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Metro
05-07-2025
- Business
- Metro
Billionaire's wife gets £230,000,000 after he said she'd have to work at Tesco
A billionaire's wife has been awarded £230million in Britain's third largest ever divorce payout. The unnamed woman was threatened by her husband she would have to work 'at the tills in Tesco' if she kept to a postnuptial agreement the couple signed in 2021. A court found that her free will had been taken away by the man's coercive behaviour towards her. The husband had sought to use scare tactics to 'frighten' the wife and even tried to 'drive a wedge' between her and her lawyer, the Telegraph reported. The pair had started married life with 'zero' but made a fortune after the husband successfully floated his tech firm, netting him an estimated £1.5billion. They moved to the UK six years later to give their three children an English education, according to the judgment. Under the laws of their country of origin, known only as 'Country A', the couple equally owned all of the assets acquired during their marriage. While the pair are thought to have once been worth £1.82 billion, their wealth had declined to £545million by the time of divorce in 2022. More Trending Her awarded bumper payout amounted to approximately 44% of the couple's assets. Mr Justice Cobb, determining the case, said: 'I am satisfied, from all that I have read and heard, that the wife was ultimately placed in a position of obvious disadvantage.' Claire Gordon, a partner at Farrer and Co, the firm who represented the wife, said the family court judgement was a recognition of the impact a 'build-up of persistent and attritional conduct places on relationships'. She added: 'There does not need to be a 'blow up' event or an interaction for there to be improper pressure or control – the effects of such conduct are insidious.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Drug lord guilty of torturing love rival to death after plotting murder with victim's ex MORE: Porn star took zip wire Brighton day out with older couple 'before killing them' MORE: Idaho murderer flashes wry smile and pleads guilty to stabbing four students
New York Times
28-03-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
The Last 2 Months — and Next 2 Years — of U.S. Politics
This is an edited transcript of an episode of 'The Ezra Klein Show.' You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. Ezra Klein: Welcome to the second-ever 'Ask Me Anything' for subscribers. If you're here, that means you have subscribed and linked your subscription. We are doubly grateful. We received a truly astonishing number of amazing questions — of which we will not get through even the most minute fraction. But we will do what we can. I'm joined today — as I am so often, both in front of the mic and behind the scenes — by our wonderful executive producer, Claire Gordon. Claire Gordon: Great to be here again, Ezra, for our first A.M.A. of the Trump era. Reading through the questions, I would say the temperature of the audience right now is quite high. There were a lot of questions about whether we will have fair elections in 2028. Klein: Will we? Gordon: That's my first question. Klein: That's where we're starting? Gordon: How high is your internal temperature on this? What is the right temperature? Klein: Your internal temperature should be feverish. I think we're going to have elections. But I also think we're very likely going to have a constitutional crisis. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
