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April 11, 2008 -

How Your Divorce Differs From A Celebrity Divorce

Divorce 101 for you and me: decide to divorce, hire lawyers, discuss visitation, support and the house, suffer and recover in private.

Divorce 101 for average celebrity: decide to divorce, hire team of lawyers, press consultants, financial advisors, business managers and accountants. Have your “source close to the family” spill every detail of your life. See all the details printed in every magazine, aired on every TV show and reviewed in every newspaper. Lose your job. Have camera crews follow you around night and day. Have your kids learn about your divorce from the TV and have millions of people discuss your divorce, how you look, what you said and what you’re wearing to court.

"The most valuable asset, generally, is their good name and they will do all they can to protect and promote it," explained John C. Mayoue, of Warner, Mayoue, Bates and Nolen, P.C. who represented Jane Fonda.
"They have ability to use press agents to spin their stories," said attorney Robert Kaufman, of Kaufman, Young, Spiegel, Robinson and Kenerson, who represented Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Anniston.
Unique to the athletic celebrity community is the potential to be dropped by endorsement sponsors if the divorce gets messy, said Ira M. Elegant, of Buchbinder & Elegant, P.A., who currently represents Shaquille O'Neal. "That's a very, very big problem."
"You'd think they'd want to be a little more private," said Stacy Phillips, an attorney who worked with Bobby Brown. Many celebrities use the media to advance their goals in the divorces, manipulating the media to have a story told from their perspective.
Divorce360 commissioned a Roper poll to find out what people would do to save their marriages. 85% of people who have thought about divorce at some point are willing to make an effort to save their marriage. Nearly 10% would change religions, 60% would go to counseling, 46% would move, 35% would ignore the possibility that their spouse was cheating, 30% would reconsider their desire to have or not have children.