Patrik Schumacher's court documents reveal the executors of Zaha Hadid's estate tried to have her name removed from the eponymous practice.
The business partner of the late British Iraqi architect made the claim within a 20-page document submitted to the UK's High Court seen by British architecture website BD.
Schumacher also stated that he had been asked to pay £7.75 million from Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) into a trust held by the other executors of her will, who allegedly threatened to fire him if he didn't comply.
He was also prevented, he claimed, from speaking at her 2016 memorial service, and excluded from a dinner at the Serpentine Gallery celebrating an exhibition of Hadid's work.
"Personal animosity" getting in the way, Schumacher claims  The documents are part of Schumacher's court action to try and get the other three executors of Hadid's will removed and independent executors appointed. In response to the legal action friends of the late architect have accused him of trying to gain sole control of her £70 million estate, and of trying "thwart" her last wishes.

In the papers Schumacher's lawyers argue that the "personal animosity" of Rana Hadid, Peter Palumbo and Brian Clarke towards the ZHA director has "coloured their decision-making" in matters regarding her estate.
The three executors publicly denounced Schumacher after comments he made about scrapping social housing at the 2016 World Architecture.
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