THE former partner of plastic surgeon and hotelier Jerry Schwartz was seen by his mother as a "gold-digger" who was eyeing the family fortune, a Sydney inquest has been told.
NSW State Coroner Mary Jerram is investigating whether Dr Schwartz acted appropriately in signing the death certificates of his mother Eve Schwartz, 79, and her best friend Magda Wales, 76, who died three weeks apart in 2005.
Dr Schwartz, along with his late parents, founded The Schwartz Family Company, which owns a dozen hotels in NSW and Victoria, a shopping centre, a medical centre, and a brewery.
He is currently embroiled in a civil suit concerning the division of his mother's estate with his former partner Liliane Viselle, whom he never married.
During evidence given by Mrs Wales' son George in Glebe Coroner's Court on Tuesday, the relationship between Dr Schwartz and Ms Viselle was described as "tumultuous" and "aggravated".
Mr Wales said in the two years before her death, Eve Schwartz had repeatedly made it clear she thought Ms Viselle was after her son's money as well as her own.
"I believe the term 'gold-digger' was used," said Dr Schwartz's defence counsel Patrick Saidi.
Mr Wales said his own mother was also "towards the end ... genuinely trying to distance herself" from Ms Viselle.
The death certificate Dr Schwartz signed for his 79-year-old mother listed cause of death as lung cancer and a collapsed lung which cut off her oxygen on August 20, 2005.
The certificate he signed for Mrs Wales said her death was caused by an "acute cardiac event", ischaemic heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.
Mr Wales said he knew his mother was being treated by Dr Schwartz in the year or two before her death, and that he has never had any suspicion that his mother's death was unnatural.
The inquest heard that she had been seeing several different doctors for different medical conditions, and did not always disclose her ailments to her children for fear of upsetting them.
The inquest continues.
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