Word: splitting
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...month after confirming they were to split, Madonna and her film-director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary divorce this morning in the High Court of London...
...Ritchie will keep a 1,200-acre estate in Wiltshire and the couple's Punchbowl pub in London's tony neighborhood of Mayfair. The remaining London properties - a $10 million townhouse, a $9 million townhouse next door to it and two cottages - will be sold and the money split...
...seemingly smooth divorce bucks the trend of exorbitant payouts between wealthy couples. Eight months ago, in a particularly acrimonious split, Sir Paul McCartney was ordered by a judge to pay Heather Mills more than $45 million. And yesterday, former Armani model Slavica Ecclestone confirmed she will divorce her husband Bernie Ecclestone, the former chief of Formula One racing, whose fortune is estimated at $3.6 billion. Lawyers are already predicting that Slavica could walk away with half of her husband's fortune, making it the highest settlement to a spouse in legal history. It's unknown whether they signed a prenuptial...
...psychological identity crisis characterized by the hackneyed struggle between ghetto hustler and superstar. A disorder once quarantined to gangster rap—see case studies such as T.I.’s “T.I. vs. T.I.P” and Cassidy’s “Split Personality”—it has infected one of R&B’s most beloved starlets. Now we can add Beyoncé to that ever-expanding list of schizophrenic artists. With the release of “I am... Sasha Fierce,” Beyoncé Knowles...
...sang Morrissey on the greatest-hits-mocking “Paint a Vulgar Picture” from The Smiths’ fourth and final studio album, “Strangeways, Here We Come.” Despite these righteous words, the band—who split in 1987—are now releasing their eighth compilation album, “The Sound of the Smiths.” The two disc release includes every one of the classics that have already been included on their myriad greatest hits collections, but it also throws in a significant number of rarities...