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SHAMED cricket tycoon Sir Allen Stanford can today be exposed as a love cheat who planned to commit BIGAMY with a secret British girlfriend.
The News of the World can reveal that the Texan billionaire-accused of a £6.5 billion fraud in the US-repeatedly applied for a licence to wed Louise Sage.
But he was still legally married to Susan Stanford, his American wife of 34 years, when he proposed THREE TIMES to Louise-the woman with whom he has two children.
It means he would have commited bigamy if the wedding had gone ahead.
Yesterday her mother Carol told us exclusively: "I said that to Louise and her only comment was, 'We didn't know at the time.' It's not for me to say any more than that."
Asked about other mistresses and his current lover Andrea Stoelker, 30, Carol, who lives near Bromley, Kent, said: "There's been a lot. She's not an isolated one."
Official court records reveal Stanford, 58-who also faces an FBI quiz over alleged links to Mexican drug barons-applied for a marriage licence in Miami on August 29, 2002.
He applied again five months later, on January 14, 2003. And yesterday, Carol revealed he had proposed a THIRD time to mistress Louise, with whom he has children Ross, 13, and Allena, 11.
But he was still married to Susan, 56, at the time -although they have lived apart for ten years and are now divorcing.
Stanford planned bigamist wedding to secret Brit love
Stanford didn't go through with the wedding plans but the applications remain on file at a Miami county court.
When asked about them, Stanford's divorce lawyer Bucky Allshouse said last night: "That's news to me."
Louise, 42, who is originally from Dartford, Kent, started out as an entrepreneur, setting up a company called LCS Development Limited with her mother and sister, Samantha Cannon, which has since been dissolved.
She took her lover's last name-calling herself Louise Sage Stanford-but went through a bitter split with him in 2004.
However, she still enjoys a lavish lifestyle in Miami, Florida, where she lives in a £4.5 million waterfront house and receives an £18,000-a -month allowance from him.
But that is now in jeopardy after US authorities froze Stanford's bank accounts and seized all his assets-including private jets, his 120ft yacht, and homes in Florida, Texas and the Caribbean-as he is investigated for alleged fraud.
Carol added: "It's been a shock to us all. Louise loved Allen and is completely loyal to him-even though he let her down so many times." Yesterday, Louise's lawyer Tony Sabbatino said: "She has no comment on Sir Allen."
He proposed three times but was still wed to first wife
But we can reveal the exclusive life she has enjoyed after her love affair with America's 205th richest man.
Court documents from her 2007 paternity hearing with Stanford to secure her two children's lifestyle reveal the staggering amount he lavished on his family.
Although the out-of-court settlement terms were kept secret, papers filed at the 11th Circuit Court in Miami detail her children's privileged upbringing.
Stanford paid their £30,000-a-year school fees, put £750,000 away in trust funds for both children, let them have a chauffeur on call 24 hours a day, and spent more than £50,000 on gifts and holidays.
Louise was also paid £600,000 a year living expenses plus an £18,000-a-month allowance - picking up £816,000 a year.
His £18k-a-month payments for two kids now in peril
In 2007, Stanford-who has a total of six children-was ordered to pay wife Susan £75,000 a month and allow use of his jets, yacht and estate in Antigua.
As part of a pre- divorce settlement she got a £1.75 million mansion and a £750,000 apartment. Their daughter Randi, 26, was given a lavish apartment in Houston.
Stanford is now dating Andrea Stoelker who was president of the Twenty20 cricketing board of directors which helped set up the now-scrapped deal with English cricket.
Source: News of the world |
