Steven Darveniza had $6 million in assets when multi-millionaire father Bojan Darveniza died, court case of will dispute hears Steven Darveniza at the contested will hearing of his father Bojan Darveniza. THE son of a multi-millionaire Brisbane property investor claims he lost income as a pilot because his father pulled him out of school when he was 14 to work in the family business. But Steven Darveniza, 52, had assets totalling $6.7 million just after his father Bojan Darveniza died in 2010, leaving him nothing in his will, the Supreme Court has heard. The former commercial pilot is trying to claim a share of his father's estate in a family provision civil case and up to $2 million in lost income in a trade practices claim. Steven yesterday told the court he was rejected for jobs with major airlines because he left school after grade eight and did not complete his senior certificate. But Steven, 52, who flew until he was badly injured in a 2004 road accident, admitted he never went on to finish his senior certificate, despite later studying externally. Bojan Darveniza had two children, including Steven, with his first wife, three children with a de facto partner and three children with his second wife Xiao Hong Darveniza, now known as Jane. Bojan, then 58, married Jane, 28, in 1990, a year after she moved into his Brisbane home, and she inherited the bulk of his estate after he died in 2010, the court heard. Bojan had personal wealth of $40 million and controlled companies and trusts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the court was told. Bojan was a domineering, harsh disciplinarian to the children from his first two families and made them work before and after school in the family business, according to Steven's case. Steven has claimed Bojan, who made his fortune buying and renting out run-down properties, physically and emotionally abused him. But Steven also said over the years while he worked in various full-time jobs he also would spend up to 43 hours a week working for the family business. He said his father led him to believe one day he would inherit a quarter share in properties bought before his father's marriage to Jane. He said his father told him not to worry about airline superannuation, saying "the properties are your fund, all you need." In 1999 Bojan arranged for Steven to buy the Herston home, where he and his wife Deborah had lived rent-free, for $310,000 and three Brisbane industrial rental properties for $350,000. A September 2010 valuation revealed Steven's assets, including four properties, two BMW cars, cash and furniture, totalled $6.72 million, not including company shareholdings. The civil case is continuing.