Here are a few of the most interesting gold diggers!
9 - Crystal Harris Whenever you think of Hugh Hefner and his
playgirls, your mind definitely gravitates to gold digging!
It’s definitely about the fame and the power for most of the girls!
His third wife, Crystal Harris is a special case of gold digger.
She was the type to admit her ways!
As you’d expect, she was a former Playboy cover star.
Harris met Hefner during a Halloween party at the Playboy mansion in 2008.
They hit it off and got engaged three years later.
However, she called off their wedding five days before the wedding was supposed to take
place!
That month’s cover of Playboy had already been designed featuring her as Mrs. Crystal
Hefner.
Because she had cold feet, a sticker was placed on the cover over Harris that read “Runaway
Bride.”
On top of canceling the wedding, Harris appeared on a radio show, where she revealed that she
didn’t find Hefner attractive at all!
Yep, she pretty much admitted she was just there for the fame and money.
However, she later apologized for her comments.
And Hefner even took her back!
They ended up tying the knot on New Year’s Eve 2012 at the Playboy mansion!
Well, obviously he had no concerns about whatever she said.
Hugh Hefner's marriage to Crystal Harris might have seemed like a sham, but to their credit,
they seemed happy together.
Harris remained married to Hefner all the way until his last days.
However, Harris was reportedly not included in Hefner’s will after they signed an iron-clad
prenup.
The Playboy founder’s $43-million dollar fortune was divided between his four children.
But apparently, Harris was still going to be quote “looked after”.
8 - Evelyn Lozada Evelyn Lozada may just be the greatest gold
digger of the 2000s, even if she didn’t get the most money!
It’s just that her track record lets us know what she’s really about.
Lozada was last engaged to ex-superstar baseball player Carl Crawford for close to three years.
They got engaged in Christmas 2013 and they had a kid together in 2014.
But in 2017, she moved on!
That was the same year Crawford called it quits in baseball.
You MAY think that it’s because he’s not bringing home the big checks anymore.
That IS true.
But, he still had plenty of money in the bank.
She actually wanted to stay together!
The problem was her.
Apparently, Crawford got cold feet when Evelyn played hardball on a prenup.
She supposedly demanded HALF of his fortune in their prenup.
What’s the point of a prenup if she’s just gonna take half?!
Obviously, he decided not to sign the prenup and they never got married.
Smart move!
The breakup wasn’t exactly shocking for anyone because Evelyn has a reputation of
gold-digging professional athletes.
Reportedly, even Crawford’s former teammates’ WIVES called her out as a “gold digger.”
This isn’t the first time Lozada was accused of gold-digging.
She was very briefly married to former Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson.
They got divorced in 2012.
Johnson last played in 2011.
And before Chad Johnson she was engaged to Antoine Walker.
They broke up in 2009.
Walker last played in 2008.
Are you seeing the pattern here yet?
Antoine Walker accused her of ditching their relationship when he ran into financial trouble.
He went on a radio show and said that Evelyn reaped a lot of benefits when the cash was
coming in.
But when money got tight, she chose to leave.
Yep, that’s a life lesson Walker had to learn the hard way.
Don’t be with anyone who wouldn’t do the same for you!
7 - MacKenzie Bezos Okay okay.
Let’s get one thing straight.
The term ‘gold digger’ certainly doesn’t apply to all marriages.
And even if a split ends up with the other person getting a lot of money, it doesn’t
mean that someone was just in it for the money all along!
And the Bezos divorce is the biggest proof of that.
MacKenzie Bezos got the most money in history from a divorce!
When the divorce first became public, the Internet was shocked by the fact that Jeff
didn't have a prenup to protect his billions.
But they had been together since Jeff’s start, when he didn’t have much money.
What they should have noticed was that Jeff is the one that cheated and filed for divorce.
They were married a year before Amazon was founded.
Even though technically Jeff made all those billions during the marriage, that’s not
to say MacKenzie’s support didn’t have any influence on his success in any way.
Neither Jeff nor MacKenzie knew that Amazon was going to be as successful as it is.
She was taking on the risk the same as he was.
If Amazon failed, she would have been responsible with any of Jeff’s financial problems as
well.
MacKenzie has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton and worked for Jeff Bezos when he was a hedge
fund manager before Amazon was conceived.
They got married in 1993 and Amazon was started a year later in the back of their family garage.
She stepped away from Amazon in its early years to raise their four children.
In short, she’s not exactly someone who couldn’t have made her own money.
And without her support, who knows how things could have turned out for Jeff Bezos.
