He was a City genius who sparred with Boris Johnson in debates when they were students together at Oxford.
Now the late Danny Truell’s multi-million-pound fortune is at the centre of a bitter court battle between his lover and his brother.
Magdalena Zalinska, 44, a nightclub boss, is being sued by Edi Truell over claims she obtained £4million from Danny by ‘undue influence’ before he died of a neurological condition aged 55 in 2019.
Miss Zalinska, who was left more than £1million in Danny’s will, denies the allegations, insisting they had a ‘romantic and loving relationship’ for 14 years.
Magdalena Zalinska, 44, a nightclub boss, is being sued by Edi Truell over claims she obtained £4million from Danny by ‘undue influence’ before he died of a neurological condition aged 55 in 2019
Edi, a City financier, 59, claims that although she had a sexual relationship with his brother, she was his paid carer from 2012 and did not live with him.
The case has not yet gone to a full High Court trial, but a judge this month rejected a bid by Edi and the other executor of Danny’s will, solicitor John Rayner Hatchard, to have Miss Zalinska jailed for contempt of court.
They accused her of breaching a freezing order designed to preserve her bank balance until the case is decided. It limited her to £500 a week to pay for her upkeep, and reasonable legal expenses. But she made withdrawals and purchases totalling about £76,000 in the four weeks after the order was made last July.
Lifelong Labour Party member Danny Truell was a contemporary at Balliol College of future prime minister Mr Johnson and frequently faced him in debates.
He was a City genius who sparred with Boris Johnson in debates when they were students together at Oxford. Now the late Danny Truell’s multi-million-pound fortune is at the centre of a bitter court battle between his lover and his brother
He went on to become a hugely successful fund manager. After running Goldman Sachs’ asset management arm, he moved to Britain’s biggest charity the
