London : Husbands and wives in the middle of a divorce rarely see eye to eye. But the battle of the Rich List tycoons, which began over a Rolls-Royce, has shifted to the secret of a computer hard drive.
For I can reveal that Del Monte foods tycoon Vivian Imerman, 53, has lost his battle to prevent his estranged wife Lisa Tchenguiz, 43, from using 20,000 private documents seized from his computer in her fight for a share of her husband's fortune.
The papers were discovered on Imerman's computer after Lisa's property magnate brothers, Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz, threw Imerman, their former business partner, out of the Mayfair office the three previously shared. It was another twist in what has become an increasingly bitter and murky divorce. It is also likely to be one of the costliest. Lisa is believed to be seeking £100 million (Dh600 million) of Imerman's £300 million fortune.
A year ago, I told how the brothers ejected Imerman from the Curzon Street headquarters after Lisa, who had already filed for divorce, discovered her husband had sent his chauffeur to collect the £250,000 bullet-proof Rolls-Royce Phantom which she had been using. After a year of litigation, Justice Moylan, in the family division of the High Court, has ruled that both parties have to give full financial disclosure by today, and has agreed that Lisa can use the information her brothers discovered on Imerman's computer hard drive in her divorce.
—Daily Mail
