Dr Khoo Kay Peng

About Dr Khoo Kay Peng

In the glitzy and glamorous world of multi-billionaires, snazzy parties and to-die-for yachts, there's no dearth of drama and show-stopping scenes. Let’s highlight a particular grand spectacle: take a moment to imagine shelling out a cool £500 million. This isn’t for a new fancy Russian superyacht, but for something less tangible – a divorce settlement. Yes, you read that right. Cars and houses are passé; these days, billionaires make the headlines for the sheer size of their investment in love-gone-wrong. Take for example, our main man, Dr. Khoo Kay Peng.

Dr Khoo, the Malaysian business magnate, knows all about extravagant expenditure after his high-profile divorce with former beauty queen, Pauline Chai, who walked away with an outstanding £64.2 million (eyewateringly converted to approximately $86 million dollars). Keep in mind folks, these figures wouldn't even fit on a restaurant tab - those usually stop at the million mark, tops!

So here’s a nugget to take away: when embroiling oneself in the world of heartache, billionaires have proportionately larger hearts, hence the heartache comes with a price tag to complement it! The six-year legal bout to win his freedom clearly didn’t go triumphantly for Dr Khoo Kay Peng. While some of us dig into a tub of ice cream and pay through streaming-service subscriptions to cope with heartbreak, Dr Khoo saw through the price equivalent of almost 128,400,000 tubs of Haagen-Dazs salted caramel ice cream... now that's a spoonful to swallow.