Man splashed out on wedding while owing ex-wife £2m

A FINANCIAL adviser who spent £80,000 on a lavish, two-part wedding in England and at a luxury hotel in Morocco could be jailed after his ex-wife complained that he still owed her more than £2 million from a divorce settlement, a court heard.

Grant Rogan, the founder of Blenheim Capital Group, had agreed to pay Sarah Rogan, who was his second wife, £5million in instalments in 2014.

The judge in the Family Division of the High Court in London said Mr Rogan had also agreed to pay £8,000 a month alimony pending the full payment of the £5million. He said Mr Rogan owed more than £2million in total.

Ms Rogan says Mr Rogan, who married his third wife in March, spent around £30,000 on his English wedding and around £50,000 on a followup celebration in Morocco when the amounts he owed her were rising.

James Ewins QC, who leads Ms Rogan’s legal team, produced an itemised list showing that more than £1,000 had been spent on flights, more than £500 on Jimmy Choo shoes, more than £4,000 on a “De Beers diamond”, more than £10,000 on “clothing, beauty etc”, more than £4,000 on a wedding video, more than £1,700 on wedding flowers, more than £4,600 on a wedding video and nearly £1,500 on a “honeymoon hotel” in Morocco.

Mr Justice Holman said: “On the face of it, it is very contumelious: to fail to pay wife number two but to go out and spend large amounts of money on wife number three.”

He said the maximum jail term which could be imposed was six weeks. He encouraged Ms and Mr Rogan to try to reach an agreement.