10 Ultra-Expensive CEO Divorces (PHOTOS)

The world's best CEOs are accustomed to expensive lifestyles, jaunts in private planes and perks galore. But there may be no better evidence of the lavish tastes of top-flight execs than a glimpse into a CEO's divorce proceedings.

Of course, executive divorces are notoriously expensive -- Rupert Murdoch, Jack Welch and Ted Turner have all shelled out tens of millions to settle divorce claims. Recently, Marie Douglas-David, the Sweedish countess who's divorcing former United Technologies CEO George David, said there was no way she could live on $43 million.

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Vote and Share Choose Your Top 5 Not Enough Way Too Much Now Make Your Own Top 5 And Share with Your Friends RANK: AVERAGE:  OUT OF 10 In her ongoing divorce from George David, the former CEO of United Technologies, Douglas-David argued in court that she actually could not live on $53,000 week. She asked a Connecticut court to throw out her postnuptial agreement with her ex-husband, who's worth an estimated $329 million.

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[ChuckFarley]

Is this money that was already taxed onced, that will be taxed again?

[DevRock]

Wow, that Douglas-David cougar is HOT! She could be my sugar-momma any day!

[TrippyWeekender]

Q: Why is divorce so expensive?

A: Because it's worth it!

[zukervati]

Man, it better have been gilded - that's some expensive Papa Tango! I suppose, in the end, it's always cheaper to keep 'er!

[dubster]

Those sums of money that those women received are outrages. Especially Michael Jordan's wife. They earn all that money only to get burned by some stepford wives.

[Mondayboy]

Marie Douglas-David is beautiful!!

[prdamericanmom]

Do you think it costs more than 53K a week to make her look like that?

The poor dear. How many tanning sessions and pairs of shoes will she have to do without now that she's well on her way to being single?

[youtubeit]

this economy is in such deep *&^ yet Obamma & Summers live on another astral plane, unwilling to acknowledge reality, even though 995 of Americans experience and know what's going on, and are tired of the BS.

good articles: http://www.iamned.com

[The Albany Kid]

Why does Eddie Murphy's "Raw" stand-up movie come to mind right now?

[Atra]

Because there's a element of truth, a large vein of truth.

[TXCiclista]

"sweedish.". swEEEEEdish.

[jalowe1957]

Wendy McCaw doesn't deserve not a dime from her divorce settlement, particularly since she took the Santa Barbara's town newspaper and sent straight to hell in a handbasket.

All I can say is she's no Katherine Graham, more like a vindictive Hedda Hopper.

[Forester]

Are we supposed to admire these people?

[rich misty]

I thought having more money was how you judged character. The wealthiest ones are like living in heaven already.... Right?

[samjung23]

10 great reasons why it's not smart or good to worship the obscenely rich.

You can't live on $53,000 a WEEK? Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. How can Americans cheerlead this mentality?

[drymartini1]

people live differently. there are people who can live on 100$/week, some can live on 1000/week and some can on 10000/week. there is nothing disgusting about anything?

nowhere does it say everyone has to live similarly now does it?

[petef59]

Meritocracy?

[CH94611]

In the words of that great song by Johnnie Taylor " It's cheaper to keep her"!

[tigerlyly]

Janet Johnston is best known as a researcher of high conflict divorce and parental alienation. Johnston has noted that approximately 80% of divorce cases are settled, either up front, or as the case moves through the process. Studies have found that only approximately 20% of divorcing or separating families take the case to court. Only approximately 4-5% ultimately go to trial, with most cases settling at some point earlier in the process.

by Professor Joan S. Meier, Esq.
George Washington University

[speculawyer]

This is HuffPo . . . where is the listen of rich women that lost a large amount of money in divorces? Or is there no equal justice?