Personal Life
Laidlaw and his wife Christine divide their time between an apartment in Monaco overlooking the harbour; and their South African home, an early 20th-century 23,200 m2 estate in Noordhoek, near Cape Town. At the time of the purchase, in November 2005, it was the country's most expensive property, bought for R106-million.
After a sting operation staged by investigative journalist Mazher Mahmood on behalf of the British tabloid The News of the World, Laidlaw allegedly confessed to a lifetime fighting sex addiction. He later took part in a residential sex addict programme in South Africa, and donated £1 million to help fellow sufferers.
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