Kate Perry's $26 Million Mistake

Russell Brand stands to make £20million from his divorce from pop star wife Perry

The comedian is in line for the huge lump sum in a 50/50 split of the couple's earnings even after just 14 months of marriage. Brand, 36, and Perry, 27, didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement when they married in October 2010 so under Californian law, he could be entitled to half of her fortune.

 A good California Girl shouldn't fall for that.  I thought the newer California kids were born with a pre-nup as an appendix to their birth certificate...  She should have known he was going to be trouble when he tweeted a picture of her sans makeup.

The Star reported that according to Forbes Magazine, Perry is worth £28million, a fortune that industry insiders said has rocked recently to at least £45million due to her non-stop touring and commercial ventures. Brand, in contrast, has a net worth of about £11million from his stand-up tours and a string of movies including Get Him To The Greek and the remake of the Dudley Moore film Arthur.

 So you add the 45 and 11, get 56, divide by two and 28, for a net gain of £17 million. Converting from British funny money¹, that amounts to $26 million, not a bad haul for having to listen to her for a little more than a year. 

'I don’t think Russell liked that Katy was the bigger star. He’d pick her to pieces over the most trivial things...'The celebrity news site claimed that a source said the bickering between them started not long after they tied the knot and while Brand is more of a homebody, having given up his partying ways many years ago, Perry loved going out and they would row when he wanted to leave an event early.

You married a Pop star, and you're upset that she's an attention whore?  What the hell were you thinking?

This video seems vaguely appropriate...




Thanks to Wombat-Socho for including this and my other Rule 5 type posts for the week in his weekly collection of cutielinks. Go and check them all out!

¹There is some uncertainty as to the origin of the term "pound sterling". Some sources say it dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, when coins called sterlings were minted from silver; 240 of these sterlings weighed one pound, and large payments came to be made in "pounds of sterlings".[8] Other references, including the Oxford English Dictionary, say a sterling was a silver penny used in England by the Normans and date the term to around 1300. For more discussion of the etymology of "sterling", see Sterling silver.