MacKenzie almost certainly gave up her own professional ambitions to further his, and
may well have created her own, independent fortune had Jeff never been in the picture.
But they decided to team up and they both did their part.
So in this instance, we don’t think it’s unfair for her to take half, especially when
Jeff messed up.
After their divorce settlement, MacKenzie instantly became one of the world’s richest
women thanks to an estimated $35.7 billion that went straight into her personal account!
6 - Oksana Grigorieva Oksana Grigorieva is no stranger to dating
men with money!
She’s a Russian singer-songwriter and pianist who grew up in Russia.
Her first marriage was in 1989, when she was married for three months to a random Russian
lawyer.
That Russian lawyer cash flow wasn’t enough for her so in 1992, she married a British
artist named Nicholas Rowland.
But then THEY broke up and she started a relationship with actor Timothy Dalton, who played James
Bond in a couple of Bond movies.
They had a kid together but their relationship ended in 2003.
However, she really hit the jackpot in 2007 when she started dating Mel Gibson!
They never got married, but they had a daughter together in 2009.
Is this theme starting to sound familiar?
By April 2010 they had already split up.
To make a long story short, they started going to court over child support payments.
There were also the, let’s just call it, allegations she had against Mel Gibson.
Gibson wasn’t allowed to go near her or their daughter!
In 2010, Gibson offered her a settlement worth approximately $15 million dollars, but she
refused it.
That backfired on her because in 2011 when she settled with Gibson, she got a lot less.
She was awarded $750,000 dollars and a house to live in until their daughter Lucia turns
18.
After that the house would be sold, and the money would turn into a trust fund for Lucia.
A couple of years later, she sued her lawyers because she said they gave her bad advice!
She said that they had gotten her to sign a poor agreement.
And of course, she broke the agreement she had!
In 2014, Oksana chose to talk about Mel Gibson on Howard Stern's radio show.
That was a mistake that cost her almost $400,000 dollars because under their agreement, she
wasn’t supposed to discuss him at all!
Oksana filed for bankruptcy shortly after her interview on Stern.
She claimed that she was so broke, she had only $10 in cash to her name and $48,000 dollars
in assets.
Her debt came in at a staggering half a million dollars!
Should have just taken that 14 million dollar settlement earlier!
But she probably would have gone broke anyways…..
5 - Cris Judd Who says that women are the only gold diggers
out there?
There are definitely guys out there doing the same thing!
Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd met back in 2000 when he was hired to direct and dance in her
music video, Love Don't Cost A Thing.
They had a whirlwind romance and got married less than a year later in September 2001.
But by June 2002, they were already divorced!
The loss of privacy because of her superstardom 'bothered' him, but apparently, that’s not
the reason why they divorced – he’s been quoted multiple times saying that things just
didn’t work out.
But after being married for ONLY around 9 months, Cris got away with $6.6 million dollars!
Now, sure, $6.6 million might not seem like much compared to the other mega-sized divorce
settlements.
But if you do the math here, JLo was paying him roughly $750,000 per month of marriage!
You would think that Kevin Federline would have made this list, but he actually didn’t
get too much.
Britney and Kevin Fed got married after only three months of dating.
This was while Kevin’s ex-girlfriend was pregnant with his kid.
They were married for less than three years, and he ended up only getting $20,000 dollars
per month in child support from Britney.
Yep, Cris Judd definitely secured the bag!
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4 - The Ecclestone Situation Wait a minute, Billionaire Bernie Ecclestone
is a gold digger?!
Technically…..sorta!
It’s an interesting situation.
And that’s why it made it on this list!
Formula One billionaire Bernie Ecclestone may be the world's best-kept man because of
a technicality.
Since his divorce from his second wife, Slavica, he’s received more than half a BILLION dollars
from his ex-wife's trust fund!
Needless to say, It’s a very unusual arrangement.
Rather than the billionaire giving money to his ex wife after getting divorced, she paid
him roughly $100 million a year!
When he and Slavica, who’s 28 years younger AND almost a foot taller, divorced in 2009,
most people assumed that she was gonna get one of the biggest divorce settlements in
history.
They had been married for 24 years so you kinda knew what was gonna happen.
After all, typically, the wealthier spouse is the one who pays the ex.
And Bernie Ecclestone, with a net worth of $3.1 billion at that time, is plenty wealthy.
So why did she end up paying HIM?
Well, in the late 90s, Ecclestone's assets were transferred into Slavica's name when
he was suffering from serious heart problems.
He had a triple bypass in 1999.
If he didn’t make it, the inheritance would have been left to his daughters.
However, the problem is the money would have been subjected to British taxes at the rate
of a whopping 40%!
