A 20-year brotherly brawl in a California courtroom has ended with one of five siblings having to pay $7 billion to the other four of misappropriating the family s money and real estate assets.
Five brothers, sons of a diamond merchant hailing from the Indian state of Gujarat, whose ages now range from the 50s to 70s, have been in dispute for more than two decades over an alleged oral partnership that claims part-ownership for each brother in the real estate fortune of lone defendant Haresh Jogani.