Saatchi: Nigella allowed PAs to spend our money

Charles Saatchi referred to his former wife, Nigella Lawson, as “Higella” and accused her of being so off her head on drugs that she allowed their personal assistants to spend the couple’s money on whatever they liked, a court heard.

Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo are due to go on trial accused of committing fraud while they worked as PAs to the celebrity couple.

Yesterday, ahead of the case being heard at Isleworth Crown Court in west London, Judge Robin Johnson read out an email sent from Saatchi to Lawson following their divorce earlier this year.