MR Alan Scott, Hongkong's former Secretary for Transport and a controversial Governor of the Cayman Islands, is in trouble with a former beauty queen who is claiming their affair during his tenure in the Caribbean tax haven produced a love child.
Known as Scott the Hitman for his abrasive sharp-shooting while a Hongkong civil servant, his retirement in the south of France has been shattered by a threatened paternity suit for a child born on his wedding anniversary.
He has also provoked the ire of Foreign Office mandarins in London who, according to sources, are considering withholding Mr Scott's Hongkong pension after furniture moved into storage when he was Caymans governor disappeared from Government House.
At the same time, rumours circulating the island chain suggest letters received by the Queen from loyal Cayman subjects, praising Mr Scott and requesting he should stay on as governor, appear to have been written on a Government House computer.
Mr Scott's passionate romance with Ms Juline Lessinsky, 39, the attractive wife of a wealthy British doctor, is supposed to have begun after they met at a cocktail party in George Town.
Ms Lessinsky is claiming Mr Scott is the father of her two-year-old daughter, Alison Simone, and is threatening to bring a paternity suit to prove it. The baby was born on May 29, 1991 - Mr Scott's wedding anniversary.