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Friday, October 3, 2014

Wife bought tycoon Khoo special toilet seat so he could pass motion & work at same time - divorce court told

Wife bought tycoon Khoo special toilet seat so he could pass motion & work at same time - divorce court told
The wife of a Laura Ashley millionaire once bought him a padded toilet seat on which he sat and worked for up to four hours at a time, the High Court has heard.
The unusual detail emerged as former beauty queen Pauline Chai resumed her £400m divorce bid against Khoo Kay Peng, 75, in one of the most expensive marriage splits in British history.
Ms Chai gave a wide-ranging account of their life as she tried to persuade London's High Court, instead of a judge in the estranged couple's native Malaysia, to rule in the divorce.
Despite consisting of little more than 'skirmishes' the case has already racked up legal bills of £2million, described as 'eye-watering' by a High Court judge.
Dr Khoo and Ms Chai, who is in her 60s and lives on an estate with pet alpacas in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, have five grown-up children and were married for more than 40 years.
Unusual claim: Former beauty queen Pauline Chai, pictured feeding pet alpacas on her Hertfordshire estate, told a divorce judge she had bought her husband a padded toilet seat so he could work in the lavatory
Unusual claim: Former beauty queen Pauline Chai, pictured feeding pet alpacas on her Hertfordshire estate, told a divorce judge she had bought her husband a padded toilet seat so he could work in the lavatory
She claims her husband - who the court heard owns a 'chunk' of the textiles giant Laura Ashley - is worth more than £400m and she should receive a nine-figure sum.
Ms Chai, who was crowned Miss Malaysia in 1969, opened a rare window on the couple's private life yesterday as she gave evidence to the High Court.
The court was told Khoo Kay Peng (pictured) owned a 'chunk' of Laura Ashley and had £50m of property
The court was told Khoo Kay Peng (pictured) owned a 'chunk' of Laura Ashley and had £50m of property
She said she bought her husband, from whom she split in 2013, a padded toilet seat because he had backache after spending 'hours' reading and working while sitting in the lavatory.
Ms Chai told Mr Justice Bodey: 'He will sit on the toilet for four hours and read and do his work... And he got backache there, so I got the idea of the padded toilet seat.'
Among the claims made in court yesterday were that her husband was investigated by a 'corruption agency' in Singapore 25 years ago. The claim was denied by Dr Khoo's lawyer.
She told Mr Justice Bodey the family had been living in Perth, Australia, at the time and they uprooted and moved to Canada.
Ms Chai did not give detail of the investigation - which she said took place in the late 1980s - but said two of her estranged husband's friends had been jailed.
'He was being investigated,' she said. 'There was a lot of panic. He was frightened.
'There was a lot of discussion about moving out of Perth to a country which has no extradition treaty with Singapore.'
She added: 'A short while later the family just flew to Victoria (Canada) and we stayed there.
'I know he didn't leave Canada ... for a long time. He avoided Singapore for five years.'
Dr Khoo was not in court and has yet to give evidence - but a lawyer representing him told the court: 'I suggest that is completely false. Dr Khoo was not personally investigated.'
Ms Chai also said her family left Australia in the late 1980s after one of her children was 'beaten up' during an attack which had a 'racial undertone'.
She said she had took the children out of a Perth boarding school, where they had been placed after the family moved from Malaysia.
Beauty queen: Ms Chai was named Miss Malaysia in 1969 and has since lived in Australia, Canada and the UK
Beauty queen: Ms Chai was named Miss Malaysia in 1969 and has since lived in Australia, Canada and the UK
'I believe there was a white policy in Australia in the seventies and they had just got rid of that policy,' she told the judge. 'But in fact it still remained and there was this racial undertone.
'Because of that one of the boys was just beaten up by about ten other boys after being called racial names.
'We decided to take the children out of the boarding school.'
Mr Justice Bodey is expected to rule at the end of the current round of hearings on where the case will be held.
Ms Chai said she would be at a 'huge disadvantage' if she had to fight in Malaysia.
Richard Todd QC, for Ms Chai, said she lived on a 'beautiful English estate', had a taste for English TV shows and valued what was 'quintessentially' English.
Battle: Despite consisting only of 'skirmishes' the battle at the High Court (pictured) has already cost £2m
Battle: Despite consisting only of 'skirmishes' the battle at the High Court (pictured) has already cost £2m
He told Mr Justice Bodey that she was fulfilling a 'legitimate desire to be here'.
At an earlier hearing Mr Justice Holman said Dr Khoo owned a 'chunk' of Laura Ashley and had properties in England and Malaysia worth more than £50million.
He said that, on any 'feasible' view, Ms Chai would get tens of millions of pounds for the part she had played in their 42-year 'matrimonial partnership'. The hearing continues today. -Malay Mail

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