She's the Goldman Sachs Pa Who Stole [Pounds]4m From Her Bosses (Who Didn't Even Notice), Spending It On 11 Houses, a Villa in Cyprus, Cartier Jewels ... And Luxury Holidays and Flying Lessons for Her Husband. And Guess What, He Didn't Notice Anything Wrong Either

Daily Mail › July 02, 2008

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TONY DE-LAUREY says he is an old-fashioned bloke, the sort who would consider it bad manners to go rummaging round a lady's handbag, even if that lady is his wife.

'Even if a woman asks me to get the car keys out of her bag, I won't. I'll bring the bag to her and let her get them.' It's the same with mail, he says. 'I wouldn't dream of opening it. Or going into my wife's wardrobe. It's the way I was raised.' And so it was with his ex, the second Mrs De-Laurey. He never as much as peeked in her (overflowing) wardrobe either, he tells me, although he can't resist the jibe, 'mainly in case something bit me'.

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She's the Goldman Sachs Pa Who Stole [Pounds]4m From Her Bosses (Who Didn't Even Notice), Spending It On 11 Houses, a Villa in Cyprus, Cartier Jewels ... And Luxury Holidays and Flying Lessons for Her Husband. And Guess What, He Didn't Notice Anything Wrong Either

Of course, it might have been better for all concerned if Tony had been brave enough to poke a nose between all those sequinned frocks. His ex-wife, of course, is the infamous Joyti De-Laurey, the former Goldman Sachs PA who managed to steal [pounds]4.3million from her bosses before they noticed.

Three hundred thousand pounds of that money went on Cartier jewels, some of which were stashed, in box after velvet-lined box, at the back of the wardrobe Tony never went near. Then there was the [pounds]750,000 villa in Cyprus as well as 11 other properties.

To this day, he (laughingly, some might say) maintains that he knew nothing of them -- never mind the other outrageously lavish evidence of her epic spending sprees: cars, a...

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