A financial trader who complained of 'gender prejudice' when being handed only £325,000 of his ex-wife's £60m-plus family fortune has won his divorce appeal after she hid how much she was worth.
Wealthy heiress Jenny Helliwell engaged in 'fraudulent' behaviour by not declaring almost £48m of her £66m personal fortune whilst making a prenuptial agreement, appeal judges ruled.
Simon Entwistle's 'painful' divorce from Ms Helliwell culminated with an award in his favour of just £400,000, instead of the £2.5 million he had originally claimed.
That sum was reduced to £325,000 after a deduction for Ms Helliwell's costs after a divorce judge said the three-year marriage did not entitle him to maintain a lavish lifestyle once the relationship ended.
Given that his own costs were £450,000, the award left Mr Entwistle £125,000 out of pocket - a scenario that his barrister argued would not have materialised were their roles reversed.
