UNITED KINGDOM: LAWSUIT BETWEEN BORIS BECKER AND ANGELA ERMAKOV ABOUT LEGAL MAINTENANCE FOR THEIR YEAR OLD DAUGHTER REACHES THE HIGH COURT

Record ID: 337889

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: LAWSUIT BETWEEN BORIS BECKER AND ANGELA ERMAKOV ABOUT LEGAL MAINTENANCE FOR THEIR YEAR OLD DAUGHTER REACHES THE HIGH COURT
  • Date: 10th July 2001
  • Summary: (W4) LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (JULY 10, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VIEW OF HIGH COURT 2. CLOSE UP OF HIGH COURT SIGN ON WALL 3. LAWYERS WALKING PAST MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA AND ENTERING COURT 4. ANGELA ERMAKOVA ENTERING COURT SURROUNDED BY MEMBERS OF MEDIA 5. VIEW OF HIGH COURT Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Story Text: The hearing for the latest round of the battle between
    former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker and a Russian model who
    bore his child after a five second encounter in a laundry
    cupboard has come before a High Court Family Division judge in
    London.



    Becker admitted earlier this year that he is the father
    of 34-year-old Angela Ermakova's one-year-old daughter Anna
    after initially denying paternity.

    The former world number one did not appear at the High
    Court court on Tuesday (July 10) despite widespread
    expectations that he would turn up.

    However an agreement is believed to have been tentatively
    reached over the amount Becker must pay, legal sources said.

    Ermakova was in court briefly before one of the country's
    senior judges, Justice Robert Johnson.

    She and lawyers for both sides were later attempting to
    finalise the deal, the sources said. They are due back before
    the judge, who must approve the deal, on Tuesday afternoon.

    Becker has described his brief encounter with Ermakova in
    a laundry cupboard at fashionable London restaurant Nobu as
    five seconds that will haunt him for the rest of his life.

    Becker, 33, had been drinking heavily after his defeat at
    Wimbledon two years ago by Australian Pat Rafter.

    "It wasn't even an affair," Becker told ARD German
    television last April. "It was an act that lasted five
    seconds.

    "I never saw her before and never saw her again
    afterwards. It's a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of
    my life."
    Becker, who also faces a tax investigation by German
    authorities, was reported earlier this by British media to
    have initially agreed a two million pounds ($2.8 million) deal
    with Ermakova.


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