MODEL Terri Holladay, the former partner of millionaire businessman Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, is suing two solicitors' firms for negligence.
Ms Holladay, 29, who bore a son to the flamboyant property magnate, has worked as a model for the Elite Modelling Agency following the highly publicised split in 1995.
She is suing Fred Kan and Company and Stephenson Harwood and Lo, and interlocutory proceedings are due to be held on Wednesday, with the case estimated to take six to nine months to come to court.
Ms Holladay spoke out shortly after her 1993 'marriage' to Mr Chao, 60, was revealed as having no validity in law, telling the Sunday Morning Post Magazine she 'felt as if someone had killed me' on learning the truth.
After a lavish engagement party in 1992, the couple were reported to have wed at a quiet ceremony in Singapore a few months before the birth of their son, Roman.
As his 'wife', the woman often called Terri Holladay Chao was pursued by paparazzi at high society functions.