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RICHARD EDEN: Dunhill tobacco magnate heir sparks fresh lurid legal fight with former friend


There has been another salvo in a vitriolic High Court battle between Charles Karsten, 31, and Piers Dunhill, 29, great-great grandson of tobacco magnate Alfred Dunhill.

One, the son of a judge, had the aptitude for statistical analysis, while the other — scion of a family synonymous with commercial success — was blessed with the persistent charm needed for wooing clients. Thereafter, state the legal documents, other videos appeared on a specially created YouTube channel, one of which was 'falsely headed: 'Piers Dunhill is Off His Face on Drugs.' But he insists he took no action, and believes any website defaming Karsten that appeared was the work of 'Malaysian scammers', of whom, Dunhill says, he too fell foul.

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