The high price of celebrity—in divorce court
How might Mel Gibson’s split stack up against some of the biggest celebrity divorces?
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Neil Diamond and Marcia Murphey (settlement: an estimated US$150 million)

Diamond had yet to catapult to stardom when he married TV production assistant Marcia Murphey in 1969. Twenty-five years later, the divorce cost the music legend an estimated US$150 million. But, as he put it, she was “worth every penny.”