10 Most Expensive Divorce Settlements Ever



4. Craig and Wendy McCaw

Settlement amount : $460 million

Craig McCaw, Seattle area business man and the founder of McCaw cellular group split with his wife in 1998 with a settlement amount of $460 million. The divorce took place just a few years later after he sold his company to AT&T for somewhere $11 - $12 billion. The settlement made Wendy rich as it was in form of shares, of Nextel. She purchased the Santa Barbara News Press and found herself to be on the Forbes list of 400 richest Americans, but she soon dropped down.