As creditors rifle through former Billabong CEO Matthew Perrin’s estate his wife Nicole Perrin is now claiming that she didn’t sign several documents and that they must have been forged, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Mrs Perrin made the claim in a restraining order she has sought to stop the bank repossessing her $15 million Surfers Paradise mansion. The bank is trying to recoup $13.5 million Mr Perrin borrowed against the family home and a Mermaid Beach apartment last year. . . Lawyers for Mrs Perrin argue that as the signatures on the loan documents are a “counterfeit forgery”, the mortgages and guarantees are “mere nullities having no legal force or effect”. It is alleged the signatures of Mr Perrin’s brother Fraser Perrin, a Gold Coast solicitor who “witnessed” Mrs Perrin’s signatures, are also fake.
Nicole reportedly bought the house with money from her personal sales of 13 million shares of Billabong stock and never signed it over to anyone. This might buy her at least a couple more weeks in the house, huh?
[Link: Sydney Morning Herald]
