A businessman in Spain has been ordered to pay €204,000 (Rs 1.7 crore approximately) as compensation to his ex-wife for 25 years of unpaid housework.
London has come to be known as the divorce capital, because of the multi-million pound settlements that have been awarded here. But as the judge observed, this case was “entirely out of the ordinary”.
The divorce case, touted to be the biggest in British legal history, involves a divorce settlement worth £554 million ($734 million), which is set to protect Princess Haya, who is the youngest of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum’s six wives, and her two children from the threat that he poses to their security.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to pay his estranged wife Veronica Lario 100,000 euros a day as part of a divorce settlement, the daily Corriere della Sera said on Friday.