Collector Guy Ullens Sues Son in Wake of Wife’s Fatal Shooting
Guy Ullens has filed fit against his son Nicholas Ullens, who is alleged to have murdered his stepmother and Guy’s spouse, influential collector Myriam “Mimi” Ullens, late last thirty day period. According to Brussels each day De Standard, legal professional Nathalie Buisseret submitted the civil fit on Guy’s behalf on April 3 in Nivelles, Belgium. Lawful proceedings are continuing apace from Nicholas, who is explained to have shot his stepmother repeatedly in the head as she remaining the loved ones home in Ohain, Belgium, with Person the early morning of March 29. Person sustained a gunshot wound to the leg.
Male and Myriam Ullens, who wed in 1999, with each other assembled a collection of around two thousand will work, a lot of by contemporary Chinese artists. The few in 2008 introduced thUllens Heart for Present-day Art in Beijing. Now acknowledged as the UCCA Center for Present-day Art, the non-public museum has more branches, in Beidaihe and Shanghai, and is considered 1 of China’s major up to date artwork establishments. In 2017, the museum was offered to a group of Chinese investors led by non-public fairness team Lunar Capital.
Nicholas’s siblings have declared that they aid their brother, telling Belgian information outlet Het Belang van Limburg, “Mimi wrecked our loved ones.” The slaying of Myriam Ullens is reported to have been monetarily enthusiastic. At the time of the killing, Flemish information web page VRT noted that Nicholas and his stempother had been in conflict “for years” about an inheritance subject, with Nicholas accusing Myriam of squandering the Ullenses’s fortune after Guy experienced a stroke. “Mimi plagued the family members,” just one of Nicholas’s sisters told the press. “She needed all the things for herself. We weren’t even allowed to see Dad any longer,” Nicholas turned himself in to law enforcement soon soon after the killing. A court docket on Monday prolonged his detention by a month.
