If you are searching for the most expensive divorce settlements ever, check out this list of the top 10 most expensive divorces in the world.
Numerous rich celebrity and businessmen ended their marriage with a costly divorce settlement. The divorce compensations to their female partner worth millions and billions of dollars. Such expensive divorces of celebrities become eye-popping and the interest of discussion all across the world.
That’s why you are also here in exploration for the most expensive divorce settlements of all time and luckily you are in right place.
As we always do, this time we’re going to shortlist here world’s top ten most expensive divorces. Let’s have a look and feel free to tell your opinion in the comment section.
Top 10 Most Expensive Divorces in the World
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver divorceÂ
One of the greatest bodybuilders in the world, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and American journalist Maria Shriver ended up their marriage after a long span of 25 years. Maria filed for divorce after knowing the affair of Arnold with their housekeeper.
Although they didn’t sign any agreement, Maria decided to end up the marriage with compensation of $250 million with the legal custody of their children. This marriage also ended up being one of the most expensive divorces in the world.
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Robert and Sheila Johnson divorceÂ
CFO of Black Entertainment Television (BET) Robert and Sheila Johnson married in 1969. Their relationship came as a fortune in 2000 when they became the first African-American billionaires.
After almost 32 years of marriage, they divorced in 2002. As compensation, Sheila walked away with almost $400 million of settlements. Later on, she married the judge who heard their hearing.
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Mel and Robyn Gibson divorce
One of the most expensive divorce settlements of Hollywood, Mel and Robyn Gibson ended up their marriage in 2011. They finalized their divorces after almost 26 years of marriage.
At the time of divorce, Mel was worth around $850 million. As a result of divorce, around half of his worth was given to Robyn as a divorce settlement. Just like most of the celebs, they too didn’t sign any prenuptial agreement that results in such huge settlement expenses.
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Craig and Wendy McCaw divorce
Craig and Wendy McCaw – the pair who is widely famous for their building a great telecom empire together. They finalized their bond of relationship by marriage in 1963. Unfortunately, after almost 24 years of their not so good marriage life, they decided to divorce and split. As compensation for the divorce, Wendy McCaw received almost $460 million.
Wendy used this huge amount to free the killer whale, Keiko. Just before a few years of their divorce, they sold their cellular company to AT&T for around $11-12 billion. This was one of the most expensive divorces that make it rank at the seventh position in our list.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev and Elena Rybolovlev divorce
When it comes to one of the most expensive divorces in the world, it might be unfair to forget the divorce of Dmitry Rybolovlev and Elena Rybolovlev. One of the popular and rich businessmen, Dmitry Rybolovlev and Elena Rybolovlev got divorced in 2014. The reason behind the divorce was “serial infidelity,” which Elena cited during the divorce.
At the initial phase of the hearing, the court granted Elena a massive $4.5 billion as a settlement. However, after an appeal from Dmitry, she was only settled with $604 million in return. This is regarded as one of the most expensive divorces that recently took place in the past decade.
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Adnan and Soraya Khashoggi divorce
In the fifth position, we have one of the most expensive divorces of the 90s. Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi married a British woman named Sandra Daly in 1961. Sandra was converted back to Islam at that time and renamed her Soraya. During that time, they had everything they wanted like 17 homes, three planes, three yachts, and many more.
However, after almost 13 years of their marriage, they divorced and Soraya walked away with a huge settlement of $850 million. If we consider this amount in today’s world scenario, it would be equivalent to more than $2 billion.
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Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone divorce
Formula1 executive and one of the most valuable people in the United Kingdom, Bernie Ecclestone, and Slavica Ecclestone divorced after almost 24 years of marriage. They divorced back in 2009 due to the unreasonable behavior of the Formula-1 tycoon. This is what Slavica cited during her divorce.
As a result of the settlement, Slavica was rewarded a whopping $1.2 billion. At the time of this divorce, this was one of the most expensive divorces at that time. Slavica invested this huge money wisely and turned it up to a massive $1.6 billion.
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Rupert Murdoch and Anna Maria Torv divorce
Media superstar, Rupert Murdoch, and famous journalist Anna Maria married back in 1968. However, after almost 31 years of their marriage, they ended up their relationship and finalized the divorce in 1999. At the time of their divorce, they had 3 children together.
Being one of the richest people in the world, Rupert ended up this marriage with a huge settlement. As per the reports, Anna walked away with a whopping settlement of $1.7 billion. Both of them moved on with their life very quickly.
Murdoch married Wendi Deng 17 days after the divorce while on the other hand, Anna married William Mann almost after six months of her divorce.
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Alec and Jocelyn Wildenstein divorce
In the second place, we have the divorce of Alec and Jocelyn Wildenstein. This was one of the 2nd most expensive divorces ever took place to date. Alec and Jocelyn Wildenstein took divorce back in 1999 after almost 21 years of their married life.
Alec Wildenstein who is a renowned French-American businessman and art dealer had one of the high-profile divorces ever existed. This divorce settlement worth $2.5 billion and $100 million for each of the next 13 years. That completes a blowing $3.8 billion settlement for Jocelyn. Considering this amount in today’s world, it would be equivalent to around $5.7 billion USD.
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Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos divorce
Coming to the first position, we have the world’s most expensive divorce that ever took place to date. Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, and his wife divorced back in 2019 after almost 25 years of marriage. They have four children at the time of their divorce.
Being the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos worth around $137 billion at that time. Although still no confirmation whether they had any prenuptial agreement or not since they live in the United States. MacKenzie is entitled to a 50/50 split of the asset of Jeff that resulted in a mind-blowing $68 billion settlement. This huge amount makes it to the most expensive divorces in history of all time.
