Former major champion Helen Alfredsson is demanding 4 million Swedish kronor from her younger sister Annica, the latest twist in a family dispute that has now produced two lawsuits in the space of months, Aftonbladet reported. The demand stems from a loan Helen Alfredsson granted Annica four years ago to buy a house, and it arrives after Alfredsson sued her ex-husband, hockey legend Kent “Kenta” Nilsson, for 4 million kronor plus interest over the sale of an apartment.
The two demands are the same size — 4 million kronor each — but they point in opposite directions. In the settled villa dispute with Nilsson, Alfredsson was the one ordered to pay, shelling out 3.5 million kronor to her ex-husband.
The loan with no security behind it
According to Aftonbladet, the dispute with Annica Alfredsson centers on a 4 million kronor loan Helen Alfredsson approved for her sister four years ago in connection with a house purchase. Annica Alfredsson says the money was lent interest-free under a promissory note the two signed, with ten years to repay. Helen Alfredsson disputes that arrangement and is now demanding the money back immediately.
“My sister has lied to me,” the former golf star told the local paper Kungsbacka-Posten, according to Aftonbladet.
The crux of Helen Alfredsson’s claim is collateral. She says that when she checked the property register, it was Annica’s husband who stood as owner of the house, and there was no mortgage registered against it. “I lent out four million kronor, but when I checked the title deed, it’s her husband who stands on the house and there was no mortgage either. That means I have no security if it were sold,” she told Kungsbacka-Posten, as reported by Aftonbladet.
Annica Alfredsson, for her part, reacted with disbelief when the new lawsuit arrived. “I really didn’t think it was true when a new summons came,” she told the local newspaper, according to Aftonbladet.
Two sisters, two lawsuits, sixteen years apart
The money fight is not the first court battle between the sisters. Aftonbladet reports that Helen and Annica Alfredsson were in a legal dispute 16 years ago and then broke off contact for more than a decade. They became friends again in 2021, but now they are no longer speaking to each other, the local paper wrote.
Helen Alfredsson’s career gives the family drama a public backdrop. She won the Chevron Championship, a major tournament, in 1993 and played on the LPGA Tour from 1992 to 2013.
The separate 4 million kronor claim against Kent Nilsson
Last month, in October, Helen Alfredsson sued Kent “Kenta” Nilsson for several million kronor in a dispute connected to an apartment sale, Aftonbladet reported. Hurbra.se put the figure at 4 million kronor plus interest and detailed the mechanics of that claim: the couple took a joint loan of 8 million kronor in 2018 with the apartment as security, and the property later sold for 26 million kronor. Alfredsson argues that the entire 8 million kronor debt was charged against her share of the sale proceeds even though she should only have borne half — a difference of exactly the 4 million kronor she now demands. Hurbra.se cautioned that the figures come from Alfredsson’s own court filing and that it is not legally established that the debt was allocated incorrectly or that Nilsson owes the money.
That new lawsuit came only months after another financial conflict between Alfredsson and Nilsson was resolved. The earlier case concerned the couple’s villa in Onsala, south of Gothenburg. They married in 2005, divorced in 2016, later resumed the relationship as cohabiting partners, and separated again in 2023. The dispute turned on whether the villa fell under division-of-property rules for cohabiting couples; Alfredsson claimed a cohabitation agreement excluded the house but could not produce it, and Nilsson denied any such agreement existed. The case was decided in April 2026: Alfredsson kept the villa, previously valued at around 20 million kronor, but had to pay Nilsson 3.5 million kronor, according to Hurbra.se.
Two disputes, two different properties
The two cases against Nilsson involve different assets and different legal questions, Hurbra.se noted: the settled one concerned a villa in Onsala and a disputed cohabitation agreement, while the new one concerns how a joint debt was divided after an apartment sale. Nothing in the reported material shows that Alfredsson is using the new claim to recover the 3.5 million kronor she paid in the villa case, and the two amounts should not be treated as offsetting the same debt.
| Dispute | Amount at stake | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sister Annica — house loan | 4 million kronor demanded immediately | Filed; no ruling reported |
| Ex-husband Nilsson — apartment sale | 4 million kronor plus interest claimed | Filed in October; no ruling reported |
| Ex-husband Nilsson — Onsala villa | 3.5 million kronor paid by Alfredsson | Decided April 2026 |
What the record shows so far
For now, every figure in the sister dispute comes from the sisters’ own accounts to Kungsbacka-Posten as relayed by Aftonbladet: Helen Alfredsson’s assertion that the loan lacks security, and Annica’s claim of a signed, interest-free promissory note with a ten-year repayment window. No court ruling on the sister case has been reported. The Nilsson apartment claim likewise rests on Alfredsson’s filing as described by Hurbra.se, with no judgment known.
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