Baroness wins case against crooked Svengali lawyer after handing him her £2m divorce payout
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Baroness who transferred savings to Svengali lawyer could lose money after he declares bankruptcy
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An aristocrat has won the first round of her High Court battle with a solicitor who she claims tricked her out of her £2m life savings - after telling the judge she has to beg, steal and borrow in order to be able to survive .
Baroness Jacqueline Van Zuylen says she was desperate and suffering sleepless nights about the whereabouts of her millions after handing them to solicitor Rodney Whiston-Dew to invest on her behalf in 2012.
Mr Whiston-Dew, 70, is currently in prison after after being jailed in 2017 for his role in a £65m tax scam, then subsequently stuck off.
Baroness van Zuylen is now suing him, demanding her money back, plus damages, while the disgraced lawyer denies any wrongdoing.