Last year, some of the Dublin-based Tidey business family was facing legal action by bankruptcy officials questioning the ownership of some of their assets, including the multi-million-euro Mount Eagle mansion on Killiney’s Vico Road. The High Court saga, initiated in 2016 by US vulture fund Cerberus after it acquired the commercial property debts of homewares magnate Alistair Tidey, had landed at the door of his wife Jane after she acquired ownership of Mount Eagle and other assets from her then bankrupt husband.  The luxury coastal residence reportedly housed Hollywood actor Matt Damon for a time last summer during his famously…

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