Have the super-rich ever been scarier?

Former Pirelli calendar girl Christina Estrada’s divorce battle shows just how out of touch the rich really are.

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Christina Estrada: her shopping list includes a £50,000 Xmas lunch

In these tumultuous times, one aspect of our national life remains reassuringly the same what Jan Moir in the Daily Mail calls "the unedifying spectacle of disgustingly rich people debasing themselves by trying to get even richer". The details of former Pirelli calendar girl Christina Estrada's divorce battle with her billionaire Saudi sheikh ex-husband Walid Juffali may have passed you by, but unedifying is the word. Juffali has offered Estrada £37m. What she wants is £196m.

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