Apart from the perceived happily ever after ending of a classic rom-com, those celebrity hookups we see in the gossip columns infrequently work out. Not that every single one of them is doomed, but more often than not after a few years, the Brangelina’s and Bennifer’s of this world fall apart.

While there are several lessons from these failed relationships, not coming up with a portmanteau isn’t one of them. Divorce being expensive is one, and the reason, therefore, can be the same, no matter what the actual reason. Sometimes, you realize you don’t want to split, as one of these celebrity encounters proved.

Michael Douglas and Diandra Luker – $45 Million

Featured in the 2022 TV special “The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards,” the American actor/producer Michael Douglas has been happily married to fellow actress Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000. But tying the knot with the woman of his dreams may have cost Douglas a reported fortune of $45 million.

Douglas and his first wife, Diandra Luker, only finalized their divorce in 2000. After being together since 1977, the former couple’s separation was a lengthy and presumably painful one. In the end, Luker got away not only with $45 million but also with a massive Santa Barbara estate.