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She\u2019s also startled by Mr. Akhmedov\u2019s campaign to keep her from pocketing one cent of his $1.4 billion fortune, most of which he earned selling his stake in a Siberian energy company called Northgas. Contrary to popular assumptions, she said, she needs the money. She is living off a lump sum provided to her by Burford Capital, a litigation finance firm, which is helping to fund the legal efforts and will take a percentage of any results.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to play the victim, because it\u2019s not my nature,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I have to defend myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Akhmedova said she had always wanted to settle out of court, quietly and for far less than she was awarded. She still speaks fondly of the years she spent with her ex-husband, whom she says she met in Moscow in 1989, when she was 17. He was nearly twice her age.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was wearing a suit,\u201d she said. \u201cHe struck me as a very proper gentleman.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two married in 1993 and moved to London. He started off in the fur business, selling sable skins on the London Commodity Exchange. He later pivoted to the natural gas sector and, in 2012, sold his 49 percent stake in Northgas for a reported $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n

Over the years, he acquired a summer house in the south of France, two helicopters, vintage cars, fine art \u2014 by Rothko, Warhol and others \u2014 and a $26 million home in an upscale county outside London.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went from flying Aeroflot to British Airways to chartered flights,\u201d said Ms. Akhmedova. Later, they flew on their own $50 million private jet.<\/p>\n

During the years that Mr. Akhmedov amassed his wealth, the couple regularly toggled between hostilities and opulent cease-fires. She said she filed for divorce a second time in 2013 \u2014 she had rescinded the first petition a decade earlier \u2014 when one of her ex-husband\u2019s paramours gave birth to a child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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She\u2019s also startled by Mr. Akhmedov\u2019s campaign to keep her from pocketing one cent of his $1.4 billion fortune, most of which he earned selling his stake in a Siberian energy company called Northgas. Contrary to popular assumptions, she said, she needs the money. She is living off a lump sum provided to her by … <\/p>\n

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