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MoneySuperMarket co-founder and former managing director Richard Mason is reportedly offering a monetary incentive in his search for the real father of his ex-wife’s three children – all born in the ‘90s – whom he thought were his own until he found out in 2016 that he had been infertile all along.
Mason, now in his mid-50s, was diagnosed at the time with the genetic condition cystic fibrosis. The discovery led to a legal tussle with his previous spouse, who in November 2018 agreed to pay £250,000.
“I was shocked and surprised that she settled; I thought we were going to have a very acrimonious court battle,” solicitor Roger Terrell, from Mason’s camp, told the Daily Telegraph. “We were confident that we would get a court order whereby the ex-wife, the mother of the children, would have to name the father.
“She didn’t want to name the father – why, we don’t know – that is why she came to a financial settlement and in the settlement she did not have to name the father.”
The siblings, the younger of which are twins, were born in 1995 and 1999.
According to the report, the paternity fraud case is being brought to public attention in Mason’s hope that the real father would surface for the benefit of the now grown-up men.
Meanwhile Daily Post North Wales said a £5,000 reward is being offered by the former insurance MD for information leading to the truth.
Mason remarried in 2014, prior to the diagnosis. According to the regional publication, he met his current spouse through mutual friend and MoneySuperMarket co-founder Simon Nixon.
