Wee Bernie’s marriage rumoured to be on the rocks

According to the Daily Mail, Bernie Ecclestone and statuesque wife Slavica are set to divorce after 24 years of marriage.

Slavica is reported to have moved out of the Ecclestones’ London home, because she has “grown apart” from Bernie. The Mail also claims she has already consulted a divorce lawyer.

Bernie, being Bernie, denies it all:

“The reason she has moved out is because they are doing building work next door and it is impossible to live in the house. She can’t stand the noise. I don’t know if she wants a divorce or not. She has moved into an apartment belonging to Petra’s boyfriend. We have people in the house taping the noise so we can go to the council to get something done about it.”

Hmm, hardly the most convincing excuse.

Wee Bernie must now be worried about losing a huge chunk of his £2.4bn fortune, most of which is rumoured to be in Slavica’s name.

“Nearly everything is in her [Slavica’s] name,” the Mail reports. “She is non-domiciled in Britain and therefore it made sense for tax reasons.”

[Daily Mail]