The owner of Monaco football club has been ordered to pay
a world record divorce settlement of more than £2.6 billion to his ex-wife.
Judges in Switzerland said Dmitry Rybolovlev, age 47 has
to give Elena Rybolovleva, who was with him for 24 years, a very precise
4,020,555,987 Swiss francs and 20 centimes.
In current Sterling rates, this amounts to £2,681,297,538
and 78 pence, an estimate of half the Russian oligarch’s entire fortune.
It follow a six year legal saga in which Mr Rybolovlev,
who made his billions through a successful fertilizer business, bitterly
contested Ms Rybolovlev’s claims to two of the most expensive properties in the
USA and a £100million Greek island.
Now Mr Rybolovlev must sign a cheque for the incredible
sum in the Swiss city of Geneva, where Ms Rybolovlev lives in a lakeside
mansion.
It’s recorded as most expensive divorce in the world. The
settlement which has been reported by Swiss media is far higher than the £1.5
billion paid by art heir Alec Wildenstein to his ex wife, Jocelyne.