We should have known that times were hard at the Ecclestone household when we saw Bernie's oldest daughter, 22-year-old Tamara, taking a job as a Formula One TV journalist, interviewing the likes of Grand Prix drivers Niki Lauda and Arturo Merzario (and making a good job of it) in the Inner Sanctum of Karl Heinz-Zimmerman's motorhome at Monza, the very track where Tamara's mom and dad met in 1981.
What could possibly be the source for such distress at Bambino Holdings, Ltd., the Ecclestone Family Trust entity named after Tamara and Petra, which functions as the trust Bernie Ecclestone set up for wife Slavica as well as the two daughters?
On July 3rd 2006, an English law firm, Peters & Peters, filed a Claim on behalf of Kamos-Finanz, a Swiss lender, in the High Court of Justice Chancery Division in London, against SLEC Holdings Limited and Bambino Holdings Limited which, according to the court papers "concern[s] a loan of US$235,219,972.50 advanced on 24 April 2001 ('the Loan')."