Investor CEO in $1.3 Billion Divorce Denies Being Married

No legal ceremony happened, Criterion Capital Ltd.’s Aziz says
Case is among the biggest to go before U.K. court, lawyers say

Asif Aziz
Photographer: Lauren Hurley/PA via AP Photo

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By Kaye Wiggins

October 5, 2017 at 10:41 AM UTC

Updated on

October 5, 2017 at 2:39 PM UTC

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A U.K. investment executive is fighting to keep the bulk of his 1.1 billion pound ($1.3 billion) fortune in a divorce case that will turn on whether he was really married.

Asif Aziz, founder and chief executive officer of the real estate investment company Criterion Capital Ltd., says he was never married to Tagilde Aziz under English law, in a case that lawyers say is one of the largest divorce cases ever in a U.K. court.