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<\/p>\nA three-year legal battle over the multimillion-pound estate of a \u201ccar boot king\u201d who fathered 19 children and married his cleaner has gone before a High Court judge. <\/p>\n
Richard Scott died aged 81 in 2018 after making a fortune running Britain\u2019s second-biggest boot fair, which was featured in Car Boot Challenge on ITV, from his Cheshire farm.<\/p>\n
Scott was described at a hearing in London as \u201cmercurial\u201d and a \u201cruthless, single-minded and highly successful businessman who built up a valuable property empire\u201d before switching to running large and lucrative car boot sales.<\/p>\n
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Richard Scott remarried in 2016<\/p>\n
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He was said to have fathered six children with his first wife, seven with his second and six outside of his marriages. <\/p>\n
Adam, 62, the millionaire\u2019s eldest and \u201cfavourite\u201d son, has claimed that he sacrificed his life to work on the farm from the age of nine and that his father had promised he would inherit the business.<\/p>\n
However, after the death of Adam\u2019s mother, his father remarried in 2016, setting up home with his former cleaner, Jennifer, who was 28 years his junior.<\/p>\n
The stepmother, who is younger than Adam, is accused of wresting control of her husband\u2019s property and having his son disinherited.<\/p>\n
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Jennifer Scott says that Adam was disinherited from his father\u2019s will after their relationship \u201ccompletely broke down\u201d<\/p>\n
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Adam challenged her in the High Court in 2022 and a full trial of the dispute has come before Mr Justice Richards, who heard the son claim that his father was not mentally capable when he signed his two final wills.<\/p>\n
According to Adam, his father told him that he would take over the farm after his death, and that he had committed to \u201ca life of hard and unrelenting physical work\u201d on the back of those promises.<\/p>\n
However, lawyers for his stepmother, 60, who is executor of the estate, have claimed that the millionaire was fully aware of his actions when he disinherited Adam after their relationship \u201ccompletely broke down\u201d.<\/p>\n
The lawyers told the court that Adam had no claim on the estate on the basis of the alleged promises because he had already been handed \u00a310 million in property before his father\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
The judge heard that the businessman and his second wife started a relationship in 1994 but did not marry until 2016, two years before his death. Adam had attempted to prevent the wedding, claiming that his father did not have the mental capacity to wed.<\/p>\n