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Patrizia Reggiani admitted paying $365,000 to have her ex-husband, Gucci heir Maurizio Gucci, shot dead. Two decades later, a court said his estate still owed her 1.1 million Swiss francs a year for life. Maurizio had sold his half of Gucci for about $170 million. Witnesses said $860,000 a year in alimony wasn't enough for her. She wanted all of it. Her old motto: "I would rather weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle." In 1995, a hitman was waiting for him outside his Milan office. She later said it was worth every penny. In 1998, a Milan court gave her 29 years. The hitman got life. She walked out of prison in 2016. Then the money question came back. In 2017, a Milan appeals court ruled that the 1993 deal Maurizio signed, giving her 1.1 million Swiss francs a year for life, still stood. Her own daughters were told to pay it. "Any other opinion belongs to the moral, rather than the strictly judicial, sphere," the court wrote. In the video below, she describes the morning police came: "What is this, a robbery?" And: "I didn't think they'd catch me." She ordered his murder and was still owed his money. Should the court have let her keep a single franc, yes or no?

Shaquille O'Neal earned about $292 million in NBA salary. He still tells his six kids, "We ain't rich. I'm rich." Bloomberg counted $292.2 million in paychecks over his 19 seasons. Forbes put his net worth at over $400 million in 2016, after a lifetime brand deal it expected to bring him $230 million to $270 million. His kids have to earn their own. On the Earn Your Leisure podcast in 2021, he said they need a bachelor's or master's degree first. If they want him to invest in a company, they have to pitch it to him. "I'm not giving you nothing," he said. In the video below, he says that to touch his money "you've got to have three degrees," and that he has to teach his kids, "we're not rich. I'm rich." He also tells the story of his oldest son getting all A's. Shaq told him he could get whatever he wanted, then got a call from Tesla and told him to go "across the street in a Honda" instead. $292 million in salary, and straight A's still didn't get his son a Tesla. Smart dad, or too tough on his own kids?

Ethan Klein built a podcast that pulls 12.5 million YouTube views a month. This week he gave up his share of all of it to the wife he cheated on. In 2022 he sat on his own show and called cheating "so despicable." Oct 22: H3 goes on indefinite hiatus. Oct 23: Hila says he was in an affair for over 6 months. The same day the crew says they won't work with him "involved or profiting in any way." Hours later Ethan says he is removing his ownership and financial stakes in the podcasts, Teddy Fresh, Teddy Glow and every joint venture he would profit from. No court ordered it. He did it himself. In the video below, 2022 Ethan asks a cheater: "Was it worth it?" The case for Ethan: he walked away from the money on his own. The case for Hila: she built it with him and was lied to for 6 months. Was the affair worth 12.5 million views a month?

Kenny Rogers' ex-wife asked for $60 million in their divorce. He handed it over without a fight. A divorce lawyer later called it "a practically unheard of amount at that time." In the video below, Kenny tells Anderson Cooper about his failed marriages: "I take the blame for it because I think it's a man's responsibility to protect that relationship and I didn't do that." Marianne Gordon was his fourth wife. They met on Hee Haw, married in 1977, and had a son, Christopher. After the boy was born, she stopped touring with him and stayed home to raise him. When he came home from the road, their lifestyles were clashing. In 1993, after 16 years, it was over. The divorce was uncontested. The terms were never published. The $60 million figure comes from press accounts. Kenny never disputed it. In 2006 he told the Irish Independent: "Marianne really did deserve the 60 million." The case for Marianne: she gave up the road, raised their son, and held the marriage together for 16 years. The case against: $60 million was more than almost anyone had ever paid in a divorce, for a marriage he says failed on his watch. So did Marianne earn every cent of $60 million, or did Kenny pay $60 million to buy back his guilt?

