” Estrada replied. “That is what they cost. That is the standard I am used to.”
The 35 watches she needed were part of a collection, and necessary as “it depends what I am wearing and needs to go with my outfit.”
Estrada’s entertainment bill demand—$16,000 a year—was possibly undermined when, asked which to name another opera besides La Traviata she had been to see (in Paris, no less), Estrada replied, The Nutcracker, which—as was pointed out to her—was a ballet.
Oh dear.
[source: thedailybeast]
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