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:
- $1.3M a year for clothes, including $53,000 for fur coats, $146,000 for haute couture dresses and $28,000 for shoes every year.
- $73 million for property plus $8.7 million to redecorate
- $37,000 for Wimbledon tickets
- $13,300 to attend Sir Elton John’s annual white tie ball
- $5.9 million dollars needed for a country home plus $454,000 for staff
- $647,000 to rent a yacht for two weeks, plus $6,439 to tip the crew
- $330,000 for a Paris holiday at the Presidential Suite at the Ritz, plus plus $99,000 for the nanny’s room
- As well as many other thousands of dollars for a vacation in the south of France, beauty treatments, luxury handbags, casual handbags, clutch handbags, mobile phones, new suitcases, face cream, and sunglasses.
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]
