In the end she was done in by spite, and greed.
She is the ex-wife of a wealthy Quebec businessman who had sought to maintain an exceptionally privileged and luxurious lifestyle, and fought tooth and nail. She hired and fired more than half a dozen lawyers all the while waging a relentless, and ultimately, vain legal battle to find hidden assets ostensibly stashed away by her husband. She frittered away about $4 million in legal and expert expenses, only for the case to be heard ex parte. She did not show up at trial nor was she was she represented by a lawyer.
“The execution of said conclusion would put an end to a battle which lasted almost six years,” said the judge in language that would do proud to legalese aficionados. “It is time for the parties to go on with their separate lives,” the judge added more plainly.