Why does a trophy wife of a rich businessman get millions of dollars during the divorce?
This is the 21st century and both the husband and the wife are fully aware at the outset (especially among the very wealthy) what the rules of governance are should they divorce. That is what the Prenuptual Agreement was written to deal with. Failure to deal with this reality so readily available before the wedding makes the divorce a proposition of “gettin’ paid for being laid” in our contemporary society as Elton John so eloquently stated in his hit song “Sweet Painted Ladies” from his smash album “Goodbye The Yellow Brick Road”. This would not be so if the marriage vows would contain the verbal contract of “In sickness and in health as well as poverty and wealth”. Legally, there is an unstated, but understood, precedent for it in realization of the fact that marriage is understood to be a 50/50 proposition. There is also the reality that if the husband is genuinely wealthy, he is already set up to survive the divorce but the “trophy wife” is probably not. In any event, she has the r
