Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One chief executive, has revealed that his ex-wife spent more than £12 million on their youngest daughter’s wedding without telling him.

<p><div class="storyHead" style="color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><h2 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; color: #404040; font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px;"></h2></div><div class="oneHalf gutter" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left; width: 460px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="story" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #666666; padding-top: 3px;"><div id="storyEmbSlide" style="color: #282828; font-size: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div class="slideshow ssMain" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; padding-bottom: 3px;"><div class="nextPrevLayer" style="height: 319px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="ssImg" style="padding: 0px;"><img alt="Eccleston's ex wife spent £12 million on daughter's wedding" height="287" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02052/ecclestone-620_2052562c.jpg" style="display: block; border: 0px initial initial;" width="460" /><div class="artImageExtras" style="font-family: arial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div class="ingCaptionCredit" style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="caption" style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">Bernie Ecclestone and ex-wife Slavica (left) and Petra with her new husband art dealer James Stunt</span> <span class="credit" style="color: #999999; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.38em;">Photo: REX FEATURES</span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="mainBodyArea" style="color: #282828; font-size: 10px;"><div class="firstPar"><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px;">Mr Ecclestone, who is estimated to be worth about £2.5billion, gave a rare insight into his family’s billionaire lifestyle when he told a German court of the wedding bill.</p></div><div class="secondPar"><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px;">He explained that he had no idea what the cost was be until after his daughter Petra’s wedding because he had argued with his former wife Slavica Ecclestone over the cost shortly before the ceremony.</p></div><div class="thirdPar"><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px;">He said although he had offered, as the father of the bride, to pay, he had fallen out with Mrs Ecclestone over the proposed cost of the drinks, which are said to have included Chateau Petrus wine at £4,000 a bottle.</p></div><div class="fourthPar"><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px;">As a result, his ex-wife, who with a fortune of £750 million is one of the country’s wealthiest millionaires as the result of a divorce, ran up the huge bill without telling him.</p></div><div class="fifthPar"><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin: 0px;">Mr Ecclestone was giving evidence at the trial of Germany’s biggest post-war fraud trial against a German banker.</p></div></div></div></div></p>

Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One chief executive, has revealed that his ex-wife spent more than £12 million on their youngest daughter’s wedding without telling him.

Bernie Ecclestone and ex-wife Slavica (left) and Petra with her new husband art dealer James Stunt   Photo: REX FEATURES Mr Ecclestone, who ...

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