>Yes! I meant to say half a billion! Five hundred million divorce bucks!
Mel Gibson's billion-dollar divorce: How bad will it be for him?
It’s a billion-dollar divorce!" says celebrity divorce lawyer Raoul Felder.
Yesterday’s headlines that Mel Gibson, 53 and his wife Robyn Moore, also 53, were filing for divorce after 28 years of marriage has now been eclipsed by a handful of thornier follow-up questions. Namely, how much will the split cost the A-lister? How will it affect his reputation? Will it jeopardize the projects he has in development? And perhaps, most tantalizing of all, will it be the costliest celebrity divorce ever?
In short, the answers are: lots, remains to be seen, not likely, and almost certainly yes.
With no indication that the couple had hammered out a prenuptial agreement before their 1980 wedding, Gibson’s low-profile wife is now legally entitled to half of everything he’s earned over their nearly-three decades together, according to Felder, which could translate into roughly $500 million. ...