A millionaire lawyer has become embroiled in a bitter court battle with her elderly father after discovering he was sleeping with her 28-year-old Filipino nanny.
City solicitor Audra Wamsteker, 49, had enjoyed a "close bond" with her father Paul David, 75, had "promised to look after him until his dying day" and "thought of him like a God," London County Court was told.
But that was before she found out he had begun what she saw as an "unthinkably repugnant" relationship with Jobeth Daguio - the nanny to her two children.
In 2013, the then 70-year-old Mr David married Ms Daguio, who was then 28, and they now have two young children.
The romance became the catalyst for Mrs Wamsteker's relationship with he r father to break down and they are now facing off in court over ownership of more than £1million worth of properties and jewellery.
The pair had been close as they built up a portfolio of properties across London, the US and Malaysia, but rows over their respective partners following the death of Mrs Wamsteker's mother - Mr David's first wife - in 2008, tore the family apart.
When her widowed father "formed an attachment to and subsequently married" the nanny, Mrs Wamsteker "objected strongly to the relationship, describing it as 'unthinkably repugnant'," the court heard.
Their wrangle now centres on who owns the rights to a properties including a four-bedroom detached bungalow in Salisbury Road, Worcester Park, Surrey, previously marketed for £740,000, and a flat in Selsdon Road, West Ham, East London, worth about £275,000.
Mr David says that he is the "beneficial owner" of both - despite them being in his daughter's name - having stumped up the deposits for them both and either "funded" or made "contributions" to their mortgages.
He also wants £150,000 for rent from his daughter, proceeds from sales of four properties in Florida and 23 items of his late first wife's jewellery which he claims were given to his daughter to store at her house for safekeeping.
Desmond Kilcoyne, Mrs Wamsteker's barrister, told the Judge Simon Monty QC that she denies her father has ever owned any of the properties.
She also refuses to give up her late mother's jewellery as she says it was "a gift" by her father before their relationship soured.
Mr Kilcoyne told the court Mr David's dislike of her daughter's investment director husband Adrianus Wamsteker, 52, was so bitter he threatened to kill his son-in-law with an axe.
The pensioner denied the allegations saying: "She makes me look like some sort of gangster. I look like a horrible man standing here. The axe was in my bedroom drawer.
"If I had approached him with an axe like she says, I would have hurt him."
Mrs Wamsteker, of Canary Wharf, London, has been practicing law in the capital for 17 years, following in the footsteps of her father of Stratford, East London, who is also a qualified lawyer and is representing himself in the case.
The hearing continues.