Daddy’s little rich kid apparently never learned to pay his bills.
Fledgling movie producer David Mimran, son of sugar billionaire Jean-Claude Mimran, fled New York for his native Europe last year allegedly leaving a $7 million debt from a divorce settlement to his ex-wife of 20 years on top of 250,000 in unpaid rent and damages for a SoHo loft.
David, 46, is the favored, eldest son of Jean-Claude, who is worth over $2 billion, largely from his ownership of West Africa’s largest sugar refinery. Jean-Claude, who used to own Lamborghini, recently opened a super-luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, dubbed the Billionaire’s Playground, called Alpina Gstaad.
David’s post-nuptial agreement gives first wife Lucy half of their marital property, according to legal documents. Manhattan resident Lucy, 41, is a retired fashion model who met David in Puerto Rico when she was only 18. She had three boys with the Sugar King scion.
The $7.4 million divorce settlement includes proceeds from the sale of a $23 million yacht called “Malibu,” a $25 million Central Park West apartment designed by Philippe Stark and investments in a Cayman Islands company.
Jean-Claude and David’s grandmother supported the ne’er-do-well son’s extravagant lifestyle with over $30 million in loans and gifts until grandma passed away and dad cut him off in 2010, court papers say. David left behind a series of failed business ventures funded by his family’s largess. Now he’s scraping by on loans from his new wife, Victoria’s Secret model Julie Ordon, and family friends, according to court documents.
David and his second wife were sued last week by the landlord of their luxury loft for allegedly skipping out on three installments of the $32,000 a month rent and wrecking antique furnishings in the home including a ripped and stained $18,000 hand-loomed Nepalese rug.
David has claimed poverty to a Manhattan divorce judge, who nevertheless ordered that he pay his long-time spouse $12,000 in child support, $10,000 in alimony and a $3.7 million settlement. But Lucy appealed and won a $7.4 million judgment from a higher court in March. David has only paid $400,000.
While David was apparently broke he lavished gifts on Ordon including a $30,000 Rolex and a $20,000 Chanel bag, the Manhattan lawsuit says.
His own expenses filed were the court were eye-popping—from $51,500 a month for vacations to $320,000 for a suite at Giants Stadium. David “continues to live a wildly extravagant lifestyle with his new family that does not reflect a diminished access to funds,” Manhattan Justice Saralee Evans wrote in the Mimran’s divorce decision.
Lucy plans to pursue David overseas for the payment.
After fighting for 50-50 custody, David left behind his three sons—ages 20, 17, 16 in New York—when he moved to Switzerland with Ordon and their baby daughter.
In a telephone interview from Europe last week Ordon told the Post she left Manhattan for her native Switerzland because she wanted her kids to grow up skiing in the winter and lounging lakeside in the summer.
David’s attorney Bernard Clair, who recently repped Lauren Silverman in her divorce following her affair with “X Factor” star Simon Cowell, told the Post that Lucy is also in debt to her ex.
“Ms. Mimran is under an obligation to cooperate in selling approximately $5 million worth of jewelry, fine art and furniture which she has refused to do,” Clair said. “It appears that she has independently sold some of that property and has failed to account to the proceeds she has received.”
A source close to Lucy said that David’s value of the shared property is inflated and the goods are worth no more than $600,000. The source called the excuse for nonpayment “lame.”
Lucy and her attorney, William Beslow, declined to comment.