After Arun, Nayar Sr seeks divorce

Swati Deshpande, TNN Jul 23, 2011, 01.14am IST

MUMBAI: Arun Nayar's divorce from British celebrity Elizabeth Hurley, which was granted last month in June barely five years after their grand wedding in Rajasthan, became fodder for tabloids in the UK. Now, his father, business magnate Vinod Nayar, 70, has moved a family court in Mumbai and filed a divorce petition against his second wife Joan—a 60-year-old Manglorean who is a British citizen.

Arun had turned to the same family court when he had filed for divorce against his first wife Italian model Valentina Pedroni six years ago on the grounds of 'cruelty'. The senior Nayar, too, has cited 'cruelty' and 'abandonment' in his divorce petition. On the other hand, Joan has sought for police protection against her husband, Rs 15 crore damages and her right to reside in the couple's sprawling south Mumbai residence in Marine Drive.

That the couple's seven-year-old marriage — they tied the knot in 2004 — has hit rocky ground is evident in the vitriolic attacks they have made against each other in their petitions, with even their son's former wife Liz being mentioned a couple of times.

Vinod's petition claims that his wife was "rude to his good friends and tried to distance him from them, with a long term view to get as much as possible before and after his death." He accuses her of getting the police home to "humiliate" him on "domestic violence complaints" just because he slept in "the study" one time.

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