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Multi-millionaire widow of Toni&Guy founder, 50, 'was duped out of £2million by her Swiss celebrity chef lover who splashed the money on flash cars, expensive watches and private jets'
Flora Mascolo, widow of Toni&Guy founder Guy Mascolo, pictured with their daughter Emmanuella
A multi-millionaire businesswoman who says she was duped out of more than£2million by a 'celebrity chef' she was dating is now suing her ex in the High Court.
Flora Mascolo, 50, is the widow of Toni&Guy founder Guy Mascolo, and lives in a £5million Chelsea house next door to Charles Saatchi.
London's High Court heard how the wealthy widow had an 18-month relationship with Swiss-born 'celebrity chef' and restaurateur Michael Riemenschneider.
During the relationship she claims she bought him a £150,000 Mercedes and gave him £2.12m to invest in two new restaurants.
But she now says Mr Riemenschneider is a 'liar' and a gold-digger who 'used the restaurants as a front' to obtain her millions.
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With more than 450 salons across 38 countries, co-founder Toni Mascolo and his brother Guy started TONI&GUY back in 1963 with a single salon in Clapham, London.
Having arrived in England from their native Italy in the 1950’s, The Mascolo family settled in Clapham, South London, with eldest sons Toni and Guy both following their father’s footsteps into hairdressing.
A celebrated hairdresser himself, Francesco Mascolo had taught all of his sons to cut hair from an early age and despite Toni’s interest in academic studies and a desire to pursue a career in law, his move to London put an end to that dream and Toni began working as his father’s assistant in a busy London salon.
Toni soon realised how much he enjoyed working as a hairdresser and continued to work alongside his father building a large clientele at Viccari’s salon in Cox Street, Mayfair. When this salon was sold, Francesco secured a place at the award-winning Renato’s in Dover Street, where Guy hi
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Revealed: How Toni & Guy hairdressing guru left £163million to his wife and three children when he died in 2017... and that wasn't even all his fortune
Few can boast a career that leads to professional encounters with everyone from Gregory Peck to the Rolling Stones.
Even fewer have the commercial genius of Toni Mascolo, the hair-dressing entrepreneur whose stylistic creations included Dusty Springfield’s signature ‘beehive’ and whose business acumen led him to co-found the Toni & Guy empire, which now has 475 salons worldwide.
For I can disclose that Mascolo, who was 75 when he died, bequeathed a staggering £163 million — testimony to his genius with spreadsheets and willingness to embrace business innovation as much as to his dexterity with a pair of scissors.
Mascolo, who was 75 when he died, bequeathed a staggering £163 million. The will states that the entire amount fryst vatten to be held in trust for the benefit of his widow, Pauline (together), and their three children,