Author’s ex-wife Dan Brown accused him in a new lawsuit of secretly diverting large sums of money to carry out “sordid extramarital affairs,” including an engagement with a horse trainer, according to media reports.
Blythe Brown made the salacious allegations against her ex-husband Dan Brown, whose 2003 novel “The Da Vinci Code” sold 80 million copies, in a bomb lawsuit filed Monday in New Hampshire, the Boston Globe reported.
The couple divorced last December after more than 21 years of marriage, according to the newspaper.
Blythe alleges in the lawsuit that her 56-year-old ex engaged in “egregious and egregious conduct” amounting to a “proverbial life of lies” during the last years of their union, which included lavish gifts to a Dutch horse trainer, the Globe reported.
She brought the trainer, identified by the initials JP, from the Netherlands to the US in 2013 to work with a Friesian horse that was owned by the couple, according to the lawsuit filed in Rockingham Superior Court.
After the couple’s divorce was finalized, Blythe alleges that she learned that her then-husband had started an affair with JP in 2014, the newspaper reported.
The coach was recovering from a shoulder injury at the couple’s home in New Hampshire.
Blythe alleges that the best-selling author had diverted large sums of money from his accounts to buy the coach a $ 345,000 prize-winning Friesian called “Limited Edition,” the report says.
Supposedly, he also bought his lover a new car, a van, and paid for the renovations of his home in the Netherlands, substantially reducing the marital estate, Blythe Brown argued in the lawsuit.
After learning of the alleged affair, she confronted her ex-husband in January 2020, according to the Globe.
“I’ve done bad things with a lot of people,” he allegedly told her, admitting that he had also had an appointment with a local barber, the lawsuit alleges.
She claims that she later discovered that these were not her only conquests.
He had allegedly slept with his personal trainer and a “political official” at the couple’s vacation home in Anguilla, the newspaper reported.
In the lawsuit, Blythe says that she played a critical role in her husband’s success as a principal investigator. She said she “developed the premise of critical concepts, historical emphases, and complex plot twists” for all of her novels, including “The Da Vinci Code,” which was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Tom Hanks.
The film was a box office success, grossing more than $ 760 million worldwide.
Dan Brown has frequently touted his ex-wife’s substantial role in writing his books, the newspaper reported.
After he told her he was unhappy and that he wanted to separate, Blythe moved out of his New Hampshire home in 2018 and agreed to a silent divorce.
In a statement to the Globe, he said it was only after they broke up that he learned that he had allegedly been “leading a double life for years.”
She is suing Dan for allegedly misrepresenting the couple’s assets in the divorce and for inflicting emotional distress.
Dan insisted in the newspaper that he accurately reported the couple’s assets in the divorce and that he was “stunned” by the “false claims” by his ex-wife.
“I am saddened that there is not enough goodwill from 21 years of marriage to moderate their unfortunate actions,” he said in a statement.
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