Number of Divorces: 1
Settlements: +$25.0 million
Settlement Amount: $25.0 million
The often-clandestine world of Hollywood's gleaming stars plays home to many intriguing stories. But, one such tale that has resulted in copious legal maneuvering and uproarious laughter knits together Oscan winner diva Patricia Arquette and quirky, always surprising actor Nicolas Cage. If their tale happened to elude your gossip radar, allow us to amuse you.
Ah, the everlasting story of Patricia Arquette and Nicolas Cage – a match made in Hollywood heaven…and helvetica courtrooms. Following their highly publicized divorce in sometime back, the collective breathing of fans all over the world hesitated for a moment in honor of the burned flame of love. But no diva bows out without fans humming to the sweet symphony of a resounding schpeee-ching in the distance. Hilariously, the Oscar-winning actress ended up skip-dancing away with a whopping $25 million from the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's-Nest star. Arquette, back to her ascendant single heights, proves that love might die, but power lives on unfazed.
Much like the indomitable spirit of fiction-prodigy-waitress Alabama Whitman, Arquette's character in Tony Scott’s spectacular True Romance, Patricia has laughed all the way to the bank and made sure she won where it really hurt - the ever-burdened Coffman brief-case of Nicolas Cage. What a ploy, what theatrical excellence! Let's stand up and applaud the latest coup d'etat in the land of Hollywood romance gone awry. Long live Arquette! Long live the winners in love and laughter!