According to yahoo.com on 12th April, basketball legend Michael Jordan, Neil Diamond and Steven Spielberg top a new Forbes magazine list of the 10 most costly celebrity divorce settlements.

After topping the NBA scoring tables, now it’s Michael Jordan’s turn to top the list of divorce costs. Indeed, it could very well turn out to be the most expensive celebrity divorce ever. His wife Juanita Vanoy filed for divorce last year after 18 years of marriage, and she could get half his fortune i.e. USD150 million (about half a billion ringgit Malaysia!).

Mike and Juanita in happier times (1999)

Juanita, 4 years older than Mike were introduced to him at a restaurant in 1984. Mike proposed in 1987 and married in 1989. Smart lady, they signed a post-nuptial agreement a year and a half after their wedding. Problems brewed in less than 3 years later in Jan 2002, when she filed for divorce citing the oft-used phrase: irreconcilable differences. She withdrew it a month later. But, 4 years later in 2006, citing the same thing, lawyers announced that the 2 have decided to really divorce.

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