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The Business of Divorce: When Settlements Hit the Billions.
Divorce is a personal matter, but when it involves the world’s wealthiest individuals, it becomes a massive financial event. These 25 settlements represent some of the largest wealth transfers in modern history.
Does seeing these figures change your perspective on high-net-worth estate planning?
Here are the Top 25 most expensive divorce settlements in history: 👇

💸💔 Top 25 Most Expensive Divorce Settlements in History

1. 🇺🇸 Bill Gates & Melinda French Gates (2021) - $76 billion

2. 🇺🇸 Jeff Bezos & MacKenzie Scott (2019) - $38 billion

3. 🇺🇸/🇫🇷 Alec Wildenstein & Jocelyn Wildenstein (1999) - $3.8 billion

4. 🇺🇸/🇦🇺 Rupert Murdoch & Anna Murdoch Mann (1999) - ~$1.7 billion

5. 🇺🇸 Bill Gross & Sue Gross (2017) - ~$1.3 billion

6. 🇬🇧 Bernie Ecclestone & Slavica Ecclestone (2009) - ~$1.2 billion

7. 🇺🇸 Steve Wynn & Elaine Wynn (2010) - ~$1 billion

8. 🇰🇷 Chey Tae-won & Roh Soh-yeong (2024) - ~$1 billion

9. 🇺🇸 Harold Hamm & Sue Ann Arnall (2015) - $974.8 million

10. 🇸🇦 Adnan Khashoggi & Soraya Khashoggi (1980) - ~$874 million

11. 🇦🇪 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum & Princess Haya (2019) - ~$730 million

12. 🇺🇸 Tiger Woods & Elin Nordegren (2010) - ~$710 million

13. 🇷🇺 Dmitry Rybolovlev & Elena Rybolovleva (2014) - ~$604 million

14. 🇺🇸 Craig McCaw & Wendy McCaw (1997) - >$460 million

15. 🇺🇸/🇦🇺 Mel Gibson & Robyn Moore (2011) - $425 million

16. 🇺🇸 Robert L. Johnson & Sheila Crump Johnson (2002) - $400 million

17. 🇺🇸 Sergey Brin & Nicole Shanahan (2023) - ≥$360 million

18. 🇷🇺 Roman Abramovich & Irina Malandina (2007) - ~$300 million

19. 🇨🇦 Charles Edgar Fipke & Marlene Fipke (2000) - ~$200 million

20. 🇺🇸 Michael Polsky & Maya Polsky (2007) - $184 million

21. 🇺🇸 Michael Jordan & Juanita Vanoy (2006) - $168 million

22. 🇷🇺 Boris Berezovsky & Galina Besharova (2010) - ~$160 million

23. 🇭🇰 Samathur Li Kin-kan & Florence Tsang Chiu-wing (2011) - ~$157 million

24. 🇺🇸 Neil Diamond & Marcia Murphey (1995) - ~$150 million

25. 🇺🇸 Frank McCourt & Jamie McCourt (2011) - ~$130 million

Source - Wikipedia

Note - Figures are estimated due to private settlements & may not be accurate; no divorce settlement in 2025 exceeded existing records. Figures may vary by sources.

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Happy new year to everyone especially the married ones as far as this post is concerned. I pray there won't be divorce in your marriage. You will enjoy your marriage by God's grace

Fantastic
Even the world's richest women...
Women and eating from where they didn't sow, and taking what they don't deserve nor work for na 5&6.
I don't blame dem sha, I blame the weak and puccie judicial system of the west that's enabling all these rubbish.

Bill Gates doubles the second.

With all the riches and ladies still file for divorce. What could be the reason or motive for filing for divorce?

This one’s na big money oh.

Sometimes, Love will tear you apart. Lol

This is seriously huge.
Ok

Sh*ts like this can not happen in Africa, after my divorce, I vow never to remarry again, I just wanna be there for my kids and enjoy my rest of mind

Brothers, please don't use this to relate to yourselves, this is not your tax bracket 😭

Some of y'all are about to see red and go fight Iya Chukwudi over the N60k upkeep you send every 3 months and expect her to use it to feed 5 children.

