Explosive lesbian romance that began between an 'Avenging Angel' and a much younger British actress at Davos ends in toxic High Court fight - as property tycoon battles to stop her 'poor' bride getting £225m fortune
'The case we have run in court is that Angel Brunner is a fabulously wealthy woman who is gaming the system,' says Ayesha Vardag. 'She is using her financial imperium to try to grind her wife down. He ruled her in contempt for failing to make maintenance payments to her wife of more than £11,000, or meet her legal expenses.
- ▪'The case we have run in court is that Angel Brunner is a fabulously wealthy woman who is gaming the system,' says Ayesha Vardag.
- ▪'She is using her financial imperium to try to grind her wife down.
- ▪He ruled her in contempt for failing to make maintenance payments to her wife of more than £11,000, or meet her legal expenses.
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One is a beautiful 34-year-old British actress and singer called Thea Bartok, who once appeared in an action comedy alongside Kate Beckinsale and Stanley Tucci.The other is Angelique 'Angel' Brunner, a black American entrepreneur two decades her senior, who was born into poverty but battled her way to a degree from an Ivy League university and went on to amass a fortune estimated at £225million.The couple first met by chance in 2019 in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, where both were attending the World Economic Forum, the annual conference that attracts the most powerful movers and shakers on the globe, from international statesmen to billionaire tycoons.Despite their age difference and the fact that Bartok was still married to a man, they instantly fell for each other.
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