Phil Collins divorce costs him dear
Genesis front man Phil Collins has broken records with his latest, and third, divorce. This time Phil has divorced his wife of six years a staggering £25 million in a settlement.
Phil’s estranged wife, Orianne Cevey, is twenty-two years his junior at thirty-five, and has two children with fifty-seven year old Phil Collins. A report by the Daily Mirror states that the £25 million settlement Phil Collins has been ordered to pay represents a new record for payouts by a British celebrity. It just pips the previous record of £24.3 million that Sir Paul McCartney was ordered to pay his ex-wife, Heather Mills, in their divorce.
This settlement raises questions of how people like Phil Collins can be ordered to pay sums of such magnitude from their personal fortunes when they earned all of that money over the course of their careers, before they met their wives. Both Phil Collins and Sir Paul McCartney were multi-millionaires before marrying, and both have been ordered to pay out huge sums of money to women they have been married to for just a short time.
Do Orianne Cevey and Heather Mills deserve to be awarded £25 million and £24.3 million respectively, from the fortunes of men who have earned their money over decades entertaining the world?
maybe the awarded sum has something to do with
having to raise the incredibly famous offspring of
such famous men,which might require a lifetime of
enhanced security measures and other expensive
lifestyle costs almost unavoidable to a single mother
rearing children of such mega-celebrities. Just staying
clear of the groupies and paparazzi might cost
a lot more than the average single mother
has to consider.
Comment by Diane — August 20, 2008 @ 2:31 pm