What’s Yours is Now Mine: 7 Women Who Cleaned Up In Their Divorce, And Deserved It
Lionel Richie and Brenda Harvey
Sweet, innocent Brenda Harvey had no idea what her college sweetheart and first husband Lionel Richie would become. That is until she pretended to be “room service” in ’88 and busted down a hotel room door to find him on top of another woman (his soon-to-be second wife Diane Alexander). Richie had had been having an affair with Alexander for two years. Harvey was said to have beaten both brutally during her discovery. After 17 years of marriage and informally adopting TV personality and designer Nicole Richie together, the couple split and their divorce was finalized in 1993. If the mistress and second wife Diane Alexander received $20 million from her years with the singer, let’s just assume Brenda got broke off back in ’93.
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