Didn’t stay friends: Depp and Hurd, Pitt and Jolie and other stars who stalked each other after divorce

Insults, courts and mutual accusations – what these ex-spouses did not have.

The singer and director’s divorce turned out to be outrageous as it was accompanied by several tricky rumors. Madonna was said to have cheated on Richie with baseball player Alex Rodriguez (yes, the one who later dated Jennifer Lopez), and marriage issues arose due to Madonna being fond of Kabbalah. When the divorce was finalized, Ritchie received between $76 million and $92 million from Madonna, according to Reuters. The two were rather stingy with compliments after the divorce, hinting that they felt hurt in the marriage.

“I got into a soap opera and lived there for quite a long period of my life,” Richie admitted.

“There were times when I felt imprisoned,” Madonna said.

Officially, the singer and the football player were not married, but still lived together for 12 years. During this time, they had two sons and many considered the couple to be ideal, despite Shakira being 10 years older than Pique. However, last year everything fell apart. Pique started an affair with a 22-year-old student who worked in his office, and Shakira seems to have decided to take revenge on her ex for this betrayal in public.

The singer has already recorded several songs in which she humiliates Pique and her new lover with offensive comparisons, and places a human-sized witch doll on the balcony to scare her former stepmother. These were almost comedic stories – Shakira hinted that she found out about Peak’s betrayal by eating a box of her favorite jam from the fridge.

Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin were married from 1993 to 2002. The drama of the divorce lasted four years, the ex-spouses having not been able to agree on the custody of their daughter Ireland. In the expressions, they also did not hesitate. Baldwin once called Kim “a rude, thoughtless little pig,” and she called him “a homegrown megalomaniacal bully.”

Basinger’s father also said his former son-in-law had anger management issues. By 2008, hundreds of court documents from 91 trials had accumulated. But while Kim and Alec cooled off a bit in 2016, the actress admitted the relationship was back to normal.

This is one of the most resounding divorces of recent years. As perfect as their family life seems, the separation turns out to be just as contentious. Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, later accusing Pitt of domestic violence. In 2019, the formalities were settled, but not all – Brad and Angelina still cannot share custody of the children, although during this time the couple’s eldest adopted son had already reached the age of majority, and the five other children will soon become adults.

This lawsuit was not enough for the couple – the actors quarreled over the vineyard they owned together. Pitt accused the ex-wife of selling her share without her knowledge. In general, the end and the edge of the showdown are not yet in sight. It looks like these two will fight until retirement.

Audiences followed this couple’s trial as a tense detective with thriller elements. They only spent a year in marriage, but they shook each other’s nerves after that for almost five years! Immediately after the breakup, Amber accused Depp of abuse.

Johnny couldn’t stand this and sued for defamation, first against The Sun, which published Hurd’s confession, and then against his ex-wife herself. The Depp v Heard trial began in April 2022 and ended with Johnny winning. The actress tried to resist for a while, filing lawsuits, but finally gave in and agreed to pay her ex-husband $1 million in restitution.