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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: 👇

Clear evidence that the men involved are not as smart as their bank accounts seems to show. A man who cannot keep a marriage going for reasons including adultery and inability to control his emotions is not a smart man but a fool of gargantuan proportion. See MKO Abiola's outcome and the disarray his family has since exemplified.

May your name never be on this list.

Someone calling it blessing, so.e will call it a curse.

I feel it's a curse. God hates divorce, so it's not a blessing

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.

Bro it's a very shocking and very crazy stunt going on in the West.

I swear how dare anyone telling me to settle one yeye pedin my hard earned money? Any Africa man that does it deserve serious mental check up.

Why would I gave her the money is what I don't understand? anyway I dey my dey for my naija if any yeye thing try such prank with me e go do am like movie.

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: 👇

💸💔 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.

The money Tiger Woods paid to Elin Nordegren after their divorce in 2010 worth $710 million was huge and I though at that time that the settlement was too much Just when I thought I had seen it all, Jeff Bezos too got divorced from his former wife in 2019 and then the big whale of them all, Bill Gates paid to his ex at higher amount worth billions of USD

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

Ever read or heard the story of a woman once married to an extremely wealthy man who had no time for her. One day the man suggested a holiday in Dubai and flew over in his private jet only to abandon the wife in Dubai when he quickly thought to dash to China for a quick business meeting. Once done with his meeting in China he just flew back to Nigeria and continued with his life! It was a call from his wife still waiting for him in Dubai that reminded him he was supposed to be on a romantic vacation with his wife in Dubai!! He Had forgotten her in Dubai!!!. Needless to say, the woman filed for divorce and left. No woman except the Prostitute will be contented with being used as an item to decorate the home!

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

Selfishness

Pathetically, no woman on that list that paid her husband after divorce. They're all women who took from men using marriage as the trap.

Gender equality and Feminism are the two most disgusting and driest jokes of the century.

always247:
what pained me is that the one of jeff bezon is ugly

My brother, Jeff Bezos married the ugliest woman (now his ex) in the world. Baba get very poor taste I tell you...

You will hardly find a woman filing for divorce against a broke man or against a man they're doing better than.

But when the man is wealthy, they want half of his wealth.

YoungLionken:
My brother, Jeff Bezos married the ugliest woman (now his ex) in the world. Baba get very poor taste I tell you...

Most times, especially for those wealthy men, it's not about beauty. It's about who they foolishly think can understand them and can reason on the same frequency (knowing that they hardly have sense) and some of them hardly get someone who really loves them when they're already stupendously wealthy.

At that point, they're not seeing the red flags, it just appears they're loved only for them to play the joker when they feel the time is right.

Fear who no fear women!

mamatayour:
This one’s na big money oh.

Most richest women are as a result of divorce

How many African Man did u see there ?

[quote author=tiswell post=137985109]Try it in naija and and regret it,cos you'll not get penny

And when it is the woman who brings wealth to the marriage? Should she also keep all and give nothing if a divorce regrettably occurs?

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: 👇

Money na water

Akwamkpuruamu:
Some women see marriage as a poverty alleviation scheme

Yeah 90% of the ones in poverty. The rest who are not in poverty see it as a wealth elevation scheme.

Mama Ik and Mama Ik -5000

Nastrademus:
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

Just thinking,
what if you fall critically ill ,
who will Drive/Move you around to see Doctors from hospital to hospital?

i have been look for answer to this Question for some years now...
i have found non...

that why i asked you...

LibertyRep:
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.

Unfortunately,
Na MEN still made that Judicial Law Againt MEN to favour Women

TimiofAbuja:
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

Na some talk that. Even if there os divorce the lady no go see shehee. Did you see any African on the list.? Ei get why..Lol

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

Take away sharing of marital properties & spousal support from marital laws. You will see that the rate & choice for divorce will reduce from women.

They see a loophole created to their advantage, they gladly take advantage of it. It will limit their entitlement mentality.

