Petra ditches Stunt’s name as £16m pre-nup battle revs up
PEtrA StUnt’S husband is currently seeking to prevent the end of their sixyear marriage, but the heiress has taken steps to cut the flamboyant businessman out of her life for good.
i can reveal that former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone’s 28-year-old daughter has formally dropped Stunt’s name. She has notified Companies House that she is now called Petra Ecclestone again.
the socialite, who has three young children with Stunt, 35, (pictured together below) has also informed the registrar that her husband’s role as a director of her charitable foundation has been terminated with immediate effect.
‘their marriage is over and there’s no going back,’ one of her friends tells me.
Once, Petra had been so proud of her husband’s name that newspapers which referred to her as Ecclestone received stiffly worded letters from the couple’s expensive lawyers, insisting she should be called only Petra Stunt.
Her charity is still known as the Petra Stunt Foundation and she declined to comment yesterday on how long that would remain the case. She is seeking to enforce a £16million prenuptial agreement to limit the divorce payout to Stunt, the Central Family Court heard in July. Meanwhile, her estranged husband is trying to prevent the ending of their marriage, despite her evicting him from the family’s £66million home in Chelsea. She has also obtained a non-molestation order against him. Petra married the gold bullion trader in a £12million ceremony at an italian castle in 2011.
He has become known for travelling around the West End in a cavalcade of big, black supercars.
Petra’s father, Bernie, 86, has a fortune estimated at £2.5 billion, and she is a beneficiary of a family trust.
during one dramatic hearing, an angry Stunt allegedly made a gun gesture with his hand at Bernie, mouthed obscenities at him and even tried to punch him before storming from the court.