David Hasselhoff was so desperate to protect his £25million fortune that he made his wife sign a pre-nuptial agreement just 30 minutes before they were married.


Pamela Bach was in her wedding dress waiting to walk down the aisle when her husband-to-be thrust a pen and paper into her hands. Thinking it was a marriage licence, the bit-part actress put her signature on it.


The astonishing events were revealed in new court papers filed in Los Angeles last week as part of one of Hollywood's most notoriously bitter divorces.


Bach has accused him of being a drunk and of breaking her nose in a fight. And he has retaliated, saying

"The only person who broke my wife's nose was her plastic surgeon."

(Still a classic statement!!!)


Hasselhoff first asked her to sign the papers a month before their wedding in 1989, Bach claims in court documents. But she had not heard of the term 'pre-nuptial agreement' and the meeting with his lawyers ended because she was crying so severely. (how can you not know what a pre-nup is??)


It was not until half an hour before she became Mrs Hasselhoff, standing in a backroom of the church, that Bach, apparently unknowingly signed the agreement.

"I was under the impression that I was being asked to sign my marriage licence,"

she claims.


With wedding guests already seated, Bach, who was about ten weeks pregnant, "felt rushed and compelled to sign the document quickly". She adds

"I did not realise I was rushing to execute the final version of a signature page which would be attached to a pre-nuptial agreement."

Just goes to show you shouldn't sign anything without reading it first!!


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