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Londoner’s Diary: Irina’s £25,000 ‘pacifier’ after pipe leak ruins designer jackets

ROMAN ABRAMOVICH’S ex-wife Irina gave her multi-millionaire downstairs neighbour Amanda Cronin £25,000 in cash — after her builders burst a pipe and ruined Cronin’s Fendi and Chanel jacket collection. “I was devastated, but Irina offered £25,000 to pacify me,” says ACC skincare mogul Cronin, above, adding: “The collection was worth way more than that, at least £100,000, but I didn’t want to fight her, so I accepted her offer and then decided to move out altogether to escape her builders.”

Irina, who was married to the Russian billionaire for 16 years and has five children with him, had been working on the second-floor Belgravia property above Cronin.

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