most expensive divorces in history

After twenty three years of marriage and two kids the couple divorced in 2009 costing the famous British business magnate and chief executive of the Formula One Group an estimated $1?$1.2 billion.

After a thirty two year marriage and three children, Murdoch and Torv decided to call it quits back in 1998. Their divorce was finalized in 1999, leaving Torv with over $1.5 billion including $110 million in cash.

Murdoch married Deng only seventeen days after his second divorce was finalized. Fourteen years later, he was ready to repeat the process. Murdoch, eighty two, and Deng, forty four, are divorcing due to irreconcilable differences. ($1.8 billion)

Even if you ve never heard of him or that their divorce is currently the second most expensive in history, you have probably seen or heard about Jocelyn, the obsessively vain woman who had multiple plastic surgeries to look like a cat or tiger or something along those lines. During the couple s divorce in 1997, the New York socialite received an immediate $2.5 billion settlement from her husband and $100 million each year for the next thirteen years.

Dmitry, a Russian oligarch known as the fertilizer king, who also owns European soccer club AS Monaco, was ordered by a Swiss judge earlier last year to pay his former wife a record breaking amount that shocked the world. Elena had sought $6 billion out of the $12.8 billion fortune her husband had amassed. According to the Associated Press she ended up with only $4.5 billion.