The luxury South African hotel at centre of dispute
ITS rooms look out onto the world-famous Table Mountain and Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner for 18 years.
Its Camelot spa offers holistic treatments including aromatherapy, ‘corrective anti-fattening wrap’ and a patented face mask with 63 marine ingredients.
And the Lagoon Beach Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, also includes the La Miza beach bar, which offers cocktails from around the world, while its private apartments deliver self-catering luxury.
The Irish High Court yesterday ruled Gayle Killilea must answer questions about who owns this hotel and a range of other properties allegedly transferred to her by Seán Dunne, her bankrupt developer husband. The bankruptcy assignee, Chris Lehane, previously went to court in South Africa and successfully prevented the sale of the hotel. Ms Killilea had planned to sell it to buy other property in the UK, he told the South African court.
The Irish High Court has now ruled that Ms Killilea must answer questions about a February 2008 agreement under which Mr Dunne allegedly transferred the Lagoon Beach Hotel to her, along with other assets. She has strongly denied all the claims.
She previously told the High Court that the courts in the US, where she and her husband had temporarily lived, should deal with the case, as Mr Dunne had declared bankruptcy in America.
She had also claimed that it was an ‘abuse of process’ for Mr Lehane to be investigating the transfers.
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