nside the blingtastic world of billionaire wives: This one BATHES in champagne, spends £100,000 on a single Hermes handbag, has 14 homes, two private jets and 22 staff (Photos)

Diamond-encrusted dinner plates, £60,000 shopping sprees and champagne baths . . . it is a hard life when you’re married to one of the world’s wealthiest men.

When Christina Estrada, the former supermodel, revealed her exorbitant annual living expenses during her high-profile divorce from billionaire businessman Sheikh Walid Juffali this month, it raised more than a few eyebrows.

Ms Estrada, 54, received £53 million, the largest award of its kind ever made by a London court, every penny of which she says she ‘needs’.

There’s the £1 million she claims to spend on clothes every year, the £250,000 holiday in Paris, £94,000 for beauty treatments and £9,400 for four bottles of face cream. It clearly is another world.

But what else does a billionaire’s wife do with all that cash? I’ve asked some super-elite ladies, and well-placed professionals, for an exclusive peek inside their club.

£16,000-a-kilo caviar

No self-respecting billionaire’s wife concerns herself with cooking — there’s a private chef on call 24/7 to take care of that.

But if there are groceries to be bought, she wouldn’t be seen dead in Waitrose or Marks & Spencer. She prefers shopping in London’s upmarket Chelsea (where, at French bakery Poilane, a loaf of bread will set you back £5), Selfridges, where she’ll buy £1,800 legs of Iberico ham, and Harrods Caviar House, for their £16,000-a-kilo albino sturgeon caviar.

In one of last year’s most high-profile divorce cases, Anne Dias, the wife of hedge fund tycoon Ken Griffin, claimed she spent £5,130 a month on groceries alone — despite eating out most nights.

Kamaliya Zahoor, 39, a Ukrainian singer married to British-born billionaire Mohammad Zahoor, says her favourite restaurants are China Tang, the art deco eatery in London’s Dorchester Hotel, where she orders the £44 stir-fried lobster, and Le Gavroche, where she tucks into the £212-a-head tasting menu featuring poached duck.

Emyr Thomas, founder of concierge company Bon Vivant, says his female clients demand the best tables in the house — often with just a few hours’ notice. See photos below

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