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Tycoon's $15m divorce revenge
Daily Telegraph ^ | October 11, 2007 | Janet Fife-Yeomans

Posted on 10/11/2007 3:23:03 AM PDT by Daffynition

A BUSINESSMAN went on a $15 million spree, showering his mistress with first class travel, jewellery and designer clothes to stop his wife getting the family wealth.

The man, who cannot be named, bought a $4.5 million clifftop "weekender" and shelled out an extra $2.33 million for land for a tennis court in what a Family Court judge labelled a flagrant and reckless waste of money.

The 65-year-old splurged $217,697 on a "prestige car" for himself and a Jeep Cherokee and Range Rover for the mistress, embarking on a "wanton" lifestyle costing up to $153,000 a month.

Within five years of leaving his wife of 35 years the businessman, a health professional, had spent so much his city business had gone downhill, he had debts of more than $2 million and no one would give him credit.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: divorce; itsamansworldbaby; pyrrhicvictory; scorchedearthdivorce

1 posted on 10/11/2007 3:23:06 AM PDT by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

Baby, do me one more time.


2 posted on 10/11/2007 3:53:31 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: battlegearboat
LOL

"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."

3 posted on 10/11/2007 4:38:11 AM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: Daffynition
n what a Family Court judge labelled a flagrant and reckless waste of money.

His money.

I reserve the right to piss away every nickle that I make, if I so choose.

4 posted on 10/11/2007 5:14:36 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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To: cowboyway

“His money”

Correct.


5 posted on 10/11/2007 7:35:55 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: cowboyway; Daffynition

A judge will probably rule that he owes the money anyway and he’ll spend the rest of his life working to pay it off.


6 posted on 10/11/2007 7:38:48 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (No problem should be abandoned until treachery and brute force have been tried and failed.)
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To: Daffynition
Whatever money I make, "I" make. Whatever money she makes, SHE makes! No woman (or man) should be automatically entitled to their spouse's assets.

Unfortunatly, we live in a Gynocracy as far as our legal system is concerned.

7 posted on 10/11/2007 7:39:25 AM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: Daffynition
My wife said she wanted me to talk dirty to her during sex.
So, I called her from the hotel.
8 posted on 10/11/2007 9:34:14 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: raptor29
Not really correct.

Justice Guest said that when the couple married in 1966, neither had any significant assets. Together they built businesses, bought and sold real estate including two London homes worth $8 million and adopted four children.

and he had already begun an affair before the couple broke up.
9 posted on 10/11/2007 4:04:53 PM PDT by InsensitiveConservative
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To: InsensitiveConservative

You know the details of this whole thing? They mention that the guy is a ‘health professional’. Why is the wife’s profession not mentioned? These two married in 1966, when the guy would have been around, what, 24 years old, and you think it’s significant they had few assets at the time? Maybe the wife grew to become a complete bitch, as many do when the money starts showing up and they adopt the all-too-common attitude of entitlement for assets they didn’t earn. And maybe the guy was sick of it, and refused to allow her to take a huge sum in a divorce settlement.


10 posted on 10/11/2007 7:32:29 PM PDT by raptor29
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To: Daffynition
"You never really know a SPOUSE man until you have
divorced one him."


Just wanted to make sure the BRAVO SIERRA suffering of all spouses
gets acknowledged.
11 posted on 10/11/2007 7:43:15 PM PDT by VOA
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To: raptor29

No and neither do you. I find it interesting you assume it’s all on the gold digging wife given the story does not indicate such.


12 posted on 10/12/2007 10:37:40 AM PDT by InsensitiveConservative
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To: InsensitiveConservative

“I find it interesting you assume it’s all on the gold digging wife given the story does not indicate such.”

The knee jerk reaction by the liberal media is to always be sympathetic to the woman, and your knee jerk reaction was to do the same. Wives of guys who earn a lot of money can become complete jerks and make the guy’s life miserable, because they know that the prevailing divorce environment favors the woman.


13 posted on 10/12/2007 10:46:48 AM PDT by raptor29
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