THE ex-wife of billionaire Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is suing her former PA – claiming she cost her at least £19 MILLION.
Furious Irina Abramovich, 49, says she was forced to sack her “executive manager” Cynthia Hoffmann after she “destroyed” her “trust and confidence”.
In an incredible 31-page writ, Irina accuses her one-time assistant of a string of blunders – and lifts the lid on her own lavish lifestyle for the first time.
She tells how Ms Hoffmann hired her “dangerous” boyfriend – a former African mercenary linked to the Hell’s Angels – as a bodyguard and wasted a fortune on property.
The writ says Ms Hoffmann, 54, was tasked with buying a luxury St Tropez villa – but paid a “grossly excessive” price, leaving Irina £17.3 million out of pocket.
And it claims the former PA also tried to take a kickback from the £30 million deal, while hundreds of thousands of pounds more were wasted on bungled renovations
They included a hi-tech electric anti-mosquito system that builders forgot to hook up to the mains, an electric security fence to keep wild boar out that did not work and a swimming pool that turned guests’ hair GREEN.
A garden watering system was also wrongly connected to the drinking water supply, sending utility bills soaring by an extra £66,000.
Ms Hoffmann is also alleged to have supervised £3.3 million of building work at two Paris apartments which went wrong, the writ claims.
It says one blunder left Irina, who got £155 million when she split from Roman in 2007, without a “suitable cooling system” for her “wine cave”.
Irina, a former Aeroflot air stewardess, ordered “representatives” to investigate Ms Hoffman after sacking her in September 2015.
Ms Hoffmann, who is believed to be Swiss, began working for Irina in May 2010 as a PA.
She was later promoted to “executive manager” and put in charge of Irina’s finances.
Lawyers for Irina say she has “no experience of business and limited understanding of financial and commercial matters” and has to rely “upon trusted agents to manage her substantial personal assets and financial affairs”.
