Behind the billion-dollar facade, an ugly fight brewing at Miami Beach’s renowned Fontainebleau pitted owners of the tony property against a dying woman at the center of a federal investigation into financial fraud.

In the latest twist in the yearslong litigation, a ruling by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Bronwyn Miller granted the woman’s estate a motion for attorney fees, putting the Fontainebleau on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars.