A self-styled 'lord' is fighting a bitter court battle against his wife who wants to divorce him for making his young mistress pregnant for the second time.
Houshang Jafari, 60, is fighting wife Aghdas Bidaki, 53, over an affair with a woman 20 years her junior.
Mr Jafari insists he is allowed a second wife under Sharia Law, the moral code of Islam and has moved mistress Katrina - who has dubbed herself Lady Jafari - into his luxurious £1.2million flat.
Houshang Jafari is waging a bitter war with his wife, who is attempting to divorce him for making his young mistress pregnant for a second time
Houshang Jafari (left) maintains he is allowed a second wife under Sharia Law, the moral code of Islam and has moved mistress Katrina - who has dubbed herself Lady Jafari - into his luxurious manor apartment
But Ms Bidaki, who still lives in the couple's family home, claims his fling with the woman is grounds for divorce after he got her pregnant again.
The couple came head-to-head at Bristol County Court in the divorce battle - with the husband cross-examining his wife in the civil case.
The court was told that millionaire property developer Mr Jafari had married Ms Bidaki in Iran in 1978, but he had now moved out of the couple's home in Downleaze, Bristol.
Aghdas Bidaki (left) the wife of Lord Houshang Jafari, arrives at court, along with her husband's mistress Katrina - who has dubbed herself Lady Jafari (right)
Mr Jafari has now moved in with his mistress Katrina at his luxury apartment at the historic Dower House, overlooking the M32 at Bristol's Stoke Park, the court heard.
It was claimed that Katrina adopted his surname and uses the title 'Lady Jafari', but is not legally married to him.
A view of the luxurious Dower House, Bristol, where Houshang Jafari has moved in with his mistress, who is twenty years younger than his wife
His wife, who lives in the pair's modest family home, claims his relationship with the woman is grounds for divorce after he got her pregnant
Mother-of-three Ms Bidaki said she had wanted to divorce him earlier but under Sharia Law she would not have been able to take her three children with her.
The bitter battle is yet another source of grief for the property developer.
In 2010 he was jailed for a year following his attempt to stop a helicopter taking off in the luxurious grounds of the apartment he shares with his mistress.
The furious businessman was jailed after 'endangering an aircraft in a separate court case in 2010
Dr Mark Blokland, with his wife Tammy, flew a helicopter to the 16th-century Grade II listed building and hovered outside to pick up his business partner Simon Clarke and his partner Elizabeth Hale.
But Mr Jafari was so incensed at the disturbance he tried to open the pilot’s door and kicked it, then he threw a bag full of chicken bones, that he had been feeding to his dogs, at the blades.
And if that wasn’t dangerous enough, the hung on to the craft’s landing bars, making it tip perilously in mid-air.
As punishment for putting the pilot and his passengers at risk of ‘catastrophic consequences’, he was jailed for a year in August 2010 after being convicted of endangering an aircraft.
He was also ordered to pay £2,800 in costs.
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