The high price of celebrity—in divorce court
How might Mel Gibson’s split stack up against some of the biggest celebrity divorces?
by Susan Mohammad and Rachel Mendleson on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:10pm -
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Michael and Juanita Jordan (settlement: an estimated US$168 million)
Juanita first filed for divorce in 2002, after 13 years of marriage, citing “irreconcilable differences,” but withdrew a month later in the hopes of making it work. When she filed again in 2006, the petition stuck; insiders say she initially asked for $90 million, but by the time they settled in March 2007, the deal had grown to an estimated US$168 million. Custody of their three kids went to Juanita, as did the deed to their seven-acre Chicago home.
