Lawyer takes stand in fee fight with Brunei prince

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer locked in a multimillion-dollar dispute with Brunei’s Prince Jefri Bolkiah is telling a New York court there’s nothing to the royal’s claims that she stole from him.

Faith Zaman Derbyshire testified today that she was acting on Jefri’s instructions when she took a $5 million share of his proceeds from a real estate sale.

She said the money was supposed to cover fees that the prince owed her and her lawyer husband, Thomas Derbyshire.

She also says she bought three pricey watches with Jefri’s money because they were for members of his family.

The prince says the Derbyshires stole about $7 million. They say he owes them more than that in fees and authorized everything they did.

Jefri is a brother of the sultan of oil-rich Brunei.