Bill and Melinda Gates divorce: A look at most EXPENSIVE divorces in history

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos ended their marriage in 2019 and finalised their divorce the same year. In March, MacKenzie Scott remarried Seattle science teacher Dan Jewett. She had received a 4 percent stake in Amazon, worth more than $36 billion, as part of the divorce settlement.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki split after eight years of marriage in 2015. According to a Business Insider report, the pair had reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount of money. Brin currently has a net worth of roughly $99 billion.

Steve and Elaine Wynn, the co-founders of Wynn Resorts, divorced for a second time in 2010. As part of the settlement reached between Steve and Elaine, the latter received 11 million shares of the casino giant worth an estimated $795 million at that time. Elaine is now worth $2.3 billion. 

Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi divorced his wife Sandra Daly in 1974 and their settlement totaled a then-record $874 million dollars. 

Formula One executive Bernie Ecclestone, one of the richest people in the United Kingdom, divorced Croatian model Slavica Radić in 2009.The settlement was estimated at $1.2 billion. The details of their settlement are still under cover, but some reports claimed that Radić seems to be the one paying Ecclestone.