Madonna and Guy; £100 million award on its way?
Well, the critics have been speculating about their marrriage for some time and now the speculation seems to have been on the ball; Madonna and Guy Ritchie have announced their intention to divorce, so now the fun really begins as top divorce lawyers for each will manoevre and argue over the couples combined fortune - estimated at £300 million!
The case will be an interesting twist on the norm of a woman seeking a large sum of money from her wealthy husband with Guy instead probably seeking a large slice of the couples fortune. After all - I am sure the argument will go - he had to put his own career on the back-burner to support Madge’s demanding career and give emotional support to their family.
Guy is one of a growing number of men in the position of benefiting from divorce because of being married to a very successful woman. The law doesn’t discriminate bewteen men and women any longer, just the wealthy and the not!
Incredibly it seems tht Madonna didn’t get Guy to enter into a prenup and so all is open to argument. Sorry Madge, big mistake! In legal circles it is being speculated that if properly handled the divorce should result in Guy receiving the largest payout in British court history, dwarfing the miserable £24 million paid to my old friend and yours, Heather Mills McCartney.
There really is no reason why this should have happened. If Madonna had taken the advice I am sure she was given then a prenup would have been in place and the divorce spoils would be minimised. Madonna has been implicated by Axel Rodriguez’s wife as being responsible for their marriage break-down, (something Madonna has denied); but at least the New York Yankee star had a prenup! Maybe instead of him listening to her, she should have been listening to him!
If you think that Madonna’s wealth is such she won’t miss the occasional £50 or £100 million, just look at what they are reported to own, just real property, not cars or anything else, just real property, all of which is now up for argument;
Madonna is believed to own the couple’s London home, a £7m family townhouse in Marylebone, and a 10-bedroom, £6m property next door as well as two Manhattan apartments overlooking New York’s Central Park worth £2m each.
Guy is thought to own their estate, Ashcombe House, in Wiltshire which has large grounds and is reportedly worth £10m.
It is thought that the couple own the following properties jointly;
Two mews cottages in London worth £2m each (used to house their London staff).
The £2.5m Punchbowl Pub on Farm St in Mayfair, apparently Madonna and Ritchie own it with their friends.
A £3.6m building in London’s West End -the headquarters of the Kabbalah sect;
A five-storey, £1.6m house in Regents Park.
A two-storey mansion in Beverly Hills, California worth £8m.
Divorce planning doesn’t just happen. You have to make it happen, especially if you are “A material girl!”
Doctor Ditchem
International Divorce Strategist
“Protecting wealth against Divorce!”
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