It's a nasty divorce that has already led to the liquidation of one pub and two fox terriers. Now it's threatening a wealthy Sydney woman's luxury waterfront penthouse and potentially a lot more.
The ex-wife and the current partner of former multimillionaire hotelier Les Young live in very different circumstances.
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Nasty Sydney divorce takes it toll
A bitter 10-year divorce battle between a multimillionaire and his ex-wife has taken an immense emotional toll on Joanne Young, as she explained to Channel Seven in 2013.
Former wife Joanne lives in a Campbelltown housing commission block. She was Mr Young's second wife.
His current partner, Josephine Smith, lives in a three-level Pyrmont penthouse.
After 10 years and a tortuous legal battle dragging through the NSW courts, these fortunes could reverse.
Joanne Young has been battling for years to secure a $3 million settlement from her former husband. So far she hasn't got a cent.
On Tuesday, Smith was found guilty of contempt of court for failing to respect a court order preventing her from using assets transferred to her by Mr Young.
Mr Young separated from his second wife years ago. But the split became truly acrimonious in 2006, when he kicked her out of the Wiley Park Hotel, accusing her of stealing.
The hotel was jointly owned but only she lived there and was the manager.
To add injury to insult, Mr Young also ordered her two terriers, Fluffy and Molly, be put down.
But the stealing allegation was found to be malicious.
In 2013, a court ordered Mr Young to pay his former wife $2.7 million, including $165,000 in damages after he was found to have deceived police for levelling the stealing claim against her.
At the time, Mr Young's assets were found to have been worth $9 million.
Five months later, Mr Young transferred the entire $5 million Pyrmont apartment to Ms Smith. His remaining share was sold to her for $1.8 million.
The next year, Mr Young went bankrupt, owing Ms Smith $4 million. The details of this debt are not known.
A court then froze Ms Smith's assets.
But Ms Smith, through a company, secured a large loan against the Pyrmont penthouse and used it to buy a new hotel, the Lucky Australian in St Marys.
A Judge earlier found that Ms Smith did not tell the bank, Westpac, that the apartment was subject to a court-ordered freeze.
On Tuesday Supreme Court Justice Stephen Rothman found it was "inconceivable in the circumstances [that Ms Smith] was unaware" of the order restraining her from encumbering diminishing or disposing of assets worth more than $1000.
He found her guilty of breaching the order.
Westpac sold the Lucky Australian last month. It failed to recoup the sizeable loan.
Lawyers for Ms Young are continuing to fight for her share and other recent costs orders in her favour.
Late last month her lawyers filed an application to declare Ms Smith bankrupt, fearing there may be nothing left of her ex-husband's former assets.
Now the Pyrmont apartment is in the bank's sights.
On Friday, financier Reynolds Private Wealth made an application in the Supreme Court to have a company of which Ms Smith remains a director wound up, Smith & Young Pty Ltd.