In the on-going South African legal feud between “wealthy Knysna socialite” Lesley Young and her former surfer boyfriend Ian Macdonald it appears that the surfer has ridden one wave to the beach. Macdonald, who co-founded the world famous Durban 500 surf contest in 1969, has won a defamation case again Young who “falsely accused him of poisoning her.”
After a seven-year romantic stint with her surfing beau, Lesley Young, a breeder of Arabian horses and widow of an apartheid-era homeland minister, must now pay Ian McDonald R160000 [$16,000], and legal and other costs.
But that’s not the half of it. Macdonald, whom Young dumped in May for 2006, is still suing Young for half of her R30 million [$3 million] estate and in another case has made a R280000 [$28,000] claim that Young has “wrongfully and maliciously … launching a false and unfounded application for a protection order … against him.” Which reminds us: money and power causes brain damage.
[Link: Dispatch Online]
