Years ago, country star Mark Chestnut lamented his own divorce by singing: "I got the Jeep she got the palace." Over in Dubai this week, meanwhile, Mrs. Al Maktoum made out a little better:
A British court on Tuesday ordered the ruler of Dubai to pay his ex-wife and their children close to 550 million pounds ($730 million), in one of the most expensive divorce settlements in British history.
The High Court said Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum must pay 251.5 million pounds to his sixth wife, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, and make ongoing payments for their children Al Jalila, 14, and Zayed, 9, underpinned by a bank guarantee of 290 million pounds.
Wait um back up here for just a second...this was the sixth wife?
Are they all divorced from him or do they have some sort of special Supreme Ruler situation over there?
And just this ONE gets $700M? How much did the others get?
