New York Post

World’s most expensive divorce

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TRACEY Hejailan-Amon, the socialite who allegedly took a blowtorch to her husband Mau

rice Alain Amon’s safe, ruining his priceless art collection, has been awarded $122,858 a month in spousal support in their divorce, plus a lumpsum payment of $1,262,121 — but she still insists that isn’t enough to support her lifestyle.

A Monaco court awarded Tracey 100,000 euros in monthly interim support, plus a back payment of 1,027,301 euros, as she continues to battle with her estranged husband, the 64-year-old heir to a Swiss currency printing fortune. His family supplies the ink for bank notes for many countries, including the US. Yes, they literally print money.

Things got off to a fiery start last year when Tracey lost the key to their safe in Paris and went at it with a blowtorch, allegedly leaving art worth $25 million coated in “toxic dust,” Maurice said.

The support payment was based on Tracey’s lifestyle as his wife, which included year-round private plane and yacht travel, homes in Switzerlan­d, London, Paris, Hong Kong and a $22 million Fifth Avenue apartment. But Tracey, 47, claims that isn’t enough, and she actually spends around 400,000 euros a month — that’s nearly $500,000.

Maurice — said to be worth $1.4 billion — says the payments are too large, and gripes that he gave his socialite spouse $50 million in gifts over their eight-year marriage, including two London properties, a Swiss chalet, a boat, a Ferrari and $10 million in jewelry.

They are also fighting over jurisdicti­on — he wants the divorce heard in the Monaco courts, often favorable to the wealthier spouse, while she wants the case in New York, where she’d get a larger settlement. And now her designer shoe collection has become the key focus in the fracas.

Tracey’s attorney Mark Jay Heller said that his client “maintains that she was never domiciled in Monaco ... [Maurice] contends that Tracey’s shoe collection . . . was in the Monaco home and this constitute­s proof that she was a Monaco domiciliar­y. This case is a ‘shoe-in’ for the record books in Monaco — it’s well beyond the ‘War of Roses,’ it’s the ‘War of Louboutins.’ ”

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