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Actually, Apocalypto was a 'ripoff' of a movie with a VERY similar plot, made about 30 years ago. I think it was called The Naked Prey.

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I'm sure you could do an exec summary, Pro. However, I must correct you about Paul. Linda died and he remarried Heather Mills, a former model. She's the one who may deserve the term 'bitch,' not Linda. She certainly does deserve the term 'rich.'

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Touche, Bilko. Correcting the correcter. I guess that's what happens when you rush a reply (as I'm sure 3Pk did) and post from memory without doing any actual research.

Of course you're right, Paul's first wife Linda may have been rich but certainly was no bitch. In fact, she was beloved not only by her husband of 29yrs but the entire British general public when she died in 1998. OTOH, Heather Mills had an entirely different public image and the term "bitch" aptly applies. After just 5-6 years of marriage where she kept busy by giving Paul's money away, she sued him for ~$250M in divorce before finally being awarded just under $50M by British courts. The list of her reprehensible actions and behaviors before, during and after their marriage that has come out in the media is longer than even I could write in this post.

Still at "only" $50M, you could say that Paul got off very light in his divorce when you compare it to the $450M that our buddy Mel is facing, which will most likely wind up being a record divorce settlement. Forbes magazine ranks the McCartney divorce only the seventh most expensive celebrity divorce in history. I thought some of you might find some of the previous large divorce settlements interesting in comparison:

1) Basketball great Michael Jordan divorced his wife of nearly 18yrs in November 2007 paying an estimated $168M and making it the largest celebrity divorce settlement in history on public record ... until now.

2) Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond settled an estimated $150M to onetime TV production assistant Marcia Murphey, whom he married in 1969 before his breakthrough album, "Touching You, Touching Me," went gold. They divorced in 1996. Diamond later said Murphey, his second wife, was "worth every penny."

3) Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg's first marriage, to actress Amy Irving, ended in 1989 with his ex-spouse awarded roughly half of the filmmaker's fortune, about $100M.

4) In 1994, Kevin Costner had an estimated $80M settlement obtained by his first wife after 16-year of marriage (spanning his peak earning years). A couple of years later he was living with his new girlfriend - supermodel Elle MacPherson - so you might say that was a worthwhile trade-up. He's now married to another german model. So good for him.

5) Kenny Rogers paid ~$60M to divorce his 4th wife. He's now on his 5th. I'm surprised he has any money left.

6) James Cameron, director of the Terminator flicks, married actress Linda Hamilton after 6 years of dating. The marriage only lasted 17 months but cost him $50M when it ended in 1999.

7) Paul McCartney

8 ) Michael Douglas married his wife in 1977 before his career had really taken off. By 1997, however, she had decided she was fed up with her husband's cheating ways and filed for divorce. Ultimately it wound up costing him $45M.

9) Ted Danson, who became a household name while playing the womanizing Sam Malone in hit comedy sitcom Cheers, apparently took that role too far when he started seeing other women while still married to Casey Coates. Most notably, he started to date Whoopi Goldberg. Whoppi Goldberg ? The cost of his trysts? A divorce in 1992 and a lump sum payment of $30M.

10) Mick Jagger who had to pay the Texan model Jerry Hall, between $15-25M. Their marriage of 22 years ended in 1999 after the Rolling Stone fathered a Ch*ld by a Brazilian model.

Not on the Forbes list for some reason (because they're not all considered celebrities?) but should be:

Actor Harrison Ford paid an estimated $85 million to his 2nd wife, in 2004. That should put him at #4 on the celebrity list and knock poor Mick from the top ten. You spinner lovers might be interested to know that Indiana Jones is now engaged to actress Calista Flockhart, his girlfriend of SEVEN years (do the math). Personally, I like spinners but that bird is way too anorexic for even me. I couldn't say this is trading up.

Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi proves you don't have to be a celebrity in order to have a costly divorce. This international arms dealer owned hotels, banks and real estate around the world. As a result, his estimated fortune in 1986 was an astounding $4 billion. Therefore, the $874 million divorce settlement he paid to his wife, Soraya Khashoggi, during his 1982 divorce did not set him back too far.

Rupert Murdoch is known for being one of the richest men in the world. Yet, he managed to hold together his marriage to Anna Murdoch for an impressive 32 years. In 1998, the couple managed to split harmoniously - until Rupert forced Anna from the board of News Corp. The move made the divorce proceedings far uglier and Anna managed to walk away with a $1.7 billion settlement. Rupert went on to marry one of his employees, Wendi Deng, seventeen days after the divorce was finalized

And finally not ultra high dollars but still highly notable:

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman had a highly public and bitter divorce in 2001. But HE actually sued HER for divorce and seperated from her just before their 10th anniversary in 2000 when she was 3 months pregnant (she later miscarried). That was a shrewd if heartless calculation on his part because under California law he stood to pay less in settlement costs to her if the union lasted less than a decade. Their final settlement was sealed by the court but a few details are known. It was reported that, in dividing up their reputed fortune of $350 million, Kidman got $4.3 million, a five-bedroom mansion in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles and a house in Sydney, Australia. Considering she was a successful actress in her own right and probably earned at least that much herself, Cruise got off very light. After Nicole, Cruise dated super latin hottie Penélope Cruz and is now married to cute young Katie Holmes. The lucky bastard has gotten way more than he deserves.

