Footage from a police helicopter of the allegedly illegal raid on Kim Dotcom's New Zealand mansion.

THE wife of internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has told how she fled the family mansion in the middle of the night — via golf cart — in order to dodge security.

Mona Dotcom has told New Zealand’s Woman’s Day that found leaving her five children behind was such a difficult decision that she’s has now moved back — to a guesthouse within her husband’s sprawling grounds.

The 25-year-old Filipina ex-model told the magazine: “We had tried to make it work but I couldn’t take it any more.”

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“It’s not that Kim is a bad man — he’s not. He’s intelligent and passionate and Kiwis can trust him … “

The move back to the guesthouse, just 50m from the $50 million mansion, ensures the children were close to both her and their father, she said.

The convicted hacker and insider-trader’s mansion was dramatically raided by New Zealand police in 2012. All of the family’s assets were seized and bank accounts locked following piracy complaints about his file-sharing site Megaupload.

Mona had held directorship roles in three of the millionaire’s main companies, but her status was revoked just days before her dramatic “escape”.

Despite the controversy, Mona insists her relationship with the 40-year-old, larger-than-life German was real.

“I know people said because I had my own bedroom, we were never together,” she told Woman’s Day.

“But I always wanted to sleep with Kim.

“We had an amazing life where I was his princess and when you’re 19 or 20, that’s cool. But then you grow up and want to explore the world and it doesn’t work any more.”

The family has been granted a $20,000-a-month “living expenses allowance” by the courts as legal proceedings against the controversial online file and sharing business owner plays out.

The battle over the family assets is set to continue next month.

Hollywood film and music studios are continuing their efforts to ensure the property and accounts remain frozen as Kim Dotcom uses every avenue of appeal to avoid extradition to the United States.

The US government alleges his Megaupload site was dedicated to copyright infringement which has cost the entertainment industry up to $550 million in lost revenue.

Mr Dotcom said the site was a simple cloud storage facility for users to share their files.

If extradited, he faces a 55-year-jail term for money laundering, racketeering and copyright theft.