AND we’re now hearing that for some stupid fucking reason, she had no prenup with Ritchie and that he now stands to take HALF of the Vadge Empire, or roughly $250 million, which would put him among the diamond-encrusted-dildo ranks of divorcées Juanita Jordan (who took $168 million in a settlement last year with basketball legend Michael Jordan) and Anna Murdoch, who settled the costliest divorce ever to billionaire Rupert Murdoch for a cool $1.7 billion back in 1999.

Below, in honor of Proposition 8–which, if it passes, will outlaw gay marriage in California–we’ve prepared a timeline of notable celebrity divorces, beginning with Mary Pickford’s pioneering “quickie Reno divorce” in 1920 and including such highlights as Liz Taylor’s double divorces from Richard Burton and the ever-”complicated” Denise Richards-Charlie Sheen divide. For all you gays rushing to the altar before November, let these public disasters be a lesson: call your lawyer and whip up a prenup.  Now.

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