Judge orders ‘unprincipled rogue’ businessman to pay ex-wife £17 million
Weddings can be expensive, but it’s divorce that really burns a whole in your wallet. One person who knows this to be true is French businessman Didier Thiry who was ordered by a judge to pay his ex-wife £17 million recently. Family court judge Sir Peter Singer said Mr Thiry had shown a ‘sadistic side to his personality’ since his split from former model Alisa Thiry. Mrs Thiry took legal action after complaining that her ex-husband had refused to honour the terms of their pre-nuptial agreement. He also failed to repay a £13.8 million loan she had made to one of his companies, she claimed. The judge said the sum he had awarded to the 50-year-old could be described as ‘restorative justice’. Sir Peter said Mr Thiry, 53, had not appeared at the hearings but he had read a ‘good deal that emanates from him’. He concluded that he was ‘an unprincipled rogue who has acted in financially predatory fashion to prey on his wife for his own profit and to her substantial detriment’. The busi...