Saturday, March 5, 2011

Elen Rives hits Harrods as she prepares for £12.5m split from footballer Lampard

Elen Rives clearly has no plans to adjust her lifestyle just yet. The former fiancée of Frank Lampard headed out to Harrods for a spot of shopping following the news of her split from the Chelsea footballer.

Elen, who has two daughters Luna, two, and Isla, one, with the England midfielder, has called time on their seven-year relationship. She is understood to have reached her decision while on holiday in Florida last month.



Frank Lampard looked sombre as he left his home in Chelsea with daughter Luna today; while ex-fiancée Elen Rives stepped out for a shopping spree at Harrods with WAG girlfriend Abbey Clancy

Elen can expect up to half of Lampard's £25million fortune even though she never married him, but she may have to sign a confidentiality agreement.





Clancy met up with her love-split friend for the trip

Yesterday the pair were locked in crisis talks as they discussed where she will live, visiting rights and a possible settlement. Friends of Lampard have put the split down to the trauma brought on by the death of his mother Pat in April.


But the seeds of the break-up appear to have been sown when Miss Rives, 30, twice endured allegations of his infidelity. Friends of the model said she has never forgiven him for his alleged fling with an Eastern European brunette during a boys' only jaunt to Las Vegas two years ago. Lampard, 30, was pictured with the woman by a tabloid newspaper and is said to have spent four hours with her in a villa. 'Elen felt humiliated by the whole episode,' said a friend. 'Frank has also never given her an adequate explanation for what he was doing, so it has simply festered.

'He has also not followed through on his promise to make her his wife - but it is the Las Vegas trip which has done all the real damage.' Lampard had been accused of playing away before. In 2006 a woman claimed she had sex with him at a hotel in Barcelona - Miss Rives's home city. The footballer, meanwhile, is said to have been enraged to discover in a Sunday newspaper that his fiancée had been married before.

A friend of Lampard said: 'There was Elen going on to Frank about the importance of being honest with one another when she had been married and never told him.'





Spanish beauty Rives has ended her engagement with Chelsea and England player Lampard following a seven-year relationship

Lampard was also unhappy at his fiancée's antics during the World Cup in Germany, when she was a ringleader among England 'WAGs' on raucous nights out. His friend said: 'Frank was very embarrassed and annoyed. He had a £5million contract with Tesco at the time which he thought he might lose because of the damage Elen was doing his image.'

Last night a source close to the former air hostess said: 'Elen told Frank two weeks ago that neither of them could go on living a lie - that the relationship was over.' Miss Rives has seen a solicitor about the split from Lampard, who is thought to be paid £120,000 a week.





Frank with Elen and daughter Luna sunbathing together in 2006

The friend added: 'She has been told that although they never married, she can expect around £10million.' But Ayesha Vardag, a lawyer specialising in high-value divorce cases, said that while she did not know the details, that sounded 'awfully high'. Lampard and Miss Rives spent much of yesterday at their £3million Chelsea home, where she is staying until she finds somewhere else.

Leaving to take his daughters Luna, two, and one-year-old Isla for a short drive, Lampard refused to comment, merely saying: 'We will not be making a formal announcement. Please leave us alone.' Miss Rives left later in a taxi. She said: 'I can't comment on anything I'm afraid. I am sorry.'
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