Wife's 1970s affair leads to court battle over Norfolk toy tycoon's £14.5m fortune
Stuart Marcus built a multi-million pound games empire after he started selling dolls' houses from a room above an east London toy shop in the 1960s.
He later founded Swaffham-based Kitfix Hobbies which had a factory off Castle Acre Road making toys, board games and craft kits before the site closed last year.
Shortly before he died at the age of 86, in 2020, Mr Marcus put £14.5m worth of company shares into trust for his "children", with brothers Edward, 47, and Jonathan, 43, both benefiting.
Stuart Marcus, founder of Swaffham-based Kitfix, pictured in 2002 (Image: Newsquest) But the family was thrown into turmoil after the revelation that Edward was not Stuart's son, but instead the product of an affair between his mother, Patricia Marcus, and lawyer Sydney Glossop.
Last year, a judge ruled that Stuart was not Edward's dad, but said that Edward could still benefit from the £14.5m fortune on the basis that both brothers were intended to share.
This week, the case came back to court, with lawyers for Jonathan........
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