A former beauty queen in a bitter divorce battle over her partner's £6million fortune has told the High Court she has no intention of getting a job and is on the lookout for husband number three.

Ekaterina Parfenova, 42, who was voted Miss World University in 1990, is fighting for £2.6million from her second husband Richard Fields - who is planning to marry wife number six.

The American lawyer today revealed he has bought an antique diamond engagement ring for his current girlfriend and has leased a Porsche for her, but has not yet asked her to marry him.

His ex-wife wants him to pay her £750,000 a year so she can live in a luxury £5.5million home near Kensington Palace in central London.

Ekaterina Parfenova, 42, who was voted Miss World University in 1990, is fighting for £2.6million from her second husband Richard Fields (both pictured outside High Court today)

Miss Parfenova, who speaks Russian, French and English and has worked as a translator in the past, was quizzed about her job prospects by Stephen Trowell QC for 59-year-old Mr Fields.

He asked her: 'Do you intend to work after today?' to which she replied 'No.'

She added: 'I am a very good wife. I will try to find a husband.'

Mr Trowell said: 'You are only 42 and you have a lifetime ahead of you.'

She told the High Court she wanted to spend as much time with her children as possible over the next few years to watch them grow up.

When Mr Trowell said she had a 'duty' to exercise her earning capacity and should try to find some sort of work rather than relying on her husband to keep her, she replied: 'I will certainly try.'

The couple married in 2002 and had two children together before separating in March 2013.

Lawyer Richard Fields' (pictured) company manages a hedge fund for top law firms in America and he is thought to earn £1.3million a year

But they did not receive a decree absolute and have been battling over Mr Fields' £6million fortune ever since. His company manages a hedge fund for top law firms in America.

Mr Fields told the court he has been in a 'serious relationship' with a law professor for the past year and is planning to propose.

She knows he bought the engagement ring in January but has not seen it.

He told the judge: 'I would like to marry her.I have not asked her and I have not given her the ring.

'I thought I would be confident of her answer. But I do not know what her answer would be now.'

He said following the bitter row over money with his fifth wife: 'I do not know whether she will say yes or no.'

Lewis Marks QC for Miss Parfenova said that far from being the 'gold digger' he had painted his wife to be, it was he who held 'the financial purse strings and drove the style of living.'

Mr Fields denied the accusation by Mr Marks that he 'uses money both to attract and demonstrate affection for someone.'

He replied: 'I totally disagree that is not true.I am a generous man to a fault. I am not materialistic and in the past I have been too generous.'

He admitted keeping two Porsches in the US city where his new girlfriend lives and keeps a Jaguar for his use in Miami.

His new partner also had the use of his American Express platinum card.

Miss Parfenov and Mr Fields were warned by the judge to come to an agreement after racking up more than £1million in legal bills.

She said she needs £414,000 a year for herself and her two children.

Mr Fields had previously offered her £2.2million for a home - saying she should live in Battersea or Fulham where house prices are cheaper - and £230,00-a-year for her and their children.

But his estranged wife said she has her heart set on a £5.5million property in Kensington, which she said requires a £3million mortgage costing £120,000 a year.

The remainder of the £750,000 sum is made up by assets from Mr Fields' business to which she claims she is entitled.

Miss Parfenova, 42, (pictured both) told the court she has no intention of getting a job, pictured (left) outside High Court

Former beauty star Ekaterina Parfenova seen here with Sarah Ferguson and Princess Beatrice

The former beauty queen (pictured left as a winner in 1990) is locked in a bitter divorce battle over her partner's £6million fortune

Her counsel Lewis Marks QC told the judge: 'The husband's case is that my client married him for his money and he indulged her during the marriage. He said she constantly made demands for jewellery he could not afford.'

Top Family Division judge Mr Justice Holman has made repeated attempts to get the couple to settle.

In a hearing today, he said: 'It is still not too late' to stop 'this terrible destructive conflict.'

Mr Fields is managing director and 100 per cent shareholder of Juridica Asset Management Ltd., said to be one of the most successful litigation funding firms in the world.

Based mostly in Miami but also with a home in New York he is said to earn £1.3million a year, but the wife thinks it might be as high as £1.9million.

Miss Parfenova previously told the court how she felt 'cheated' when Mr Fields closed down a company in which she owned 22.5 per cent of the shares.

Mr Fields went on to set up a new company where he owned all the shares, doing exactly the same work, leaving her with shares in a worthless shell company.