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Billionaire Divorce Lessons: What to Learn — Insights from High-Profile Splits.
Who wants to be a billionaire?
I would not mind being worth a few billion pounds. Yup! Dollars are for chumps! Pounds Sterling is where it’s at! You read it here first!
According to Forbes, there are 2,700 billionaires in the world at the time of writing this and a handful of them have been divorced at least once in their lifetime or have an “open marriage” agreement.
On the one hand, a lack of money strains a marriage and is one of the leading causes of divorces globally. So, logically one should only assume that having a lot of money in marriage should guarantee the union’s safety. Money arguments would be non-existent since money buys things that create happiness and a lot of money buys many things that generate a lot of joy.
But so far, all we have seen are divorces from billionaires. Did you know that the top five wealthiest billionaires in the world have been divorced at least once? Kirk Kerkorian, worth 4.2 billion dollars, divorced his wife just after twenty-eight…
