Oligarch’s wife to win huge settlement in quickie divorce

THE wife of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky won a “quickie” divorce yesterday in what lawyers speculated could be the biggest settlement in British legal history.

Second wife Galina was said to have spent only two years of the 18-year marriage with Berezovsky, whose fortune — once estimated at more than £1 billion (€1.18bn) — was built up after they had separated.

It has been reported that the exiled businessman, who did not contest the case at the High Court, was expected to pay his second wife up to £100 million, more than double the previous record of £48 million.