SHE’S the self-made multi-millionaire who went from being “as poor as a church mouse” to the most expensive divorce lawyer in London. Ayesha Vardag, known as the ‘Diva of Divorce’, charges clients …
She admits she found it “incredibly dull” but graduated and after a short stint as a TV researcher at the BBC, landed a scholarship to study a masters in EuropeanAyesha intended to return to the UK to become a journalist but admits she lost her nerve after the recession hit in the 90s.
“I needed to go out and make a bit more bacon,” she says. “I wanted to start my own firm but it was really nervewracking and I didn’t have a name in family law.song What You Waiting For?, which is about getting up off your ass and not making excuses., which had the whole thing of, if you build it, the people will come. Both of them seemed like a sign to me.”Ayesha launched Vardags in 2005 from her home, which she shared with lodgers to cover the rent and regularly slept on the sofa.
She also worked for beauty queen Pauline Chai, who was awarded a £64m divorce settlement - one of the largest ever recorded - in 2017. Ayesha explains that some clients try to go through arbitration to “avoid going to court”, which she has done “for some members of royal families” so they can keep details “completely confidential”.
She said: “Sometimes they think they can get away with hiding all sorts of things, you have to find the little leads and look at all the information.
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