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.
