I just read this story at E! Online:

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Phil Collins Trumps Paul McCartney in Mega-Divorce

Phil Collins' ex-wife may no longer be in his heart, but she'll definitely always have a place in his bank account.

The easy-rocking star has waved good-bye to marriage No. 3 and hello to a reported $46.68 million divorce settlement which, if accurate, shapes up to be the biggest ever celeb payout in British legal history, trumping even the astronomical amount Heather Mills received—said to be $45.37 million—from Paul McCartney earlier this year.

Collins, 57, and Orianne Cevey, 35, were married for seven years before separating in 2006. They have two children together, sons Nicolas, 8, and Matthew, 4.

It isn't the first time relationship woes have caused a dip in the Genesis frontman's fortunes, with Britain's Daily Telegraph even claiming that divorce settlements have eaten into as much as one-third of his estimated $280 million net worth, nearly $84 million going to his ex-wives.

After taking advantage of technological advances and infamously dumping wife No. 2, Jill Tavelman, by fax back in 1994, he was forced to pay $34 million.

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There were two excellent comments:

'I look at it this way..it costs nothing to Date and Get married but She'd want to be paid for it at the End..'

and

'She got $6.7 Million for each year of having sex with Phil. She really is a high priced prostitute.'

This just goes to show you, don't get married if you have a lot of money! I don't know about the UK, but the rule of thumb in this country ought to be if you're wealthy enough to be taxed to death by Bama, then you shouldn't get married.

But if you do decide to get married and you have a lot of money, try to avoid getting a gold digging bitch because all of these women pull the same shenanigan in the end. I know the women out there will say the wife is entitled to some cash because she married the bastard and had to put up with his sh*t, but at what point do these women become overpriced hookers? And if you think that's what the bastard was looking for all along was an overpriced hooker, then tell me this, what guy wants the same old hooker everyday for 6 years? I don't see any hands raised out there.

Get real. Give this guy his money back and blacklist the gold digger.