woman Justice King stated in her judgment made public on Thursday: "no doubt to most individuals, whether prosperous or bad, the sums obtained by the wife [in 2014] made her a rich woman.
"every little thing is, although, relative. The wife's agreement represented best a tiny proportion of the substantial wealth of this household, all of which had been collected during this very lengthy marriage."
She mentioned that considering Mrs Potanina was nevertheless in her 50s at the time, then "arguably the sum she bought would nowhere close meet her lengthy-term needs when regarded by means of reference to the culture to which she had long been accustomed".
Mrs Potanina, who made London her permanent home in 2017, may well be in line for a payout of as an awful lot as £10 billion if she wins the divorce fight.
That sum would effectively dwarf the previous English record for a divorce contract of £453 million that a further Russian billionaire, Farkhad Akhmedov, turned into ordered to pay his ex-spouse. the world's biggest payout is the $38 billion that Jeff Bezos reportedly paid to his ex-wife MacKenzie.
The court heard that Mr Potanin and Mrs Potanina have been childhood sweethearts who met as teens and married of their fatherland in 1983 when both have been in their early 20s. The couple, who have three babies together, all started married existence impoverished however, in her ruling, girl Justice King noted that Mr Potanin "collected vast wealth" within the Nineties on the fall of communism.
Mr Potanin, based on Forbes, is value simply under £20 billion having made his fortune acquiring a stake in Norilsk Nickel, the world's biggest producer of sophisticated nickel, all over Russia's privatisation in 1995. He at the moment owns a bit over a 3rd of the enterprise, in line with Forbes, in addition to different property. Mr Portanin reportedly owns three luxury yachts and spent $10 million on his daughter's wedding within the south of France. he is described as an "ice hockey chum" of President Putin.
The Potanins' lengthy marriage faltered with Mr Potanin claiming the couple separated in 2007 despite the fact Mrs Potanina insists they didn't cut up up except 2013, in which time "unbeknown to her", Mr Potanin had a child with one other girl – now his 2d wife. Mrs Potanina pointed out her husband's announcement that the wedding became over was a "devastating bolt abruptly" and resulted in a Russian divorce in 2014 and an additional "blizzard of litigation".
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