They had been working together on campaigns in Texas, but after a severe falling out had been estranged ever since.
The two men, who banded together to help plunder the spoils of post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s before spectacularly falling out, have been fighting an epic legal battle here in the High Court of Justice for the past month.
But because western governments have been eager to spare the new government's blushes, the fall-out has been limited.
The resulting fall-out has been considerable and you can get up to speed with the background here.
Over a matter of weeks in 1998, and without telling HIH, Goldman Sachs, FAI's adviser, revised sharply downwards its valuation of the insurer, from A$200m to A$20m.The fall-out has been immense.
But in a country where the prime minister cannot be forced to answer to parliament and where attention is now focussed mainly on two parliamentary censure motions that could topple the Berlusconi administration next week, the political fall-out has been limited.
The footage and fall-out have been raked to within an inch of their lives for clues as to the cause of the disagreement, the front-running theory so far being that Jay Z wanted to go to Rihanna's after party (Rihanna of all people! My dear) and that Solange piled in on her sister's behalf, all the better to persuade him to get his sorry arse home.
I did 10-hour shifts with only a half-hour break and no rubber gloves, so all my fingernails fell out What has been your biggest disappointment?
The initial fall out may have been the result of a perfect storm but ongoing circumstances, such as geography and lifestyle differences, are still conspiring to maintain social distance between you.
The two, however, had a subsequent falling out and Wade has been describing Sall as an apprentice who has not yet taken in "the lessons of his mentor".
However, news that the foreskin has fallen out of fashion has been warmly greeted by the creators of the Circumstraint (a device designed to restrain a baby while his dick is being cut).
