Now this story has a sort of Parent Trap ending! Phil Collins third wife was the Swiss national, Orianne Cevey, who he married in 1999. Two kids and 9 years later, their marriage ending, sending the singer into a depression. Their divorce had a cost of $47 million, which was a lot more than their over the top 3 day wedding and, at the time, the most expensive divorce in Britain history.
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During their separation, Cevey remarried (and then divorced) the investment banker, Charles Mejjati and Collins dated the news anchor, Dana Tyler for 3 years. Then in 2016, they announced that they are back together and are even living together!
Craig McCaw originally founded McCaw Cellular, and then sold his company to AT&T for a hefty sum of $12.6 billion. At the time, he and his wife Wendy Petrak, had been married 21 years. Years later, in 1995, McCaw and Petrak divorced due to ‘personal differences’.
There was a division of money, as well as other luxuries like properties, boats, etc. In the end, Petrak was given $460 million. Though the settlement wasn’t small, McCaw had little financial issues as he proceeded to found Clearwire, a company that eventually merged with Sprint Nextel. Not bad, right?
After 24 years of marriage, the Continental Resources CEO and his wife divorced and it certainly was costly. I guess Harold and Sue Ann Hamm never had a prenup or if they did, it wasn’t a good one! Hamm had an estimated net worth of $11 billion and the divorce settlement ended up being $1 billion.
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Mr. Hamm had to pay his ex wife $7 million each month until it was paid off.
The divorce of Dmitry Rybolovlev and Elena Rybolovleva is the most steeply-priced divorce thus far. They split after 26 years of marriage, and Dmitry had to pay her $4.5 billion, half of his estimated $8 billion fortune.
Dmitry is a is a Russian businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He appealed the agreement and in June 2015, the billionaire managed to change the agreement into a much smaller sum of 564 million Swiss francs.
Long before Kim K and Kanye were an item, the reality star married New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries in a lavish, multi-million dollar wedding that was televised and watched by an estimate 5 million people.
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The marriage didn’t last, obviously, and the glamorous couple went their separate ways a mere 72 days after tying the knot. Humphries claimed at the time that the whole marriage was a sham, and that he was used for a publicity stunt for Keeping Up with the Kardashians. He did, however, turn down a $10 million offer from the Kardashians. Guess the eventual settlement was a lot costlier for the reality star.
