When you marry you contribute to the success of your partner. I've been married for 41 years and can verify that quite well. You don't live as single people do-you share wealth and should. You also share bad health, grief and failure. It's a well rounded life together, not individually.

I just spent a long while researching both Pat and John Kluge. They were married for 9 years it seems. Take into consideration what 1.6 million a week is from a man who is worth - at the time they divorced - 5.2 BILLION dollars. It's nothing unless you are looking at it from your own financial perspective in life.

Judgment requires perspective and most times it's eclipsed by substantial jealousy of that amount of money.

And finally, neither Pat nor John have the best character and have led the most respectable lives. They were both married to others when they met and cheated on their spouses to hook up together.

Questionable types with money to burn.

One last thing. Patricia is on the board for New York University. She's educated in her own rite.

What actually went wrong here is hers to know but this 62 year old woman is not stupid nor does she lack accomplishments.

Exactly--she didn't earn any of the money she had. She got the money in a divorce settlement. She was a nude model. She should have taken that money and lived a nice and comfortable life. She wanted more... Imagine!

yes....in this case it wasn't the wife 'contributing to the success of the man'. this guy made his business starting in the 60's and sold it in 1986 a mere 5 years after he was married to this gold digger. One doesn't have a business for 20+ years and then all of a sudden a wife comes along and it's worth billions, he was a german immigrant who worked his butt off for it and she basically raped him for $1.6 million a week...she was married for 9 years but he sold his biz after only 5 years of their marriage...someone please, oh please justify what she could have done in those 5 years that made her worth 1.6 million per week. I'd like to hear something that had some real logic in the justification not just some romantic drivel about how she contributed to her him by her 'love' for him.

I'm a fan of the notion that when people ARE partners in a relationship that there is the kind of participation in each other's lives that contributes to the financial success of the partnership but 5 years??? after 20+ years of work? nope, i don't get it.

so no wonder she crashed, she and her new husband who thought they knew so much about managing and making money...apparently John was the one who knew about how to handle money, she only knew how to spend it.

haha, sounds like a few angry men who have gone through a divorce......laws are laws.............she deserves every penny