Koo Stark (pictured), faces a £285,000 court bill after an appeal court judge dismissed her claim to a£50,000-a-year allowance from US financier Warren Walker, with whom she has a daughter, says Rory Tingle on MailOnline. The actress said that Walker promised her the money in a letter in 1997. The High Court rejected the initial claim last year, saying it was not a “legally-binding” deal.
A pub landlady has ended up with a legal bill of £54,000, after she opened her ex-husband’s post in a bid to prove he was having an affair, says Claudia Aoraha in The Sun. Karen and Lawrence Santi, who had run a chain of pubs together, split up last year. He sued her for breach of privacy, and she was ordered to pay 60% of…