Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovley set to pay Ex wife $4.5 Billion making it the worlds most expensive divorce

Madam Elena cool cash for you after 23 years of marriage, This is serious trouble for Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who made billions in the Russian potash trade and now co-owns the professional soccer club AS Monaco, is set to pay his ex-wife Elena Rybolovleva more than $4.5 billion in their divorce settlement. (Lionel Cironneau/The Associated Press) 

Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev will lose half his wealth after being ordered to pay his former wife $4.5 billion in a settlement dubbed the “most expensive divorce in history.”

Elena Rybolovleva’s lawyer Marc Bonnant said the order from a Geneva court was unprecedented, and “this record judgment is a complete victory.” see more
However, Rybolovlev’s spokesman Sergey Chernitsyn said the divorce was still a “win” for the oligarch. The two had been battling over the settlement for six years, after Elena Rybolovleva, the oligarch’s wife of 23 years, filed for divorce.Rybolovlev’s total wealth is estimated at $8.8 billion, according to the 2014 Forbes list of billionaires

He made most of his money from the $6.5 billion sale of his stake in Russia’s largest potassium fertilizer company in 2010. Rybolovlev is also known as the owner of the Monaco Football Club, which plays in the top French soccer league.

Rybolovlev made headlines when he bought the Palm Beach Maison de L’Amitie from Donald Trump for reported $95 million in 2008. In 2012, the Rybolovlev’s then 21-year-old daughter Ekaterina bought Manhattan’s most expensive apartment — the penthouse on Central Park West which cost $88 million.

A trust set up in Ekaterina’s name also reportedly own Scorpios, the Greek island where Jackie Kennedy married the former owner of the island, Aristotle Onassis, in 1968.