re: the money
I think (a) Stephanie is very good at making other pay and (b) there is an annuity set up by her father.
She and her mom cry poor that there is no money coming in for the chateau but does not consider investments and her other properties as fodder for the chateau.
Narcs are VERY SMART... They craft lies, keep track of them, manipulate. They just think they are above the law, they can get away with it, or manipulate their way out and this is what trips them up.
Back in the Sept 2020 thread, one of the posters @rasberrybrullee who does not appear to be on her anymore detailed that he suspected the money came from the sale of the large retirement home that Derek Jarvis and Isabelle Jarvis (nee Biggio) owned & ran. It specialized in Alzheimer's so would fetch a lot per the commentator.
By Stephanie Jarvis words (which one should always be skeptical of), she got around 600K pounds (300 pounds she used to restore the chateau and 300 to buy a new London flat). She used the sale of her first London flat (This was either gifted by her parents earlier or her ex-husband divorce money).
I am jogging together pieces of info so feel free to correct me on this, but Stephanie Jarvis said she moved in at 12? which would be 1987 and they sold around 2004-5. It would have appreciated very nicely over that time and likely sold for millions (Plural) of pounds.
So there was plenty more money beyond the 600k given to Stephanie to buy the Framlinham small house and then set up an annuity for both Stephanie on her own and then Isabelle/Derek.
Also another commentator said that Isabelle maiden name was Biggio and her father was a French Coronel before and after WWII and the family had a lot of money.
No idea how to confirm this but adding it to the mix. In the USA they post property sales records? Is this available in the UK - to see the value that the Alzheimer's center grew over 20 years? These types of centers are also very lucrative because they charge a large cost of care.