Brenda Richie

About Brenda Richie

Just when love seems to be going “all night long,” a curveball comes flying toward it... Well, in the case of Brenda Richie, her love story with Lionel Richie, crooner-extraordinaire, might have sounded like a beautiful love ballad in the beginning, but ended more like an intense rock anthem interspersed with a cash register's ka-chinging noises!

Brenda Richie’s story should certainly come with a catchy slogan - like, "When Having Farewell Parties Pays Off." Not in emotional therapy, No-ho-ho! But in cold, hard cash baby! What makes this divorce unique and somewhat hilarious is not that Lionel fled-elope from their 'easy like Sunday mornings' to 'up all-night dancing on the ceiling' routine. It’s also not really about the staggering breakup fee Lionel had to cough up for forgetting the ’till-death-do-us-part clause. Rather, the exceptional story of Brenda Richie lies in the sexy amount of settlement she was able to milk from the sleeveless Billy The Kid shirt-clad Mr. Richie i.e. a casual $20,000,000 - now that’s what we call laughing all the way to the bank post messy divorce!

See, one's man's separation is another woman's ‘settle-up-nation’, and Brenda showed she wore those settlement chasing boots like a true Daisy Duke. With this significant payout, she undoubtedly got herself etched in the annals of "most memorable divorce settlements" folklore. So here’s to Brenda Richie - the lady who spun Lionel's 'Stuck On You' ballads right onto an illustrious financial recovery path after shattering love life, one hefty settlement at a time. Who would've thought at the beginning 'Hello! Is it me you're looking for?' would end up being 'Goodbye! Is that my $20,000,000 you’re walking away with?'