Tycoon wife's fury over £20m divorce sum

Judge rules that tycoon Scot Young is worth £40 million but estranged wife Michelle maintains he is worth billions and has hidden his money away

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Woman 'looked gift horse in the mouth' by rejecting £300m divorce settlement, judge suggests

By Ben Riley-Smith, and agencies

3:58PM GMT 19 Nov 2013

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The woman at the centre of a long-running divorce battle over a disputed fortune has been told by a judge she may have looked a gift horse in the mouth when turning down a £300 million settlement.

Michelle Young's search for businessman Scot Young's money was also likened to "trying to locate a submarine without sonar" by her lawyer as the case appeared once again in court.

Mr Justice Moor suggested that Mrs Young may have missed an opportunity when she rejected the £300 million offer from Mr Young four years ago.

Mr Young has told the court that the 2009 settlement suggestion was not serious and was made after he had been drinking, but Mrs Young says it indicated that her husband was wealthy.

"If it was genuine, why didn't (Mrs Young) accept it? Gift horse and mouth come to mind," the judge said.

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Baron's son 'blames BBC for divorce from presenter wife'

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A Baron's son found guilty of assaulting a policeman after rowing with his BBC presenter wife over divorce blamed her job for the breakdown in his marriage.

The Hon Edward Charles d'Olier Gibson has been ordered to wear an electronic tag for the next two months and given a curfew for his "sustained and drunken" attack on Pc Aaron Walker who was called to the family home by Tanya Beckett following a drunken argument with her husband.

BBC World Service presenter Ms Beckett, 47, claimed her husband had pulled her hair and threatened her but he was cleared of the allegation.

The son of Edward Barry Greynville Gibson, the fourth Baron Ashbourne said he had filed for divorce the moment he was allowed out of police custody the morning after his arrest.

He blamed his estranged wife’s career for many of their marital problems.

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Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Mr Gibson said: “She was very, very career focused, her career was everything to her.

“The BBC is a strange beast and, like a lot of strange beasts, it is very political, who is in, who is out.

“The BBC does look after those within it well but I think there is a lot of pressure and jostling for position and power.

“When we were first married and first going out it was fairly easy for her to take Bank Holidays and things off, then suddenly she had to do Boxing Day.

“It did make things very difficult.”

The 45-year-old heir, who is now forced to travel into the City for work each day wearing the electronic tag around his ankle, said: “It is like wearing a watch around your ankle. It is horrible, that is all I can say about it.

“Luckily it is not visible to anyone else so it is not like you have been branded.”

Mr Gibson has not spoken to Ms Beckett since their row on June 8.

He said: “Virtually the first thing I did when I got out of the police station was start looking for divorce lawyers.

“All communications since then have gone through my brother.”

The pair first met as students at Pembroke College, Oxford, but did not start going out until bumping into each other at a college reunion in 1998.

Mr Gibson described Ms Becket as “bubbly, fun, vivacious, self-assured” when he first met her.

Within a year they got engaged and were married in September 2000.

He claimed the marriage started to fall apart until shortly after his wife gave birth to their third child and they moved out of London to a farmhouse in Lewknor, Oxfordshire, three years ago.

He said his wife’s strange working hours meant the couple hardly saw each other during the week.

“It coincided with a stressful period at work,” he said. “That didn’t help."

Mr Gibson said he had been forced to make a number of career and lifestyle sacrifices for his wife during their 13 year marriage.

He claimed he was forced to quit his job presenting a show on LBC Radio in London to move to New York for three years when Ms Beckett was offered a BBC role there.

“She was offered a position by the BBC out there and I basically followed,” he said.

“I gave up a good job in the UK to go there.

“I’m a bit bitter about the way we went to America, at the time we were both doing jobs which required us to get up very early.

District Judge Tim Pattinson at Oxford Magistrates Court ordered Mr Gibson to be at his London flat between the hours 9.30pm and 5am, Sunday to Friday leaving Saturday free for him to go and see his children.

The Daily Telegraph contacted Ms Beckett and was told she did not wish to comment.

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Baron's son assaulted policeman after divorce row with wife

By Ben Riley-Smith, and agencies

4:10PM GMT 12 Nov 2013

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A Baron's son has been given a curfew for attacking a policeman after rowing with his wife over divorce and a potential move to New York.

The Hon. Edward Charles d'Olier Gibson told BBC presenter Tanya Beckett she should go to America and leave him and the children to "get on with the rest of our lives".

A discussion about the couple's marriage over a bottle of wine had turned sour, prompting Gibson storm out of the house and spend one-and-a-half hours drinking at the local pub.

Before heading off Gibson urged his wife to move back into the marital bed, before adding: "Don't worry, I won't touch you because if I did it would make me want to vomit."

It was only when he returned to the house that Gibson got into a tussle with a policeman who was called following the dispute.

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