The empress unravels
While her husband was “singing red and smashing black” and her son was living his champagne-fuelled life at Oxford, Gu Kailai's behaviour was becoming increasingly erratic.
In 2005 or 2006, Gu had fallen out with Patrick Devillers, the French architect who had been her main business agent abroad and probably her lover as well. By 2007, with her son at university in the UK, she had returned to China to live with her husband in Chongqing.
In Devillers' wake, Neil Heywood took on a more active role in Gu's financial affairs. Heywood told friends Devillers had been involved in “substantial financial dealings” with Gu and the Frenchman's exit from the scene provided an opening for him to take over. Although they say they cannot ...
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