Raymond Tooth: London's ruthless yet charming divorce lawyer

Top divorce lawyer Raymond Tooth, renowned for landing ex-wives huge settlements, is a man in demand.

Top divorce lawyer Raymond Tooth has such a ferocious reputation in court that he is known as Jaws. Renowned for landing ex-wives including Sadie Frost and Cheryl Barrymore huge settlements, he is a man in demand. "Don't get even," runs the motto, "get Tooth.

Tooth, 68, whose uncle by marriage, Rex Harrison, was married six times ("he didn't make a great success of it"), has a lifetime of experience he has himself been through the divorce courts twice. But he seems to have broken even his own record for settlements, says The Sunday Times. It emerged last week that his client Ingrid Myerson, ex-wife of City fund manager Bryan Myerson, is now entitled to 105% of her husband's assets.

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