Steven Spielberg, Kevin Costner and Harrison Ford are among those honoured with the title of “Most Costly Divorce” according to Forbes. I bet they don’t hand out little gold statues for that award. Perhaps the three of them should make a movie together to raise back the funds they lost to their ex-spouses.
Spielberg, who divorced first wife Amy Irving in 1989 at a cost of $100 million, was only beaten to the top of the poll by basketball legend Michael Jordan and singer Neil Diamond, at numbers one and two respectively.
Forbes speculates Jordan’s pending divorce from his wife of 18 years, Juanita Vanoy, will set the former NBA star back by more than $150 million – the cost of Diamond’s failed 1969 marriage to Marcia Murphey.
Ford ranks at number four after having paid an estimated $85 million to first wife Melissa Mathison, while Costner’s settlement with wife of 16 years, Cindy Silva in 1994, earned him fifth place.
See this is the problem with a Pre-Nup. If you say you want one, you are basically telling your wife to be you dont want her to WHEN you divorce. Or that you dont trust her.
Or that you are a celebrity.
These guys, like myself likely thought this girl was forever, and in most cases these are not weekend romances! But the reality of Hollywood is that it seems that sooner or later you are going to split up.
Or you deal with that and gladly hand over half your shit when it finally does come to that.
But realistically it isnt Hollywood that is the problem. When you look at the statistics that say 32% of couples end up in divorce (though urban legend quotes this number as high as 50%). Not celebrity couples, just people. We just hear about the celebrity breakups more because we hear about those people more.
And THANK YOU Kevin Federline for proving that its not always the man that loses his shirt in a divorce. Its a good thing too, because you were nobody before the wedding and you are the same guy now. Just with more of Britney’s money.
I’m all for just screwing, both parties getting their jollies and then heading separate ways. Think about it, one of the biggest reasons for divorce is that he or she, gets an itch in their pants, and wants, in her case, a different pork sword, in his case a new place to put that sword. Someone once said “Variety is the spice of life” these Hollywood people are getting shit loads of “spice”.
I think this is a good warning for Doug. Cover your ass man.
>>California is supposedly close to a 90% divorce rate, but they stopped collecting their statistics years ago.
Huh? 90% of what? You can’t really think 90% of the people in CA are divorced? Or that 90% of marriages end in divorce? Maybe people that divorce and remarry are more likley to get devorced, and that might bump the stats up, but that would be unfair since it’s the same damn people.
Statistic are a tricky thing.
Well, his price is gonna shoot up now that 300 has made a wee bit of change. He’s got to be at least a millionaire, but he’s not getting 15 mil a picture, either. Enough cash for me, though! Get that MONEY!!!!!
Kristina babe, I agree – if I can get away with it, I won’t get married, evah. I’m okay with living in sin (if you think of it as sin).
So! Gerry’s fair game, eh? You might as well give up, I’m going to Scotland this summer =) (As if he’d be there when I am! Lolness.) Hm, how much do you think he’s worth now?
But getting an Oscar and then not marrying, isn’t that a bit Halle Berry?
Hey, what about Donald Trump, guys? Is there a wager going on about when he’s gonna divorce? I want in.
I’m pretty sure this list isn’t the top divorce settlements.Steve Morgan paid out £100 million over this side of the pond (that’s around $200 million for those with a somewhat suspect economic policy..ahem)
Furthermore, I’m pretty sure Roman Abramovich’s settlement is going to be the biggest in history (he’s worth £11 billion!!!!!)… maybe this one hasn’t made it across the pond either yet (or poss the iron curtain!)
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/10/16/divorce.shtml
Since divorce statistics vary from state to state and country to country, 50% isn’t an urban legend. Only 32% of first marriages may end in divorce, after that it skyrockets. California is supposedly close to a 90% divorce rate, but they stopped collecting their statistics years ago.
Not if I get him first:) Yummy!!!!!!!!
And when I become an Oscar winner, I’ll never get married. I don’t even want to live with the guy. Why can’t we just screw and then go home?
Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em..
But apparently K-Fed is only getting $1 mil from Britney, due to the iron-clad prenup. Ha! He prolly have spent all that money by now.
I’m telling you, when I marry Gerry Butler, I’ll sign whatev prenup he wants me to, in one condition – he’s got to do me 5 times a day.