OvertheTop:
Unfortunately,
Na MEN still made that Judicial Law Again MEN to favour Women

Unfortunately, those men don't see it coming. The same way, they seek men in power, lobby around them with hope to pass a *Reserved seat for women* in National Assembly.

The question herein, those countries with Female president in Latin America, Tanzania, Liberia was it reserved for them? Political power isn't to be handled over for emotional reasons.

That idea of reserved seat for women is gender bias, against democratic principle and belief.

If the NA choose to fall for it, then let them reserved seat for men, women and politicians as the last gender.

[quote author=BlueEyedBabe post=137988515][/quote]very very rare cases

I no see Any Nigerian Name . Abi we no they settled our wife after divorce?

Onegai:
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!!"

🤣🤣🤣

Those first two divorce and some there are very long relationships. The wealth was acquired mostly when they married. So some deserves the money , not all those one that came when the man was already made

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

dat is y we don't divorce we moveee

dollytino4real:
dat is y we don't divorce we moveee

and we marry another
e no hard

tiswell:
very very rare cases

Rare maybe... however as a woman takes time out of her career to have children and raise them, women will naturally have less earning potential in their lifetime.

I lost 2 years of earning with my first child. 6 months with my second child, because then I earned more money than my husband and needed to go back to work sooner.

IMO divorce settlement should be a clear 50/50 split of assets, like my own divorce, no matter who earns more or contributed more financially during the marriage.

During marriage there should never be 'his and her' money and assets. It should be 'our' money and assets. Shared equally. Divorce should not change that and assets should also be shared equally. This is also rare.

BlueEyedBabe:
Rare maybe... however as a woman takes time out of her career to have children and raise them, women will naturally have less earning potential in their lifetime.

I lost 2 years of earning with my first child. 6 months with my second child, because then I earned more money than my husband and needed to go back to work sooner.

IMO divorce settlement should be a clear 50/50 split of assets, like my own divorce, no matter who earns more or contributed more financially during the marriage.

During marriage there should never be 'his and her' money and assets. It should be 'our' money and assets. Shared equally. Divorce should not change that and assets should also be shared equally. This is also rare.

Most times the man already had money and assets before getting married.
Do you now suggest they share his assets because a divorce happened in marriage?
In most cases,ladies usually come to the marriage with little or no assets,and eventually seek 50-50 share of the assets they weren't part of,in case of divorce.

I support 50-50 share of the assets acquired during their time(s) together,and not the other way round.

tiswell:
Most times the man already had money and assets before getting married.
Do you now suggest they share his assets because a divorce happened in marriage?
In most cases,ladies usually come to the marriage with little or no assets,and eventually seek 50-50 share of the assets they weren't part of,in case of divorce.

I support 50-50 share of the assets acquired during their time(s) together,and not the other way round.

And again, I originally asked you...
"And when it is the woman who brings wealth to the marriage? Should she also keep all and give nothing if a divorce regrettably occurs?"

In Nigeria, the woman may often come to the marriage with little or nothing, but in my country that is not the case.

I am bringing millions to my impending marriage to a Nigerian man. Should I share everything 50/50 with my future husband if we later divorced, even if he is not wealthy when we marry?

In my opinion, from the day we marry what we both have is Ours. Not mine. Not his. And if we go our seperate ways after some years, what is Ours, should be split 50/50, regardless of what we each had when we married.

BlueEyedBabe:
And again, I originally asked you...
"And when it is the woman who brings wealth to the marriage? Should she also keep all and give nothing if a divorce regrettably occurs?"

In Nigeria, the woman may often come to the marriage with little or nothing, but in my country that is not the case.

I am bringing millions to my impending marriage to a Nigerian man. Should I share everything 50/50 with my future husband if we later divorced, even if he is not wealthy when we marry?

In my opinion, from the day we marry what we both have is Ours. Not mine. Not his. And if we go our seperate ways after some years, what is Ours, should be split 50/50, regardless of what we each had when we married.

It is well,we both are right in our own opinion