PRINCESS’S COSTLY DIVORCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 430, 22 June 1922, Page 12

PRINCESS’S COSTLY DIVORCE.

■\ claim for a fee of half a million pounds is being made by a lawyer ugam.-t Olga Humphrey, ihe actress, says a New York correspondent. After administrative ami lax expenses in England and Prance to Hie amount of £400,000 had been deducted from lu-r share of the estate of her latj husband, (ho Turkish Prinee Ibrahim Hassan, she | KU | | e [| a fortime nnderslood lo amount to £1,000,000. Of this Mr Herman L Roth, member of a New York law firm, now claims £300,000 for legal services rendered. Mr Roth says that in 1914 he entered into an agreement, with the Princess by which 1„. was to endeavour io obtain a, divorce for her. Any sums realix-d from actions io bo started'in anv part of the world were to bo divided lall.V between them, and | ]o has none to California io try to colled the £500,000 he says i- due lo nun. Ohra Humphrey was well known oi: the London as wv ll as the American stage, having Slurred in Ihe "Prisoner of Zemin" and oilier productions. She was divorced from her first husband, and then married Prince Hassan, who died in Paris in 1914, while divorce' proceedings wee pending. Her third husband was a Uu-ptam Broadwood, of the British Army.