David Gest, the estranged husband of Liza Minnelli, wants a judge to set aside his prenuptial agreement with the star, the latest development in their lengthy divorce battle.

Mr. Gest's lawyers told State Supreme Court Judge Harold B. Beeler on Friday that Miss Minnelli hid the fact that she was infected with herpes, was an alcoholic and prone to violence. Had Mr. Gest known, the lawyers argued, he never would have entered into the prenuptial agreement.

Miss Minnelli and Mr. Gest married March 16, 2002, at a celebrity-studded ceremony with Michael Jackson as best man and Elizabeth Taylor as maid of honor. They separated in July 2003 and filed for divorce later that year.

Most recently, Miss Minnelli argued in court papers that Mr. Gest and her former bodyguard, M'Hammed Soumayah, who claims she forced him to have sex with her to keep his job, joined forces to attack and embarrass her publicly. She claimed the bodyguard, 56, breached a confidentiality agreement by giving Mr. Gest information about her.

Mr. Gest, 52, has filed his own $10 million lawsuit against Miss Minnelli, saying that during the 15 months they lived together after they were married she repeatedly beat him so badly that he suffered nerve damage.

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