While exchanging vows, new lovers often shower in the bliss of the 'happily ever after' slogan with the hope of enjoying each other's company for eternity.
For these five foreign tycoons, however, the happy ending remained a pipe dream.
The wealthy foreigners include a Tanzanian who lost multi-million properties to his Kenyan wife to another who was forced to beg on the streets.
1. Reiner Hans Hermann Kreplin
In March 2021, German investor, Reiner Hans Hermann Kreplin, lamented that he lost millions to his Kenyan fiancé.
The 66-year-old alleged that the 24-year old girl, Mercy Adhiambo Achieng, took the Ksh5.4 million from a private villa where they lived together prior to vanishing without a trace.
Kreplin had planned to purchase the villa alongside investing in a multi-million irrigation project and a recycling plant in Ganze, Kilifi County
“Not even the security guards at the villa saw her leaving,” the foreigner complained.
‘’I reported the matter to Malindi police station after she went missing. We went with the police to my cottage only to find the suitcase broken into and Sh5.4 Million in foreign currency missing,’’ he added.
Police in Malindi launched investigations into the matter after Kreplin filed a comment.
2. German tycoon Mähne
In April 2020, a German tycoon only identified as Mähne revealed that he was forced into the streets after reportedly losing Ksh6 million to his lover.
His girlfriend allegedly swept his Diani house clean and made away with property worth Ksh6 million forcing Mähne to find shelter in the streets.
Mähne arrived in the country back in 2018 and claimed to have fallen in love with a lady who turned his life topsy-turvy.
3. Wolfgang Theodor Fischer
In March 2021, German tycoon, Wolfgang Theodor Fischer, was reported to have died by suicide in Kwale County.
Inconclusive investigations into the incident detailed that the 82-year-old lost his multi-million property to his 62-year-old Kenyan wife and relatives.
The two had reportedly purchased property in Diana. However, Fischer allegedly complained that he was not happy with the marital life in the past three decades before his death.
"The tycoon wrangled with his in-laws over property and was also suffering from cancer," a detective attached to the case revealed.
4. John Eugene Bennet
In October 2015, an American identified as John Eugene Bennet broke into tears in court while narrating how his Kenyan wife swindled his hard-earned cash.
Bennet accused his wife, Karungari Gacoki Murigu Bennet and her mother of conspiring to take away his property by registering it in her name.
"I have limited funds. All my accounts are in the name of my Kenyan wife with whom we have a four-year-old son and an eight-month-old daughter. I married her in 2008.
“Here I am now, I cannot help myself. My wife set me up. She and my mother-in-law cannot allow me to see my children," he recounted.
He also told the court that the wife and mother hatched a plan to have him deported from the country.
5. Tanzanian Man
A Tanzanian man lost his wealth to his wife after a court in Kenya stripped him of the right to split the multi-million property located in the Coastal region.
The ruling which was delivered in January 2022, indicated that the tycoon had failed to provide evidence to prove his marriage to the Kenyan wife and qualify for an equal share of their matrimonial property.
The court heard that the Tanzanian had registered all the property under the wife and had nothing else to defend his legality.
He, however, claimed that they tied the knot in a traditional Maasai ceremony.
