PART 7: THE HOSTILE DIVESTMENT
By the third week, Julianne had finalized her legal strategy with Marcus Vance—the city’s most feared financial
litigator and a distant cousin who had long despised Charles’s methods. They weren't just pursuing criminal charges
for child abandonment and wire fraud; they were executing a masterclass in corporate warfare. Charles Vance’s
power rested entirely on his position as CEO and majority shareholder of Vance Global Shipping.
“We don't just put him in jail,” Julianne stated during an emergency war room session in Marcus’s office. “If
he goes to prison with his fortune intact, he will still rule this family from a cell. He will use his assets to bury
Leo’s identity. We strip him of his throne first.”
Julian sat at the table, actively assisting the forensic accountants. Because he had been trained as the heir
apparent, he knew the locations of Charles’s off-book assets—the proxy shares held in European trusts, the shell
companies used to mask corporate diversions. Together with his mother, Julian initiated a proxy battle, using the
revelation of Charles’s criminal fraud to trigger the morality clauses in the corporate bylaws.
The institutional investors, terrified of the catastrophic PR fallout from a CEO who had legally erased his own
son, began to turn. One by one, the board members who had rubber-stamped Charles’s decisions for thirty years
began to jump ship. The market value of Vance Global fluctuated wildly, but the momentum was unstoppable.
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Julianne was systematically draining the blood from her husband's financial empire, turning his own corporate
machinery into a guillotine designed to sever his head from the dynasty.
