Betrayal of a Trophy Wife ; Valerie Kimber Dated Rock Stars Before Devoting Her Life to a Stockbroker. For the Last 15 Years of Their Marriage He Refused to Sleep with Her. Today, They're Divorced, and He's Absconded with Their Fortune . . .

Daily Mail › July 18, 2006

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FOR 28 years Valerie Kimber belonged to that increasingly rare and, in these days of sexual equality, disappearing breed - the trophy wife.

It was a role she likes to think she performed par excellence.

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Betrayal of a Trophy Wife ; Valerie Kimber Dated Rock Stars Before Devoting Her Life to a Stockbroker. For the Last 15 Years of Their Marriage He Refused to Sleep with Her. Today, They're Divorced, and He's Absconded with Their Fortune . . .

When once her wealthy stockbroker husband Richard Kimber phoned to let her know, at short notice, that he would be inviting 15 friends from the golf club home to their Pounds 1million Georgian mansion in Suffolk for dinner on New Year's Eve, she didn't bat an eyelid.

An excellent cook and regarded by all their friends as a superior hostess, she was gracious and charming company, with the added bonus of being dazzling to look at, swathed in Versace frocks bought by her husband.

'Oh yes, it was a very privileged life,' says Valerie, 59, a former model and dancer who spent the Sixties socialising with Paul McCartney and his then fiancee Jane Asher, drank champagne with Mick Jagger and...

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