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Deborah Cole in Berlin

Mystery plaintiff challenges Karl Lagerfeld’s will – but pampered cat can rest easy

Lagerfeld in sunglasses holding grey fluffy cat and kissing it on the head
Lagerfeld and Choupette in a 2017 Instagram post. Photograph: ISM/Capital Pictures

The late German-born Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld was famously precise, exacting and known to hold a grudge, but his final wishes concerning the beneficiaries of his vast fortune could now be overturned beyond the grave in a looming court battle.

Seven years after Lagerfeld’s death from cancer, an unnamed plaintiff has come forward to challenge the haute couture titan’s last will and testament.

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