Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness are in the thick of a very tangled split.
Things shouldn’t have been this complicated — and for a while, it seemed like they wouldn’t be. At first everything looked amicable. But in recent weeks it has become clear to insiders that the Greatest Showman star and his now-estranged wife aren’t going to have an easy time dividing assets and going their separate ways.
Emotionally speaking, those difficulties have cropped up because of the 56-year-old A-list actor’s recent (or maybe not-so-recent) connection to his fiery new flame Sutton Foster. Plus, legally speaking, there’s an entirely separate issue here: Hugh and his 69-year-old former partner didn’t have a prenup! Uh-oh!!
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According to an insider who spoke to DailyMail.com on Wednesday about it, the Wolverine legend and his estranged spouse are facing the real possibility of a “messy” split as they try to divide up what is reported as a fortune worth around $250 million.
Per that source, Furness has been struggling with “resentment and an imbalance of power” over the final few years of her and Hugh’s 27-year-long marriage, too. Oof.
At first, both parties were dead-set on filing for the split before Christmas. However, the hectic holidays tripped them up, as did Jackman’s second star turn in The Music Man alongside Foster — in addition to Furness’ anger over it. But the biggest stumbling block was the lack of a prenup! The insider explained to DM:
“One of the biggest reasons why they haven’t yet filed is that they never had a prenup. When they got married, they thought it would be forever. Who doesn’t? At the time, neither of them expected Hugh’s career to get as enormous as it has.”
No kidding…
They’ve been together from before he’d ever heard of the X-Men or Wolverine or before the world had heard of him. Seriously, who knew??
The source went on to state the obvious — that considering the lack of prenup and Hugh’s fortune amassed during their long union, things are about to get super complicated for the divorcing duo:
“Because there was no prenup, and he made a fortune during their marriage, this divorce is not going to be cut and dry. It may even get messy because the stakes are high. A lot of moving parts need to be worked out and there is a huge amount of money involved.”
Yikes!
The lawyers must be salivating at the thought of this… all those meetings and hearings and filings… all those billable hours… LOLz!
The insider did insist that both Hugh and Deborra-Lee want to “make this as easy as possible,” which is certainly a nice sentiment. But after nearly three full decades together and Jackman becoming such a massive (and well-monied) film star over that period, “it’s not quite that easy.”
Further complicating matters here is the insider’s final claim: that Hugh and Deborra-Lee are “no longer friends.” So sad. The duo has SUCH a long history together, having first met in 1995 on the set of the Australian television series Correlli before eventually adopting son Oscar, now 23, in 2000 and daughter Ava, now 19, in 2005. At this point, though, the rift has widened:
“Hugh and Deborra-Lee are cordial to each other, but they are no longer friends. They put their differences aside to co-parent and he cares a lot about his children.”
Ugh. Sounds like the road to Splitsville for these two is going to get a lot bumpier in the short-term before it can (hopefully?) smooth out in the long run.
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