Breaking: Nigella Lawson’s Aides Found Not Guilty of Fraud

After a three-week trial in which Nigella Lawson admitted to habitual cocaine and marijuana use before and during her marriage to ex-husband Charles Saatchi, the jury has returned a verdict in regards to the actual people on trial: Sky News reports that Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo, the sisters and former aides of the power couple, were found not guilty of credit card fraud and cleared of all charges.

The sisters, who allegedly spent over  £685,000 on the couple’s cards for their own personal use, accused Lawson of authorizing their spending as a way to hide her daily abuse of drugs over the past decade, and emails from Saatchi seemed to corroborate their claims. Lawson herself charged Saatchi of using the trial to retaliate against her after their publicly nasty divorce from earlier this summer.

During the trial, Francesca claimed that she would often find rolled-up banknotes containing white powder in Lawson’s purses.

More to follow as this story breaks.

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[Sky News]

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