Some of y'all are about to be incensed about how much Rupert Murdoch gave his wife and go fight Mummy Idowu, Taiwo and Kenny over the N10k you gave her (with a sprinkle of insult) to do Xmas for your kids.

Abeg don't use Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, who know what their wives contributed to their lives positivy, and live in countries where women are valued, as your rallying cry over "Women are evil!!"

🤣🤣🤣

Money can't buy love guys.
Just do you.
These daughters of Eve, nothing satisfies them

Try it in naija and and regret it,cos you'll not get penny


Oyibo really goofed on that divorce set up

Some women see marriage as a poverty alleviation scheme

Donvictor2015:
With all the riches and ladies still file for divorce. What could be the reason or motive for filing for divorce?

Everything is not about money

No Nigerian on the list
We no dey settle anything

Africans we nur dey divorce dey share properties, we dey carry our kaya and waka

DrMB:
The Business of Divorce: When Settlements Hit the Billions.
Divorce is a personal matter, but when it involves the world’s wealthiest individuals, it becomes a massive financial event. These 25 settlements represent some of the largest wealth transfers in modern history.
Does seeing these figures change your perspective on high-net-worth estate planning?
Here are the Top 25 most expensive divorce settlements in history: 👇

Oomoh, men don see shege no be small. They don’t love us. They’re after our wealth and life. Fear them.

Why is the majority in the US?

This is something Africans must not copy.

Man go toil dey and night only to be stripped of his hard earned money by the court, most especially in a divorce he didn't initiate.

The game is rigged against men.

My Nigeria people no fit dey here

All I have to say is I see leeches

dollytino4real:
Africans we nur dey divorce dey share properties, we dey carry our kaya and waka

Yea na!
when na na only to born pikin una come to offer.

Americans really get money 🤑🤑🤑 oo

Donvictor2015:
With all the riches and ladies still file for divorce. What could be the reason or motive for filing for divorce?

1. No satisfactory knacking

No wonder tiger woods went under the radar..

BodyCount:
Fantastic
Even the world's richest women...
Women and eating from where they didn't sow, and taking what they don't deserve nor work for na 5&6.
I don't blame dem sha, I blame the weak and puccie judicial system of the west that's enabling all these rubbish.

😂😂😂😂
Cho cho cho cho
The wives of Gates and Bezos played prominent roles in their success
They never complained about the divorce payout

COMRADES, Americans no get sense I swear to God, look at the list, they dominated it

If you are not rich and you marry a billionaire divorce is another way to become a billionaire

Exousiang01:
Money can't buy love guys.
Just do you.
These daughters of Eve, nothing satisfies them

On the contrary, money does buy love.

Problem is modern man seems to have not realized they can no longer treat women as their personal possessions.

Buy love and be savvy enough to recognize it might not last. That's to save ya fragile hearts from cracking to pieces when madam decides she's had enough of being companion with you. Then move on to buy from the next woman.

Sign contract of marriage if you like but be prepared to part with ya hard earned osusu.

Some Nigerian bloke wey no get anything fit dey run mouth but get even just one house and small osusu and make you meet woman wey know wazup, you go cry tire when court go judge una matter... You go know say even some broke guys are made to pay something for child upkeep let alone you wey get small osusu... Yes, even in modern Nigeria.

Court never just hear ya case.

DrMB:
The Business of Divorce: When Settlements Hit the Billions.
Divorce is a personal matter, but when it involves the world’s wealthiest individuals, it becomes a massive financial event. These 25 settlements represent some of the largest wealth transfers in modern history.
Does seeing these figures change your perspective on high-net-worth estate planning?
Here are the Top 25 most expensive divorce settlements in history: 👇

Elegbede Fernandez own noh dey there🧐🧐🧐.

Donvictor2015:
With all the riches and ladies still file for divorce. What could be the reason or motive for filing for divorce?

are you blind ?
you didnt see the reason?

what pained me is that the one of jeff bezon is ugly

TOPCRUISE:
If you marry a billionaire divorce is another way to become a billionaire

That is if the Billionaire is stupid enough not to sign a prenuptial agreement before the marriage