{"id":30032,"date":"2021-01-11T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=30032"},"modified":"2021-01-11T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:00:13","slug":"revealed-most-expensive-celebrity-divorces-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/revealed-most-expensive-celebrity-divorces-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Most expensive celebrity divorces in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West in February 2020.\u00a0(Photo by Rich Fury\/VF20\/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

From the outside, it might seem like the super-famous and wealthy have it all: money, fame and status.<\/p>\n

But though they\u2019re living large, when an unhappy couple calls it quits on their marriage, their divorces are bigger, too.<\/p>\n

With Kim Kardashian and Kanye West\u2019s divorce<\/a> imminent, the road ahead involves divvying up assets of more than US $2 billion, which includes a massive property portfolio worth $118 million, a $4.9 million fleet of luxury cars and the profits of their two business empires after six years of marriage.<\/p>\n

But the celebrity break-up still might not measure up to some of the world\u2019s most expensive divorces in history, according to\u00a0analysis from OLBG<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After 26 years of marriage, Jeff Bezos<\/a>, Amazon founder and \u2013 until days ago, the richest man in the world \u2013 split from MacKenzie Scott in late 2019, with their divorce settlement costing US $38 billion.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019ve never heard of Alec Wildenstein, he was an art dealer who parted with US $3.8 billion of his fortune to his former wife and socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein.<\/p>\n

She walked away with the money, with one caveat: she wasn\u2019t allowed to spend any of it on cosmetic surgery.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been married four times \u2013 but it was his divorce from Scottish journalist and novelist Anna Maria Mann (nee Torv) that was the most expensive.<\/p>\n

The pair married in 1967 but split up in 1999, costing US $1.7 billion. Anna Maria is the mother to three of Murdoch\u2019s children, Elizabeth, Lachlan and James.<\/p>\n

If those figures look too big, this might put it into perspective.<\/p>\n

Per month of marriage, the wealthy businessmen\u2019s spouses received:<\/p>\n