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A Made in Chelsea TV star has been living a secret life of "homelessness and financial distress" caused by a fight over his mum's rich ex-boyfriend's £38m fortune, a court has heard.
Behind his "highly curated" social media feeds appearing to show an "opulent and carefree" lifestyle, "Posh PT" Lonan O'Herlihy has in fact lost his long term girlfriend and been made "homeless and dependent upon the generosity of friends to keep a roof over his head," London's High Court was told.
Mr O'Herlihy's author and painter mum Pamela was in a relationship with multimillionaire vintage car and plane collector Hugh Taylor between 1995 and 2003, a man the TV star claims was like "a father" to him.
After Mr Taylor died in 2019, leaving behind a £38m estate - including classic cars, high end properties and a Second World War era Hawker Hurricane aircraft, almost all of which went to his widow Jennifer Taylor - the reality s
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