Michael Jordan made about $90 million in salary across his entire NBA career. His divorce reportedly cost $168 million. He married Juanita Vanoy at 3:30 a.m. at a Las Vegas chapel in 1989. No prenup. Her own lawyer had drafted one. It was never signed. So he signed a postnup instead. His lawyers said it gave her far more than Illinois law would have. She filed for divorce in 2002. They reconciled. In December 2006 it was over. 17 years, three kids. The reported settlement: $168 million and the seven-acre estate outside Chicago. He also covered about $2.1 million in legal fees. The twist: when Jordan married again in 2013, he reportedly made sure it never happened twice. Yvette Prieto's prenup: $1 million for every year of marriage. $5 million a year after year 10. In the video below, back in 1991, Juanita says it herself: "I knew what I was getting into when I got married to Michael." The case for Juanita: 17 years, three kids, and she married him before he won a single title. The case for Michael: she signed the postnup, and he made the money on the court. Was $168 million fair for 17 years, or should the postnup have capped it?

Brendan Fraser told a court he was earning more than $200,000 a month and losing $87,000 of it. His ex-wife told the same court he had hidden $9 million. They married in 1998 and divorced in 2007, after nine years and three sons. The settlement was $900,000 a year. The terms: $50,000 a month to her, $25,000 a month for the boys. The alimony could be cut only if his gross income fell below $3 million a year. The court record: March 2013: he filed in Stamford Superior Court in Connecticut to reduce the payments. $200,000 a month was the income he reported in that filing. More than half of it went to agents, he said. $34,000 a month went to income tax. $5,000 went to the mortgage. $87,000 a month was what he said he was short after all of it. $0 was the future income he had reported when they settled in 2007. $9 million in film contracts was what she said he was hiding when he reported it. Her claim: fraud. She told the court the $0 was not an honest number. His answer: he had no definite deals at the time, so he put down nothing. By then the body that earned the $3 million a year was coming apart. He has said the years of doing his own stunts cost him a laminectomy, a partial knee replacement and surgery on his vocal cords. The payments were monthly. The surgeries were not. The case for Afton: she signed a deal built on his earning power, raised three sons on it, and he reported zero future income the year he walked away from a franchise. The case for Brendan: the floor in the agreement was $3 million, he was still above it, and he went to court rather than stop paying. In the video below he says what the fight was actually for: "You're gonna have your battles, and if you remember who you're standing up for, you will prevail." He built the number when he was the biggest action star in the world. Should a man be held to it after the body that earned it gave out, or is a deal a deal?

Nas was ordered to pay his ex-wife Kelis $51,101 a month in 2009. By 2018 she was getting $8,000, and she went back to court for more. She says she came home with a 3-month-old baby to a foreclosure notice on the door. When she called him about it, she says his answer was "go f*** yourself." She filed for divorce in April 2009, seven months pregnant with their son Knight. The divorce was final in May 2010. The court record: $44,000 a month in temporary support was ordered in July 2009, a day after Knight was born. $20,000 was what his lawyer offered as a one-time payment instead. The judge said no. $51,101 a month was the December 2009 order: $40,454 spousal support and $10,647 child support. $2.5 million was what he testified he owed the IRS in back taxes. $8,000 a month in child support was the order once spousal support ended. February 2018: she filed to raise it, saying his income "would support a child support order in excess of $8,000 per month." March 2018: they settled on joint custody. Do the math. $51,101 a month is $613,212 a year. $8,000 a month is $96,000 a year. That is 84% less. Her claim: she always put the money down on their properties and he paid the mortgage. Then, she says, he stopped paying while she was in New York having the baby. The case for Kelis: "His needs and expenditures have materially changed since the Judgment has been entered." She also asked for half of school, child care and health costs. The case for Nas: "Didn't want to bring up money but since that's the fuel behind all of this," he wrote. "I paid for your cooking school cordon blue. The expensive yellow stove we had flown in from Europe. I helped pay for the remodeling of your house." In the video below, listen for what she says about ever asking him for money: "I have never, ever, ever asked that man for a penny." If you were her, would you have gone back to court for more than $8,000 a month?