Jimmy Choo co-founder shocking revelations

Shoe queen Tamara Mellon has been denounced as ‘cruel’ and ‘bitter’ by her brother after revealing shocking details of her broken relationship with their mother.

Glamorous Tamara, 46, who sold her Jimmy Choo empire two years ago for £100 million (Dh592 million), described in a detailed new autobiography how her mother — former Chanel model Ann Yeardye — was an alcoholic who once pushed her across a bed, causing her to hit her head against a radiator. She also alleged that Ann would ‘psychologically assault’ her.

In the book, serialised in The Mail on Sunday earlier this month, Tamara said that her mother had a ‘raging lunacy’ that flared up routinely.

She told how her father Tom described Ann as selfish and self-obsessed, and recalled how her mother once passed out on the bathroom floor of a Beverly Hills restaurant.

But last night Gregory Yeardye defended his mother and claimed that Tamara, right, owed everything to the generosity of their parents. He said: “My mother wasn’t an alcoholic. She never abused us.

“We had amazing parents. We were spoiled. Had it not been for them, Jimmy Choo would not exist.”

Gregory, 43, a Beverly Hills estate agent, added that Ann had also been denied access to her only grandchild — Tamara’s ten-year-old daughter Minty. He said: “Tamara is so bitter. For a grandmother to be robbed of a grandchild and for a grandchild to be robbed of a grandmother, that’s cruel. My mother did many kind things for Tamara. I love my sister, but I’m bitterly disappointed in her.”

In her book, New York-based Tamara also described how her ‘mean’ mother left her on the edge of despair during a high-profile court case in which she tried to claim shares in the Jimmy Choo business.

She is standing by the revelations and is now working on her own fashion label.