Gary Dean, who runs his own advertising company, publicised the fact that he had paid his ex-wife Helen a cash lump sum of £3.7 million, as well as financing her Mercedes and Audi convertible.  He also agreed to pay £15,000 a year for each of their four children up to the age of 17, to cover all school fees and to allow Mrs Dean to keep her jewellery.  Lastly, included in the settlement was his former wife's "cherished number plates — 7HD and 10HD".  Mr Dean, 47, said he set up a website entitled The Truth About Helen Louise Dean v Gary Dean because of the "Chinese whispers" circulating about him.  "Over the course of the last year I have been subject to gossip about my divorce, some of it just silly tittle-tattle and some of it malicious," he said.  "Much of this is circulated and perpetuated by people who haven't got a bloody clue of what the truth is.  "They are just making wild guesses, or making it up, or are misinformed, or are making false claims irrespective of whether such claims have any basis in truth."  Mr Dean, who has a new younger partner who he insists was not connected to the break-up, said he had been portrayed as a "ruthless tight bastard" who had abandoned his 46-year-old wife and children, leaving them destitute.  He said: "It's simply not true at all and I've decided that instead of allowing the rumour-mill to continue churning out nonsense, I'd just set out the actual facts to stop it."  But he added: "For the record, I am not directing what appears here at Helen and I don't blame her for any of this.  "That would be wrong as I have no idea whether she's spoken about it or not."  The Deans lived in a large house in St Michaels, near Preston, Lancs, with their daughter and three sons.  They enjoyed two or three holidays a year.  When they first met Mr Dean was earning £700 a week, but his wealth flourished after he set up his business, while his wife stayed at home to look after the children.  Mr Dean said: "Quite why we both went through almost two years of huge legal bills and the stress of fighting the financial aspects of divorce, I really don't know."  Financial matters were finally settled in Preston High Court in July 2007 but after more than a year of continued speculation about the divorce, Mr Dean decided to silence the rumours.  He said he had no regrets about the website. "I wanted to put the matter to bed once and for all," he said. "I wanted to do it in one hit, so that the people who have been talking about me can get their facts straight.  "It may not stop their tongues wagging, but at least they can stop telling lies about me."  A male relative of Mrs Dean, who answered the door of her new home near Thornton in Lancashire, said she did not want to comment.
A multi-millionaire businessman laid bare the financial details of his divorce    for the world to see on the internet to stop