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Money can't buy love: Why woman divorced billionaire Ken Kiplagat

Ken Kiplagat pictured here. His wife Catherine (inset) filed for divorce

Many Kenyan women would kill or kiss love goodbye to marry a man worth US$2 billion (Sh201 billion), including a cool Sh600 million in hard cash laying eggs in local banks.

But Catherine Jelugat Kiplagat, a vivacious corporate executive and wife of Kanu era billionaire-lawyer Ken Kiplagat, walked away from her husband’s gold mine because, she claimed, he cheated on her. And she claimed half of his loot.

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