A love triangle, featuring World Cup winning footballer Cesc Fàbregas, his Lebanese girlfriend and her disgruntled ex-husband, came to light at a London Court of Appeal this week, reported the Times on Thursday.
The former Arsenal captain and the mother of his child, Daniella Semaan, are involved in a property battle with her former husband, Elie Taktouk.
The former couple divorced last year, months after photographs appeared in the media showing her on holiday in Italy with Fàbregas.
The two opposing parties are clashing over a multi-million pound flat in the area of Belgravia, Central London.
As part of their divorce, a judge ruled that the £7 million ($10,807,300) flat should be sold. £1.4 million was ordered to be set aside from the proceeds to allow Semaan to buy a new property.
The proceedings encountered an unexpected twist when a company, controlled by Fàbregas, put in a £5.4 million bid to buy the flat.
Tartouk claims the bid is part of a plot to allow his former wife to retain the apartment while banking a profit of almost £1.5 million, according to The Times.
Stephen Lyon, a barrister working on behalf of Taktouk, told the Court of Appeal that Mr. Justice Coleridge, a senior judge, would have made a different ruling regarding the apartment had he known Fàbregas's property plans.
"We say it is rather extraordinary that, less than three weeks after judgment was handed down, through his company in Barcelona, he was offering to purchase [the flat]," said Lyon.
Lord Justice Jackson, the appeal court judge, said Wednesday that he had denied Taktouk's right to appeal.
"Even if the company controlled by Mr. Fàbregas buys the former matrimonial home, this will still not be a property which the wife owns," he said. "She will live there only by the permission of Mr. Fàbregas."
25 Apr, 2013
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Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/04/25/F-bregas-Lebanese-girlfriend-in-legal-battle-with-ex-husband.html
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