Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos ..., these most expensive celebrity divorces in the world
The announcement of the divorce of the co-founder of Microsoft will rock billions. But other separations have already made a lot of talk for having broken financial records. Here are the top 3 of the most famous.
Bill and Melinda Gates, the most expensive of all time?
Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce Monday on Twitter after 27 years of marriage. And this separation could be one of the most expensive in history.
Because among the Gates, there is no less than 124 billion dollars to share. The now 65-year-old Microsoft co-founder is, according to the latest Forbes ranking, the fourth richest man in the world, behind Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Frenchman Bernard Arnault.
For now, the financial details of their divorce have not been released. But according to TMZ, the judgment could take place in April 2022.
For now, the financial details of their divorce have not been released. But according to TMZ, the judgment could take place in April 2022.
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, $ 38 billion
The other divorce of the century is that of Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie in 2019, a couple whose fortune was estimated at the time at some 150 billion dollars. After 25 years of marriage, the divorce was announced following the publication of information about an extramarital affair by the founder of Amazon.
The split ended in a deal worth $ 38 billion. MacKenzie Bezos retained the couple's 25% stake in Amazon, or 4% of the company's overall stock, but gave up all of his stakes in the Washington Post newspaper and aerospace firm Blue Origin. Thanks to her divorce, she is now the 22nd wealthiest in the world and the third richest woman in the world.
Rupert and Anna Murdoch, $ 1.7 billion
Australian businessman Rupert Murdoch, meanwhile, is used to salty divorces, but it was that from his second wife, Anna, that cost him the most: $ 1.7 billion, in 1999. .
Not really cool, the media mogul had married, just ten days after this divorce, Deng Wendi, 38 years his junior. The couple lasted 14 years. Today, the one who sits 76th in the ranking of the world's greatest fortunes is married to Mick Jagger's ex-companion, Jerry Hall.
Mel Gibson and Robyn Moore, $ 425 million
Mel Gibson is one of the richest actors in Hollywood and his divorce from Australian actress Robyn Moore remains to this day the costliest in the world of cinema.
The couple had married in 1980, and the divorce officially pronounced in 2011. Following a long legal battle, the director of The Passion of Christ, whose fortune was then estimated at 900 million dollars, had to pay to the one who gave him seven children the trifle of ... 425 million dollars.
