Mel Gibson's divorce is final and it cost him a pretty penny.
Mel Gibson is now legally single after hisdivorce was finalized Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom, but bachelorhood came at a heavy price.Jacked from People
Robyn, his ex-wife of nearly 30 years and the mother of their seven children, is walking away with half his fortune, once estimated to be as high as $850 million (according to the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2006) in what is considered thebiggest divorce payoutin Hollywood history.
Because the couple didn't have a prenuptial agreement, Robyn, 55, was legally entitled to half of everything he earned during their marriage.
Among Gibson's estimated assets: more than $600 million grossed by The Passion of the Christ alone; $100-plus million in real estate investments worldwide (he bought an island in Fiji for $15 million in 2005); and $75 million for film and TV projects for which Gibson, 55, executive produced.
It appears some of his wealth has already been transferred to Robyn, in particular two Malibu homes worth a combined $22.5 million. As for film residuals, Robyn is entitled to half of every future check Gibson receives for the rest of his life.
"I left my wife because we had no spiritual common ground," Gibson told his then-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva in secretly recorded tapes she made of the actor in February 2010.
During his custody battle with Grigorieva, in which the Russian musician accused Gibson of domestic violence, Robyn filed a sworn statement in July 2010 stating that "Mel was a wonderful and loving father" and never abused Robyn or their kids.
Gibson met Robyn, at the time a dental nurse, in the late 1970s after the American-born actor, who moved to Australia when he was 12, had filmed his breakout role in Mad Max.
8 comments:
Karma is a beeyotch he left his family for this physco chick now he has to pay the up and he still don't end up with the girl lol....guess real life endings are not as easy as a die hard ending
"I left my wife because we had no spiritual common ground..
And nothing that he did seem spititual inspired to no one but Satan. How can you act like you are making a decision for God that causes so much destruction? Robin has came out on the higher grown and she didn't have to lose her dignity nor sanity to do so.
Now that's a payday. Someone's having a very good New Year lol.
And somebody's not.
not to mention RObyn is more pretty. I JUST DON'T GET MEN.
was it all worth it Mel?
Some spouses would happily pay the other to go away, male and female. Their children are grown and Mel never has to see her again. Everything is handled through lawyers. Even with half his cash gone, he will be dead and buried before most of it is even spent. So what does he care? Right now, Mel is balls deep in some Russian model. A lot of unhappily married men would give up half their earnings to leave their wives, as long as they can still eat and have a home.
^^^And some men resent like a MFer having to split their money with a bitch that wasn't in narry a movie and read not one script. Color me crazy, but I peg Mel as this type. lol
Michael Jordan is the type you type about ; )
@5:40 pm
I agree. I would wager that most men fall into the Michael Jordan category especially if there are no child custody issues. A couple of men I work with told me the math behind their divorces.
They had good relations with their children so they happily gave the wife what she needed in alimony to stay away.
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