Multi-millionaire with Alzheimer’s who vanished two years ago is found alive …

Georg Luxi disappeared from his home in Deggendorf, Bavaria, on December 15 2010
His disappearance sparked a massive hunt by police and his daughters Eveline, 61, and Gabrielle, 55
The women say the only contact they have had since his reappearance has been through his new family
New family claims he has demonstrated his love for them by signing over all of his property and wealth
His daughters have filed a lawsuit against new family claiming embezzlement and false imprisonment

By
Matt Blake

PUBLISHED:

12:43 GMT, 7 November 2012

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UPDATED:

18:55 GMT, 7 November 2012

Found alive: Georg Luxi's disappearance sparked a massive hunt by police and his devastated daughters

Found alive: Georg Luxi’s disappearance sparked a massive hunt by police and his devastated daughters

A German multimillionaire with dementia who vanished without trace two years ago has been found alive with a new wife and stepson – who now stand to inherit his vast fortune.

Georg Luxi disappeared from his home in Deggendorf, Bavaria, on December 15 2010, sparking a massive hunt by police and his devastated daughters Eveline, 61, and Gabrielle, 55.

But when the women finally found him, say the only contact they have had with their father since his reappearance has been through his new wife, Christa, and her son, Joseph.

The new family claims he is happy in Austria and has demonstrated his love for them by signing over all of his property and wealth to them – including giving them access to his bank accounts.

Now, in a legal first in Germany, Eveline and Gabrielle have filed a lawsuit against Christa and Joe, whose surnames do not appear on court papers, claiming embezzlement and false imprisonment.

They claim the mother and son effectively kidnapped their father – who they say suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease – and brainwashed him into leaving them all his money.

They now want him returned to Germany where they say he can get the care and supervision he needs.

The retired entrepreneur, who made his fortune in the fruit wholesale business, had several million euros in his bank
accounts as well as seven luxury properties in Germany.

Mr Luxi is said to have met Christa after the death of his first wife.

A sports-car enthusiast, he enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, splashing out on luxury homes across the town in which he lived.

Vanished: Mr Luxi, 86, disappeared from his home in Deggendorf, Bavaria, in 2010. His new family say he is happy and does not wish to be contacted

But in around 2005, Eveline says his mind began to deteriorate, and he began forgetting basic facts about her such as what she did for a living and even her age.

He had also begun a relationship with
Christa. From that point, Eveline claims contact with her father
steadily declined until it completely fizzled out.

He stopped answering her phone calls and letters and even missed his sister’s funeral in September 2009.

‘I cannot sleep, am nervous and broken. I am in a state of grief’

Then came a letter, apparently signed by Mr Luxi, apologising for being so difficult to contact because he had been busy walking and travelling.

‘If I have time, I’ll write again,’ he wrote.

In the following months, he wrote a handful of letters, including one to cancel plans to spend Christmas with his daughters. Then his correspondence completely dried up.

But, while the handwriting was undoubtedly his, Eveline and Gabrielle claim the words and phrases in his final letters appeared less and less familiar, as though they had been dictated to him.

They filed a missing persons report in December 2010 and, in January 2012, a court in Deggendorf ruled him to be in ‘imminent danger’ and expressed ‘real doubts over the honesty’ of Christa and Joseph, according to newspaper Sud Deutsche.

While Eveline says she has all but given up hope of seeing any of her father’s fortune, she says she just wants to see him again.

‘I cannot sleep, am nervous and broken,’ she told Sud Deutsche. ‘I am in a state of grief.’

But Joseph, Mr Luxi’s de facto spokesman, apparently wrote in a letter to the court: ‘Mr. Georg Luxi is a staunch, former entrepreneur and does what he wants… [he] enjoys his life as a free citizen.’

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First line of every will is “I ______being of sound mind…..”. If he was diagnosed with Alzheimers before he went missing then the will isn’t valid. That will get her father returned but his money is most likely long gone into hidden accounts.

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Sharon
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Dallas, United States,
08/11/2012 03:01

I do hope his daughters win the case…

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saek013
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Princeton, United States,
08/11/2012 02:10

Doesn’t the Haigh Convention cover things of this sort? Intellectualy he is a child.

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Brian
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NZ, New Zealand,
08/11/2012 01:41

Some people will stoop to any disgusting depth for money …

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Henry Page
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Newhaven, United Kingdom,
07/11/2012 23:21

Please can we stop the ‘…wonder what they saw in the multi millionaire…’ comments. Getting rather tedious…if you have something to say make it constructive or interesting!

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Outside In
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Lancashire,
07/11/2012 21:54

He vanished without trace but his new family had access to his bank accounts! Are they not traceable?

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Stephen
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Paris,
07/11/2012 20:27

Dad! There you are, I’ve been worried sick.

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Baldrick
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From the West, Canada,
07/11/2012 19:52

In Germany one can not leave ones money to whom one may wish – it goes to ones wife/children according to legal paramenters

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catch22
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Poole,
07/11/2012 15:56

I wonder what the new wife saw in this ageing multi-millionaire?

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Nick Nayme
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Beyond Yonder,
07/11/2012 14:40

I thought that if you married someone with dementai it was not legaalybinding as the sufferer would not be truly aware of the ramifications.

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biddie
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west midlands, United Kingdom,
07/11/2012 14:33

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