A federal court filing in Fort Lauderdale carries what no broker, no registry and no title record in the United States carries: the name of the company that answers for Herbert Wigwe’s second yacht. Flyhopco, LLC, trading as Bradford Marine, sued over unpaid boatyard invoices, and its verified complaint states that ADA NTA, LLC is the legal owner or charterer of the second defendant vessel, M/V Lady D, a.k.a. Wegu the Great, one 48-foot Riva motor vessel carrying two names into court.
The pleading draws the whole fleet in four strokes. Grosvenor Marine Ventures Ltd of the British Virgin Islands is, it says, the legal owner of the bigger yacht, M/Y Chitochi. ADA NTA, LLC is the legal owner or charterer of Lady D. The beneficial owner of both vessels, the complaint states, is believed to have been Herbert Wigwe himself. The yard’s claim later entered his Miami-Dade probate as a creditor’s claim of $234,079.65, of which $54,906.36 is Lady D’s own share, and the Florida case was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice on 7 February 2025 and closed three days later.
Chitochi, the 108-foot Custom Line, lived in the open by yacht standards. She was registered in the British Virgin Islands, she carried one name through her whole life in the Wigwe fleet, and her transponder still broadcasts that name, her BVI flag and her MMSI 378112918 from Turkish waters, where she now sails renamed CELINE under a buyer no record names. Lady D, the smaller boat, was wrapped in layers Chitochi never carried.
The hull is real and fully identified. She is a Riva Dolceriva built in September 2022 by Ferretti, hull identification number XFARRD25I223, and Florida issued her certificate of title number 149715067 on 13 February 2023. The title record shows one owner from that date and no transfer since. It withholds the owner’s name. It records no lien against her.
The two names were already together while he lived. The complaint records that Lady D’s long-term dockage at Bradford began in January 2024, and that the temporary insurance binder delivered to the yard at that start carried her as M/V Lady D a/k/a Wegu the Great and placed her with ADA NTA. The same papers name Captain James Ryan Butz as the operator of both vessels, and record that he signed both dockage contracts as captain and authorised representative of the two owning companies. Herbert Wigwe died weeks later, on 9 February 2024, with his wife Doreen and his son Chizi, in the California helicopter crash.
She was never documented with the United States Coast Guard. No official number exists for her hull, no MMSI was ever assigned to her, and Florida’s own law keeps documented vessels out of its titling system entirely, so the state title that names nobody is the only title paper she has anywhere. A searcher who starts from her name finds a brokerage listing. A searcher who starts from her owner finds nothing.
The company that answers for her completes the wrapping. The complaint calls ADA NTA, LLC a foreign limited liability company, gives it the same three Florida mailing addresses it gives Grosvenor, at Bal Harbour, Hollywood and Sunny Isles Beach, and never names the jurisdiction where it was formed. SecretsReporters ran ADA NTA, LLC through the Florida registry and the registries of Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming, Texas, New York, New Jersey, California, Georgia and North Carolina, and through the global company database. No formation record, no registered agent and no officer exists for it in any of them. The company exists in the federal complaint and nowhere else on record.
The second name carries its own weight. Wegu is the name of Herbert Wigwe’s youngest child, recorded in the Lagos estate pleadings over his will. The boat the market knows carries the child’s name. The yard that kept her billed her as Lady D.
The disguise has outlived the man. The sale listings that surfaced in 2025 offer her as Wegu the Great alone, photographed in May and June 2025, first at $2,000,000 and then cut by $201,000 to $1,799,000, through International Yacht Corporation, the same brokerage that sold Chitochi. The name Lady D appears in no listing, no title record and no registry entry. It survives in an insurer’s binder and in the boatyard’s debt claim. Her Florida registration expired on 30 June 2025, and no sale of the boat is recorded anywhere.
One hull, two names, a title that names no owner, and an owning company that no registry on record has ever heard of. The only papers that hold her two names together are a temporary insurance binder written in the last weeks of her beneficial owner’s life and a boatyard’s unpaid claim filed after his death.
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