Top Five Celebrity Splits
Top Five Celebrity Splits
Splashed across our tabloids and gossip mags on a weekly basis, lies the latest celebrities selling their wedding photos claiming they have found ‘the one’ and that they are madly in love.
A year later, the ‘loved-up’ couple sells their story claiming they hate each others guts, calling each other every name under the sun and demanding £50,000,000, five houses, two cars and the cat through a costly divorce settlement.
Here are our top five most expensive celebrity divorce settlements. How cheerful!
Kevin Costner and Cindy Silva
The celebrity couple were married for 16 years, between 1978 and 1994, and had three children together; but their split was anything but sweet for the actor. Silva left the marriage with $80 million as she was married to the actor during the peak of his career, with the star earning $50 million in 1991 alone.
Harrison Ford and Melissa Mathison
After twenty-one years together, Ford and Mathison called it a day in 2004. Mathison walked away with $85million and apparently a cut of Harrison’s future earnings for the movies he made while they were still married. These movies included two Star Wars films and three Indiana Jones films, plus many more.
Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving
Famous filmmaker Spielberg split with wife of just four years, in 1989. The divorce proved rather costly for the director even though the couple had set up a pre-nup agreement protecting his wealth. According to USA Today, Irving was able to challenge the pre-nup and paid out $100 million, their split the third biggest pay out in celebrity history.
Neil Diamond and Marcia Murphy
The two wed in 1969 and spent a ‘blissful’ 27 years together, but by the end the couple decided to call it a day and Diamond paid out $150 million or roughly, $5.5 million for each year they were together.
Michael Jordan and Juanita
Both USA and Forbes reported that the basketball star Jordan made the largest payout in any celebrity divorce in history.
It was reported that the former Chicago Bulls star was forced to pay his ex wife, Juanita, $168 million, for their 18-year marriage, when the split was finalised in 2007.
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