i just saw this on ESPN......strahan was ordered to pay his wife 15.3 million....over half his net worth according to ESPN. half their marital assets and 20% of his salary each season.....not to mention after all that the judge tacked on a few hundred thou for child support. this sickens me.....some skank marries someone 7 years ago and she is entitled to all that, i dont think so. i bet that gold digger sat on her a$$ all day and ate bon bons....so that entitles her to half of all he worked for? i know she should get something but come on.....this is nonsence, men are always screwed in divorce.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2730126 Heres the link....looks like Strahan knew what was coming, agreed to this stuff in the pre-nups.
Just shows rich athletes need to be careful when choosing a wife. That was one of the nastiest divorce cases in a while. Strahan can blame no one but himself.
She accused him of being gay last year. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/428519p-361365c.html Strahan's divorce trial gets real ugly By AUSTIN FENNER and DAVE GOLDINER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Michael Strahan's nasty divorce trial hit a new low yesterday - as his estranged wife suggested the Giants sack king and handsome married TV doctor Ian Smith are more than just friends. After the couple's marriage collapsed, "Michael moved into Ian's one-bedroom apartment," Jean Strahan told reporters after another bruising day in divorce court. "And you can say an alternative lifestyle sprouted," she added, though her lawyer stopped her before she could elaborate. The blond mother of two dropped the bombshell after the burly gridiron great made her cry in court when he testified that he couldn't remember her birthday. "He basically denied we ever existed," Jean Strahan, 41, said angrily. "It was devastating to hear." Michael Strahan himself hinted at some controversy when he said in court that he wasn't sure whether one of his love letters was addressed to "Jean" or "John." "I've been accused ..." Strahan, 34, quipped on the witness stand before cutting himself off in midsentence and flashing his gap-toothed smile. Strahan's lawyer rejected any hint that there's anything more than a friendship between his client and Smith. "It sounds like sour grapes by someone who doesn't like what's going on in the court," said attorney Robert Penza. Ian Smith derided Jean Strahan's comments as "absolutely ridiculous." "This is laughable," said Smith, a best-selling author and medical correspondent for ABC's "The View." "I am a very happily married man." Later, Jean Strahan's lawyer tried to back away a bit. "I don't think she's making a definitive allegation," said Ellen Marshall, the lawyer. "Couples have private squabbles. This is one of them." Smith's name has come up several times in the bitter Strahan vs. Strahan divorce case, which seems to get uglier by the day - rife with allegations of infidelity and arguments over who's the bigger spender. Jean Strahan said she was miffed when her husband brought Smith into the hospital room when she gave birth to twin girls in 2004. She also charged that Smith hooked Strahan up with extramarital affairs with women in Los Angeles and Toronto - claims the NFL star has repeatedly denied. When things really got ugly last year, Smith put Strahan up at his upper East Side pad after the athlete's marriage imploded. The doctor insisted he was simply doing what anyone would do for a friend in need. "Michael Strahan is one of my best friends and needed a place to stay after he was kicked out of his own home," Smith said. "I let him sleep on my couch as any best friend would do." Smith, 36, wed his longtime girlfriend, high-powered Chicago lawyer Triste Lieteau, last year in a glittering candlelit ceremony at the Rainbow Room. Even before Jean Strahan's explosive comments, things were already testy as the Strahans sparred over their big-bucks divorce in Essex County Family Court in Newark. Her lawyer, Marshall, unveiled a string of sticky-sweet love letters in an effort to debunk Michael Strahan's claim that his wife abandoned their marriage. "It's my first day of camp, I already miss you," Strahan wrote from Giants training camp in 2004. In another letter, the 275-pound defensive tackle wrote the words "I love you" over and over - 24 times in all. "Thanks for taking care of me," he wrote to her after an injury. "I promise to always take care of you." Jean Strahan kept hundreds of gooey love letters to document their romance. But she burst into tears when Strahan, sitting just 6 feet away, said he didn't know why one was dated March 22. It turns out that is her birthday. He also said he didn't remember several cards, including one created from the ultrasound image of their twins during her pregnancy. "I compiled them all because it's the only history of our love," Jean Strahan said. "That's going to be the only history of us together."
Let this be a lesson. Marriage is for suckers. Date whomever you want, and if they start staying at your place, make sure they have their own residence. Pay for it, if you have to. Oh, and wear condoms.
for someone as good with the ladies as you are (that was a serious statement btw), it surprises me that you've already been married AND divorced.
Why not just get tested with your parnter and use the pill? Why must I wear a condom? They don't feel right.
I can't really feel too sorry for him when the pre nup that gives away half his fortune was his idea. What an indiot.
He was sitting in front of me at a screening of Brokeback Mountain. So I said Michael Strrrray-han....how about THEM cowboys.
Why sign a prenup if you are giving up 50% at the end and 20% a year? Who was the brilliant lawyer who drew that contract up? DD
I remember when I thought Eddie Murphy was just kidding about the whole "half" thing. After learning that it really can and does happen I think it is bs. Why should some broad get half of my earnings and assets if we're splitting up. I just think it is total bs and unfair.
