The shocking way Steven Spielberg lost $ 100 million in divorce
His separation from 1989 from actor Amy Irving would prove to be expensive.
Regarding Hollywood, there is no shortage of stories about the astronomical quantities of money spent and won. And when famous couples separate, fortune can be at stake. But few expensive celebrity divorces can compare to that of the director Steven Spielberg . The legendary director was married to the actor Amy Irving From 1985 to 1989 and lost $ 100 million when they decided to separate, all due to an expensive error. Read the rest to find out more about their relationship and how it turned out to have such an important price for Spielberg.
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The couple met for the first time in 1975.
Irving has met her future husband by Brian Depalma , which had been with George Lucas When she auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star wars And then advised Irving to audition for Spielberg Third type dating . The actor and the director put it and soon shared a house and a dog named Elmer.
However, Irving, herself the daughter of the famous stage director Jules Irving , seemed to find life in the growing shadow of Jaws Difficult director, declaring in an interview of 1977 with Fatal Woman Magazine, "I never want to be known as' Steven Spielberg's girlfriend . I want to be Amy Irving first. "This tension would lead to their rupture in 1980, because Irving took the time to meet, according to the Los Angeles Times . Their split also led Irving to lose the role of Marion Ravenwood, who would go to Karen Allen , in The Raiders of the Lost Ark .
They met in 1985 - and quickly wrote a strange prenuptial agreement.
Speak Times , Irving and Spielberg resumed their relationship in 1985 and decided to marry after having become pregnant with sons Max . They got married later that year during a private ceremony. Somewhere between the two, the couple would have drawn up and signed a prenuptial agreement which described their income and their property and limited to what extent Irving would leave in the event of divorce. Although this is not surprising, the agreement was drawn up without the lawyers present - and was supposed to be written on The back of a cocktail towel . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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Their marriage finally collapsed.
After their marriage, Irving wanted to keep her professional life separated from that of her husband, never playing a role in her films in addition to providing the singing voice of Jessica Rabbit in the Spielberg Product Who wants Roger Rabbit's skin? However, their relationship continued to relax under the filmmaker devotion to his career , according Steven Spielberg: a life in movies , and intense shoots and meetings with the studio leaders that needed. "During my marriage to Steven, I felt like the woman of a politician. There were certain things expected from me that were certainly not me," said Irving Times In 1994.
At the beginning of 1989, rumors began to spread on Spielberg and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Star Kate Capshaw , who he would only marry two years later. On April 24, 1989, Irving and Spielberg announced that they had done The decision to divorce "In a spirit of benevolence", as reported by the united press.
Irving received half of Spielberg's income from their time together.
Irving brought Spielberg before the courts with the assertion that Napin's return agreement Forbes . The court concluded in favor of the actor, judging that by virtue of Californian law, Irving was entitled to half of all Spielberg income from the four years of their marriage - an impressive 100 million dollars.
Divorces of subsequent celebrities, including Mel Gibson ($ 425 million) , have since eclipsed Irving and the Spielberg regulations. However, it was the most expensive Hollywood divorce of his time. The split also cost the partial guard of Spielberg of his Max, who then exchanged years with each parent in A joint custody agreement , according The Chicago Tribune .
It was a drop in the bucket for the famous director.
Decades later, Spielberg remains married to Capshaw, with whom he welcomed six other children. It also has a net value of About $ 4 billion , according Forbes . Even at $ 219 million adjusted according to inflation, its payment in Irving is equivalent to only 5.475% of its current net value - or on what it spent in 2015 to build His mega-yacht .
