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The top silk in the court fight between Gina Rinehart’s company and a family that is trying to claim billions of dollars in mining revenue is earning about $35,000 a day. And that’s just the start.
children are suing her. i can t think of any other case in recent australian corporate history where a child has sued a parent. reporter: in court documents rinehart characterizes her three oldest kids as slackers. manifestly unsuitable to manage the trust fund set up by their grandfather. i am not pleased to stand by and see this family torn apart because of the terms of jock s will. reporter: the fortune the rinehart kids were expecting to inherit last year is conservatively valued at $2.4 billion. postponed until 2068. the youngest of the three kids, 26-year-old hope rinehart welker of new york city, would be 83 years old by then. she and her two older siblings are suing to remove their mom as trustee, calling her deceptive, manipulative, hopelessly conflicted, and disgraceful. i ve put up with all the wheeling and dealing and backstabbing that i m going to. reporter: but gina rinehart s youngest daughter is standing by her, calling the case a destructive display of g