So yep…..he transferred everything to his wife’s name.
So, while Bernie was the one who made the billions, his ex-wife technically held the
deeds and pink slips on a number of his assets.
So, it looked like SHE was the wealthier one to the courts!
Interestingly enough, today Bernie is married to an even YOUNGER woman than his second wife.
And Bernie and Fabiana Flosi are about to have their first kid together!
Yep, he’s gonna be a dad at age EIGHTY-NINE!
3 - Jocelyn Wildenstein Jocelyn Wildenstein is as well known for her
HUGE divorce settlement as she is for her looks.
Jocelyn met ex-husband Alec Wildenstein in 1977 while on a safari with friends in Kenya.
Alec Wildenstein is a billionaire art dealer who came from a family of art collectors and
horse-racing experts.
After a year of marriage, Jocelyn started to use his wealth for extensive cosmetic surgeries.
She and Alec even got "his and her eye lifts."
According to a number of biographies, she kept changing her appearance to look more
"feline."
She spent millions of dollars on surgeries and kept a Lynx as a pet, often saying that
the lynx has perfect eyes.
Alec and Jocelyn Wildenstein divorced in 1999 and that entitled her to a whopping $2 and
a half billion dollars, and an annual $100 extra million for the following 13 years!
The funny thing was, even the judge told her not to use her alimony payments for any more
cosmetic surgery!
Despite being awarded THAT MUCH MONEY, she still filed for bankruptcy in 2018!
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2 - Anna Nicole Smith In her short but fast 39 years of life, Anna
Nicole Smith definitely left her mark on the world!
She was actually born Vickie Lynn Hogan.
She grew up poor and dropped out of high school in the 10th grade.
But that didn’t stop her from becoming one of the most famous faces during the '90s!
Her cover on Playboy and also her signing to Guess Jeans made her a household name.
But before she got famous, she met one person who would completely change her life.
In 1993, when she was 26, she met 89-year-old Texas oil tycoon billionaire James Howard
Marshall.
They had met while she was ahem, performing at a club for gentlemen!
They went on and got married the following year, despite a full 63 year difference!
Obviously, she immediately got the gold digger label.
She insisted that she married him for love, not for the money.
She said that Marshall took her out of a terrible place and cared for her and her son from her
first marriage, so in return, she decided to take care of him.
Well…..to be fair that’s definitely one type of love!
But we wouldn’t call that romance.
Anyways, a quick 13 months later, her new husband went on to the next life.
And much to the outrage of his family, Smith sued for half of her late husband's $1.6 billion
dollar estate!
She claimed that while he didn't include her in his will, he had intended to set up a trust
to provide for her, just like he did when he had set a trust for his family.
Marshall's son, who inherited almost the entire estate, argued that his dad had already been
adequately generous to his trophy wife.
He gave her plenty of gifts and treated her to a lavish lifestyle.
The whole thing went back and forth for a long time.
In 2006 she ended up at the United States Supreme Court still fighting for her inheritance
a full 11 years later!
She was initially awarded roughly $450 MILLION dollars, but that verdict was later dismissed.
The sad thing is that her and Marshall’s son both passed before the case could ultimately
be resolved years later.
1 - Milica Marjanovic Have you heard of Bojan Marjanovic?
He plays for the Detroit Pistons and he’s one of the tallest people in the NBA!
He and his wife have to keep brushing off the negative comments about their massive
height difference!
And at first glance, you may think this case is a classic gold digger case.
But apparently, they actually fell in love BEFORE he was rich and famous!
And she actually finds the comments people on the internet say about them to be really
funny!
Milica Marjanovic is a full TWO feet shorter than her 7-foot, three-inch-tall husband.
She often laughs about their height difference by posting photos and videos on social media
highlighting their two foot gap.
However, not all of the comments are well-meaning – some of them are clearly accusing her
of marrying the NBA star for the money only.
According to her, when someone’s truly happy and happy in life, just as she is, they don’t
pay attention to crazy comments.
People can think what they think!
And she’s right!
If the comments aren’t true, it doesn’t make sense to pay attention to them.
They’ve been together for more than a decade and now have two children.
Mrs. Marjanovic says she finds her husband's hectic schedule more challenging than the
fact that he towers over her BIG TIME.
Well, their used to be hectic schedule anyways before quarantine became a thing.
When they first started dating, she was mostly bothered by the fact that they couldn't make
any plans together because of his schedule.
Birthdays, anniversaries, and celebrations generally used to pass by without him being
around.
However, both of their families pretty much got used to his lifestyle.
Hey, whatever it takes to generate that cash flow!
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