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In what’s being called “The World’s Most Expensive Divorce,” Dmitry Rybolovlev finally settled everything with his now ex-wife after all of the lawsuits on the table were dropped. A Russian Oligarch worth more than $9 billion, Dmitry fought for over seven years with his ex over everything from properties to jets to yachts.
Per Town & Country:
The terms have not been released, but it’s worth mentioning that at one point a Swiss Judge wanted to award Elena Rybolovleva half his fortune, which is what makes this so costly.
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In fact, he said, talking of the divorce, he never really wanted to get divorced at all. (Then again, one must remember he had not had a prenuptial​ agreement, so financially he had good reason not to.) He had met Elena (whose lawyers did not return calls) back when he was a student cardiologist, before he went into finance and the fertilizer industry and made his fortune. It was never an ordinary marriage with ordinary stresses.
Well of course he didn’t want to get divorced. This dude knew the hassle and bank it would cost him. At the end of the day, isn’t it more worth just letting some old bag of air complain to you all day rather than give her billions upon billions of assets? Just look at what these two had to haggle over.
$88 Million – 15 Central Park West apartment, NYC
$95 Million – Palm Beach mansion bought from Donald Trump, Maison de l’Amitie
$150 Million – Two Greek islands that once belonged to Athina Onassis
$111 Million – “My Anna” yacht
$20 Million – Kauai, Hawaii house purchased from Will Smith
$95 Million – Airbus A319 Jet
$480-800 Million – Art and furniture collection
$138 Million – Gstaad property
$50 Million – Moscow real estate holdings
$24 Million – Paris property
Dmitry did his interview with Town & Country regarding all of this in Monaco, which is the most disgustingly baller place one can do an interview about a billion dollar divorce. Had I been there for the interview, I would have asked some questions of my own.
Why did you find it necessary to buy not one, but two Greek Islands? When you purchased your house in Hawaii from Will Smith, did you two smoke cigars together after you completed the sale like you were in Bad Boys? And finally, the fuck are you doing spending $800 million on furniture, my dude?
Let’s see. If I were married and the broad I was trying to divorce was entitled to half of my fortune, here’s what she’d get: Half of a bottle of Pinot Noir signed by Igor Larionov, a collection of golf balls with famous logos on them, a bunch of size large longsleeve pocket shirts, a pair of irons that are fitted to 9th-grade me, and half of my student loan debt. Congrats, toots, pleasure doin’ business with ya. .
[via Town & Country]
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Sometimes I crack jokes about “the peasants,” but then I read stuff like this and am quickly reminded that I am one of the peasants I make fun of.
Wills wife – “Why do you have a half full bottle of Pinot with Igor Larionov’s autograph on it?”
Will – “Well it was all I had on me at the time and you don’t not get Igor Larionov’s autograph.”
I think he said half a bottle because they would split it…
Thanks for clearing that up, chief.
Just trying to help, guy
Appreciate the concern, friend. When you stare at a computer screen all day these little things get by you sometimes. But no way will opens that bottle to begin with and risks losing it other than it being taken from his cold, dead hands. Wings fans take those late 90s early 2000s teams seriously.
Not having rich people problems. PGP
Will, if you’re ever looking to part with that Pinot Noir, it’s actually the last one I need to complete my Russian 5 autographed wine bottle collection…
Is this guy a James Bond villain? If I was that rich, I’d move to estate residence to Saudi Arabia or some shit where my ex-wife would get jack shit.
Would this… actually work? Establish legal residence in some backwards third world country where women have almost no rights, then get divorced there and leave her with like two goats and a camel? If it works, I feel like someone would have done it by now.
That’s what I’m wondering. I’m not a lawyer, and I’m definitely not an expert on Russian law, but I feel it’s not impossible. Do you have to get divorced in the same country you got married if you’ve moved somewhere else? I mean, there are countries that don’t have extradition, so there has to be a way.
I’d pull a Buck Strickland and hide $10,000 and a shotgun away from whatever bloodsucker I’d be dealing with. If I were married and getting divorced now though, she’d get a pair of Nike running shoes with a torn heel and an unreasonable amount of cigarette burns in them
Settled my divorce last month. Worth every penny.
So did he buy a yacht and name it after another girl that’s not his wife? Or did I read that wrong?
I’m guessing he put some face babies where they shouldn’t have been.