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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Richard Gittins

Sheikh and wife face losing £8.3million mansion in London 'billionaires' row' after failed 'Islamic custom' claim

Billionaire businessman Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and his wife - (Champion News)

A multi-billionaire sheikh and his wife face losing their £8.3million London home in Britain's most expensive street, after being beaten in a High Court fight to prove it belongs to her.

Makiyah Al Jaber and billionaire Saudi-born businessman Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber claimed that according to an Islamic custom - which dictates that a husband must provide a house for his wife which is then owned by her - their family home in Winnington Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb, was her property.

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