Hollywood’s BIGGEST DIVORCES
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
The Hollywood mega-couple’s $715 million split in September 2016 was sudden, and shocked most of the known universe.
Jolie asked for full custody of their six children while Pitt was being investigated over allegations he got‘verbally abusive’ and ‘physical’ with Maddox on the pair’s private plane the day before Jolie filed for divorce.
The case was dismissed, but a flurry of ugly accusations followed, and their clashes over the kids wound up surfacing in public court documents. A judge ruled that Jolie could lose custody if she didn’t allow them each to form a‘healthy and strong relationship’ with their dad. She claimed he hadn’t paid her any meaningful child support, but Pitt’s lawyer hit back the next day, accusing her of manipulating media coverage to make her look like the better parent.
Even now, Jolie is furious that he turned their lives upside down, and refuses to clear the air. She has reportedly told friends she had never wanted to marry him in the first place.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
The A-listers met and fell in love on the set of the 1990 movie Days of Thunder. “He basically swept me off my feet,” Kidman told Vanity Fair. “I fell madly, passionately in love.”They adopted two children, but in 2001, Cruise abruptly filed for divorce, less than two months after they’d renewed their vows on their 10-year anniversary. According to reports in the New York Post at the time, when people asked why they were getting divorced, Cruise would say, “Ask Nicole. She knows”. The $544 million divorce was finalised on August 8, 2001, with many speculating that his devotion to Scientology and her refusal to follow suit caused the split. He continued to raise their children as Scientologists.
