The settlement could become the most expensive in legal history as a large portion of the racing boss’s money was transferred to offshore accounts in his wife’s name.
Mrs Ecclestone, 50, was granted a decree nisi in a 58-second hearing in the High Court Family Division on the grounds that the 24-year marriage had “irretrievably” broken down because of her 78-year-old husband’s “unreasonable behaviour.”
Judge Berry held that he “has behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with” him. In court papers Mrs Ecclestone claimed that her husband’s behaviour “has caused me stress and anxiety”.
The couple who married at Kensington and Chelsea Register Office in July 1985 have two daughters Tamara, 24, and Petra, 19. They have a jet and a yacht named after their daughters. Mrs Ecclestone left the family home, while her husband was attending the Brazilian Grand Prix last year. She decided to wait until their daughters had left home.
Neither Ecclestone or Slavica attended the 58-second proceedings.
Meanwhile, a City investor tried to get a £9.5million divorce payout cut yesterday after the value of his shares fortune fell 90 per cent.
Brian Myerson had kept £14.5million but now faces being £500,000 in DEBT if he pays a final £2.5million to ex-wife Ingrid.
The Court of Appeal judge said it was a “rum deal” and reserved judgment.
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