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Tamara Mellon, president of the Jimmy Choo empire, yesterday told a court how her ex-husband hired a private investigation agency to hack into her computer during their acrimonious divorce.
Ms Mellon, 38, described how she received a string of suspicious emails offering assistance and claiming to have "things on your soon-to-be-ex-husband". She passed the emails to her IT chief because of their "sleazy" nature, and he told her they contained bugs which, if opened, would have recorded every key stroke on her keyboard.
(((Note: do not plant amateurish Trojans on women who have "IT Chiefs.)))
Ms Mellon told the court her ex-husband "needed a nanny" to get through life. She added that he was "totally incapable" of dealing with his finances, behaved "like a child", and could not even read a comic.
Ms Mellon said she had been reluctant to leave him alone with their four-year-old daughter, Minty, despite him being a "fantastic father," because of his absentmindedness. She said he suffered from manic depression and severe insomnia.
The businesswoman added that her former husband was also "happy, playful, excitable and very sweet" and remained her "best friend".
Mr Mellon is allegedly one of several wealthy people - many of them in the middle of divorce proceedings - to have used the private investigation agency AIS for phone tapping and computer hacking. It has been alleged that the company was also employed to secure advantage during business disagreements, to spy on rivals, and, on one occasion, to undermine local authority opposition to a waste management company.
In evidence, Ms Mellon told the court she had met her ex-husband at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. They started a relationship in 1998 and married at Blenheim Palace a year later.
(((There are those among us who think that the rich don't have problems.)))
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