Pro and Bilko,



You are indeed correct. I got them confused except for the fact that one of them, Linda, took the other Paul, to the cleaners. Hey, I am on oldie but goodie with a real good memeory, albeit short. And sometimes, just sometimes, I leave it to you younger guys to clear everything up so you don't run out of things to do. LOL (just bustin your cheeks a little) thanks for the correction.

3P

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Kenny Rogers ain't hurting and it's at least as much his shrewd real estate dealings as the croaky treacle called a music career. For example, he bought a house in LA for $12Million and sold it 6 months later for $24Million. Slick, no?

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El C.,
Your use of quotes there is a little confusing. I already acknowledged I meant Paul McCartney and his bitch ex-wife HEATHER.

As for the latest correction, I also meant that John Lennon never got divorced FROM YOKO. It is true that she was his 2nd wife. He was married Cytnhia Powell in 1962. According to Wiki: "When it was discovered that Ono had become pregnant, Powell petitioned Lennon for divorce. During negotiations Lennon refused to give his wife any more than £75,000, supposedly saying, "What have you done to deserve it? Christ, it's like winning the bloody pools." The case was settled out of court, with Powell receiving £100,000, £2,400 annually, custody of Julian and the Lennons' house (Kenwood)." So, considering the Beatles had become a phenomenal worldwide success during the time of their marriage and he was the one committing adultery, Lennon got off really really light from that ordeal. It also partially explains why Yoko was so unpopular with the general public. However, my original point was that the Lennon-Ono marriage was a very close and happy one right up to the very end with Lennon even happily taking on the role of house-husband.

The McCartney marriages provide some interesting contrasts. McCartney's first marriage was also a very close and happy one right up to the very end with Linda's death. However, unlike Yoko, Linda was very well regarded by the general public. In contrast, McCartney's marriage to Heather Mills was troubled from the start. Threatening to leave him unless he married her and then forcing him to give up his beloved pot-smoking certainly couldn't have helped. And she was seen as a gold-digger usurping Linda's place by the general public and was never accepted by them. The revelation that she had once worked as an escort prior to meeting Paul couldn't have helped much either. And in the end she took Paul for WAAYYY more than John's first wife took him. And Paul was a faithful husband and John wasn't. For what he wound up paying, Paul SHOULD have been screwing around on her. He certainly got screwed by her.

Regarding Mel, since I share the ethnicity of "99% of the entertainment industry executives" I think I have SOME insight into how they think and I'd be willing to bet that whatever Mel said has very little direct bearing on whether they would hire him again for a Hollywood gig. If they saw an opportunity to make money by putting him into a movie, they'd still do it. They might hold their oversized Jew noses while doing it, but they'd still do it. The bigger question is how Mel's remarks affected his box-office draw. I'm sure it has hurt him somewhat, but I'd also be willing to bet that there are still plenty of people who don't care enough to stop seeing his movies. Finally, until he pays his divorce settlement, Mel still has more than enough money to produce his own movies, as he did with both Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto and which he made a ton of money on. This is sort of a similar situation as mega box-office star Tom Cruise. He turned off a lot of people when he went crazy on Oprah and probably damaged his marketability as a stable actor to work with, but he still has enough box-office draw to overcome a lot of that and he also has a ton of money to form his own production company even if no one else will hire him. Both these guys have some wacky religious beliefs but at least Gibson has won 2 Oscars to his credit.

BTW, according to Imdb, Mel has a movie in post-production that is due out later this year (a thriller called "Edge of Darkness") and another movie called Sam and George to be directed by Richard Donner that has been announced for next year. That's a good thing since Mel is probably gonna need to make back a lot of money by the time his divorce is all over.

...And from left field we get this:
That "Risky Business" guy, his wife and their K*ds were going out on the yacht and invited Michael Jackson along. He said "Sure, I'd love to come on a little cruise." I'll get scathing posts and PMs on this one for sure.

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Mel's an idiot. I'd of divorced him a long time ago. He's rich but his acting is marginal at best - I always "see" him acting when he says a line. And I don't agree with his politics or his evangelizing.

This is one gringa bitch I agree with, and I don't say that often.

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With the $450 M left, he could, and might, buy Costa Rica.

BTW, Mel said that the Jews are responsible for the breakup.

See what happens when you don't use your in room safe !!!

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