Number of Divorces: 1
Settlements: -$425.0 million
Settlement Amount: $425.0 million
Oh, the thrills, spills, and bill(ching)s (!) of Hollywood love life. Our featured personality today really knows a LOT about that last part – dear old Mad Max himself, Mel Gibson. Post-divorce, give or take a few hundred million, he sorrowfully parted with a heart-stopping $425,000,000 custody to his ex-spouse, Robyn Moore Gibson. Whoever said Hollywood lived by bread alone forgot to mention infinity pools, swanky Malibu mansions, and 'now-that's-a-big-rock' expense plans!
Talk about a lethal (financial) weapon! Call us pessimists, but "Won: No" does sound like the ultimate understatement. The negotiations may have been challenging as crucifying, like a day on Braveheart's battlefield; one day Mel is atop the Hollywood hill, proudly berating the grunts below, and the next, he's wearing the anguishing color of expensive break-up sacrifices. Switching from mullet-famous action titan, Gibson now prances in the league of guys who think: 'Man the love was sweet, but Jeez! that much for a Broken heart?’.
Fellow earthlings (& all sign-carrying extraterrestrial lifeforms), prepare to take notes for your lifetime, from where the Patriot failed in the defense. Love lesson to be winked upon- make sure you are absolutely, positively, extravagantly sure about your life partners. Otherwise, your wallet could wake up nursing the mother of all financial hangovers. Here's raising the humbled yet humorous toast to Mel for teaching us real-life, the high-cost Hollywood ways!