Estranged wife of Kenny Brack WINS the right not to be left out of $15m fortune

Kenny Brack leaving court.

The ex-wife of racing driver Kenny Brack has won her legal fight not to be cut out of his $15million fortune.

Yesterday Anita Brack, 51, won her case against retired Swedish driver Kenny Brack after taking him to court when she was left with 'almost nothing'.

The former IndyCar champion got his bride-to-be to sign a pre-nup when they were 'lying in bed, relaxing' on a romantic weekend to Niagara Falls ahead of their marriage in December 2000.

But Ms Brack claimed she was made to sign two more pre-nups in different countries as her husband's career took the pair around the world.

She was left with just £500,000 while the 52-year-old businessman took more than £10million in the Family Division of the London court.

But she said the court made a mistake and demanded that half the family money should be hers after the couple divorced after two children and 15 years of marriage.

Lady Justice King said yesterday that each party made equal contributions to the marriage.

She pointed out that the wife had no assets of her own but was landed with debt, some of which was owed to the husband.

'In my judgement the judge did fall into error in going so far as to conclude… that the wife had inevitably lost her sharing claim by reason of the prenuptial agreement,' she added.

Kenny Brack in 2002

It comes after another divorce judge rejected Ms Brack's claim for an equal share of the money due to her signing the agreement in full knowledge of what they meant.

Mr Brack told that judge he was 'not bothered' about marrying her and would have refused to had she not signed the pre-nups.

London's Appeal Court heard the Swedish couple married in December 29, 2000, after Mr Brack made her sign pre-nups in Canada, Sweden and the USA. They had been living together for six years prior to the marriage.

Mr Brack was an Indycar star in America at the time and had featured in the Hollywood film 'Driven', alongside Sylvester Stallone and Burt Reynolds.

A serious crash during a race in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2003 nearly killed him but he since resumed to driving. He had been a chief test driver for McClaren since May this year.

The pair raised their children at a £3million, five-bedroom property with a swimming pool in Cookham, Berkshire.

Mr and Mrs Brack both filed for divorce – the husband in Sweden and wife in the UK – in February 2015 and separated a month later.

A hearing about splitting the family money came before Mr Justice Francis in the Family Court in December 2016.

He said: 'I do not believe it to be fair, after a marriage of this length and with these contributions and these children, for the wife to be left with almost nothing and for the husband to be left with almost everything. Daily Mail