Businessman and actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband, Raj Kundra, is in a legal soup involving him being accused of making pornographic content. The latest details involved the Mumbai crime branch raiding one of his properties and finding out server and over 70 porn films shot by his PA.

He is going to be presented in the court today and statements of actresses Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Pandey also convey how they blamed him for misusing their legal contracts and content they shot with his media company.

Amidst him trending across social media, an old interview with Filmfare has surfaced where he speaks about his roots and how hating poverty forced him to become rich. "I come from a humble background. My dad moved to London 45 years ago and worked as a bus conductor whereas my mother worked in a factory. We never had it easy. I've been a self-made man since I left college at the age of 18. Whenever Shilpa checks me for spending carelessly, I tell her I have no qualms about enjoying the money I have made. My anger pushed me. I hated poverty so much that I wanted to become rich. And I did make a difference to my life. Shilpa respected me for that as she’s self-made too,” he said.

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Raj was a London-based businessman when he met Shilpa and fell in love with her. He was married before and divorced his first wife before settling down in Mumbai with Shilpa. Earlier yesterday, reports of him bribing the crime branch with Rs 25 lakh came up in an email exchange record found by the police. The man who sent these mails was Yash Thakur, another accused in the case. However, the claims were dubbed to be too raw and naïve and weren’t concrete as a proof. The police have already cleared the air that no involvement of his wife Shilpa has been observed in this case. 

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