Tom Cruise named highest-paid Hollywood actor
Baku, July (AZERTAC). As well as the vicious custody battle looming, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’s split is likely to end in one of Hollywood’s most expensive divorce
settlements. The couple aren’t just fighting over custody of daughter Suri, but also their estimated $275 million estate.
Holmes’ prenuptial agreement entitles her to the couple’s palatial Californian mansion - valued at $35 million - and $3 million for every year she was married to Cruise - up to a maximum of eleven years - an arrangement now worth $15 million.
But whatever the outcome, TomKat are far from having the most expensive celebrity divorce. Here are the top ten, in reverse order.
Actor Costner was just a student when he met Cindy Silva at California State University in 1975. The pair married three years later and had three children over 15 years. But as Costner’s acting career took off his marriage suffered, and the couple eventually split in 1994. The divorce was settled privately but Silva reportedly walked away with around $80 million.
Actor Harrison Ford split from wife of 18 years Melissa Mathison in 2004. Ford settled for $85 million with Mathison but the settlement also gave her a percentage of all future earnings on films Ford made while they were together - including The Fugitive and the Indiana Jones Trilogy - meaning Mathison ended up with much more than the initial settlement.
Just like TomKat, this split involved not one but two celebrities. After eight years of marriage and two children Madge and Ritchie called it quits in 2008. Madonna was the one left out of pocket in the settlement, handing over around $90 million to the Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels director. Ritchie later said of the marriage: “I stepped into a soap opera.”
The couple met when actress Irving auditioned for Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The pair married in 1985 but split after four years. Irving successfully contested their pre-nuptial agreement (allegedly scribbled on a napkin), arguing she didn’t have the required legal representation present, and was awarded $100 million, half of Spielberg’s fortune at the time.
Singer Neil Diamond married television producer Murphy, his second wife, in 1969, before he had released his first gold album. The pair remained together until 1994 when Murphy filed for divorce, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’. Murphy walked away with $150 million of Diamond’s fortune, but the singer later said: “She’s worth every penny.”
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