Millionaire nightclub boss Jeremy Gordeno has been handed a suspended prison sentence for not paying money owed to his ex wife.
Gordeno, the former boyfriend of model Lizzie Cundy, appeared at Reading County Court earlier today.
Gordeno, who was dumped by Cundy for getting too close to his ex’s 21-year-old daughter, faced an enforcement application for more than £20,000 under a Family Court Order.
In a complicated web, Gordeno was dating Candice Hodge, 40, but moved on to Ms Cundy before he struck up a close friendship with Candice’s daughter, Francesca.
Gordeno had been spending an increasing amount of time with mother-of-one Francesca Hodge, who is 32 years his junior.
Jeremy Gordeno arrives at Reading County Court this morning for the hearing
And during this morning’s hearing it was found Gordeno had refused or neglected to pay a sum of £20,738.66 and imposed a two-week custodial sentence suspended for three months.
The nightclub boss and businessman has until May 18, 2021, to pay up.
Gordeno was with ex Ms Cundy, 52, for about ten months before they broke up in October 2019 after she discovered his close friendship with his ex’s 21-year-old daughter.
She said at the time: ‘I ended it. I want nothing more to do with him. I’m shocked and horrified by recent events’.
Gordeno was ordered to pay back the money by owed by May
Gordeno is the former boyfriend of model Lizzie Cundy (pictured last October)
The former couple had been introduced through a mutual friend in a Weybridge wine bar in 2016 and had been seen together at a number of society events as their romance blossomed.
Entrepreneur Gordeno said in a statement: ‘I will always be very fond of Lizzie.
‘But events outside our control put our relationship under huge strain. I have come to realise it’s best we stay just friends.
‘The last few months have been like a soap opera. Lizzie and I have been the innocent victim of some wild and false accusations. Life with Lizzie is tremendous fun…
Gordeno and Francesca have been spotted together at a £1m love nest in Weybridge, Surrey (Gordeno is pictured walking through Surrey)
Gordeno was pictured at the wheel of 21-year-old Francesca Hodge’s Fiat 500 car last year – even though he had two months of a drink drive ban to serve
‘We got on really well from the word go. We didn’t stop laughing for weeks. Our friend told Lizzie before we met, “Jeremy will cheer you up” and I hope I did.
‘She’s not only beautiful but great company.’
After striking up a friendship with Miss Hodge’s daughter Francesca, Gordeno asked the elder Miss Hodge to marry him during a sun-kissed Caribbean break over the New Year in 2019.
But in a further twist, Miss Hodge dramatically called off their engagement after the holiday and Mr Gordeno rekindled his relationship with Francesca.
Speaking to MailOnline last March, Candice said she was ‘shattered and disgusted’ with her daughter and former lover.
Ms Cundy dumped Gordeno over his friendship with Francesca and this photo of her sitting on the nightclub entrepreneur’s lap emerged, prompting the TV star to take decisive action
Candice Hodge (left) arrived at court wearing a black coat, black blouse and black skirt in February last year as she was given a two-year restraining order for threatening and abusing WAG Lizzie Cundy (right)
‘If he can’t have me, then he wants to have my daughter,’ Candice said. ‘I am absolutely disgusted at what he is doing. I called off the engagement, but we remained friends.
‘I had no idea what was going on until I went to his flat to help him move in and asked to see the spare room. He would not let me in, but I pushed in anyway and saw Francesca’s clothes.
‘I just could not believe it. Francesca and I are no longer talking and I want nothing more to do with her. She is just blinded by love and can’t see that she is being used by him to get back at me.’
Gordeno and Francesca were spotted together living at a £1m love nest in Weybridge, Surrey. The property is the former home of Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts.
Francesca was said to have been spending an increasing amount of time with Gordeno
It was the second time Hodge, a dog groomer from Esher, Surrey, has been dumped by her millionaire lover for her own daughter.
MailOnline revealed the TV personality ended their relationship when she discovered he was seeing Francesca when photos emerging of her perched on his knee during a night out.
Mr Gordeno was seeing Hodge and Cundy at the same time leading to a love triangle that became even more complicated when Francesca was involved.
Their rivalry culminated in February 2020 with Ms Hodge being given a two-year restraining order for harassing the TV star.
Ms Hodge sent abusive text messages to her rival and was accused of verbally abusing her during a confrontation at Mr Gordeno’s £5m Hampshire mansion.
Speaking after her conviction at Aldershot Magistrate’s Court, Hodge revealed she had got engaged before Christmas and showed off a £10,000 diamond ring.
She said her fiancé flew her to Antigua in the Caribbean to celebrate their engagement.
Ms Cundy (left) and Candice’s fiance Gordeno (right) were together for ten months before she dumped him when he struck up a close friendship with Candice’s daughter, 21
But within weeks of the court hearing Candice said she called a halt to their relationship saying it was ‘too abusive’.
‘I want nothing more to do with him and I don’t want my daughter anywhere near him,’ she said.
Breaking down in tears, she added: ‘Francesca will not listen to me. We do not talk anymore and I just wish she would see him for what he is. He uses people. I don’t want her to be with him.
‘After the court hearing I knew I had to end out relationship as it was not healthy. I called it off, but we remained friends. I had no idea that my daughter had moved in with him.’
Ms Cundy regularly appears on panels for debates on shows such as This Morning, Celebrity Big Brother and Good Morning Britain.
She has previously appeared on a number of one-off celebrity reality shows and now hosts her own radio show.
Mr Gordeno, who lives in Sherfield on Loddon, Hants, is the son of the late dancer and cabaret singer Peter Gordeno and brother of Depeche Mode keyboardist Peter Dean Gordeno.