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Celeb exes find they have very different lives after splitting.
Relationships are hard, especially celebrity relationships in the public eye.
While some famous couples have gone the distance, others haven’t been as lucky and called it quits.
These are the former spouses of celebrities and how they live following the public end to their relationships.
Samantha Armytage
TV personality Samantha Armytage split with her husband Richard Lavender after four years of marriage.
According to news.com.au, the former Sunrise host moved out of Lavender’s Berrima homestead in the Southern Highlands several weeks ago following the breakdown of their relationship.
Armytage, who recently jumped ship from Network Seven to Nine last month, is believed to be staying at her Sydney investment property since separating from Lavender.
The one-time breakfast star purchased an investment property for $1.575 million in Rushcutters Bay in Sydney’s east in 2021.
The two-bedroom waterfront home is in the coveted Marina One complex. The 111sq m apartment has two bathrooms and a view of Sydney Harbour.
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Samantha Armytage and her husband Richard Lavender. Picture: David Swift
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Armytage has an investment property in the exclusive Marina One apartment development at Rushcutters Bay.
Isla Fisher
Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen announced in April they had called it quits after 13 years of marriage.
The pair and their three children had been living between Perth, Sydney, London and Hollywood.
Despite calling Australia home for large parts of their relationship, the Hollywood couple don’t appear to have bought any homes together Down Under.
The Aussie actress and English comedian reportedly spent some time at a Darling Point mansion, also in Sydney’s east, that cost around $100,000 a week and sold for $24m in November 2022.
But according to property records the only home either of the couple own in Australia is the two-bedroom Woollahra unit Fisher bought in 1995 and still owns, for $171,500 as a 19-year-old, just a year after she first started starring on Home and Away.
Fisher kept the home as an investment. She offered discounted rent of $400 a week during Covid – the previous rent in 2018 was $650 per week.
Last month, the Wedding Crashers star netted $930,000 from the sale of her Woollahra apartment.
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Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen announced in April they had called it quits after 13 years of marriage. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
The Woollahra unit Fisher bought as a 19yo, when she was starring on Home and Away.
Jodhi Meares
Swimwear mogul Jodhi Meares recently snapped up a property in the hinterland Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.
The founder of Tigerlily emerged as a $4.1 million cash buyer at Brooklet, inland between Ballina and Byron.
The four-bedroom, three-bathroom estate is 15 minutes from the beach. It’s filled with an avocado, citrus, banana and papaw orchard, the home also has an art studio.
Meares, who was married to billionaire James Packer between 1999 and 2002, is looking for a buyer for her two-bedroom Watsons Bay cottage with $5.5m price guidance.
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Jodhi Meares was married to billionaire James Packer between 1999 and 2002. Picture: Christian Gilles
Meares snapped up a property in the hinterland Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Picture: realestate.com.au
Tania Buckley
In 2007, Tania Buckley bought a mansion in Melbourne with her then husband, AFL great Nathan Buckley, for $3.92 million.
The former AFL power couple separated in 2020 and the Toorak home landed with her during the divorce.
Buckley relisted her property with a more than $1 million price cut, almost 100 days after pulling it from the market.
She first put the luxurious residence up for sale in March with a $16.8m-$18m price guide. It has now been relisted for sale with a $15 million-$16.5 million asking price.
The five-bedroom house comes with a 500-bottle glass-walled wine cellar, pool and basketball court.
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Nathan and Tania Buckley. Picture: Jason Edwards
Tania Buckley selling the family home in Toorak. Picture: Supplied
Phoebe Burgess
In 2021 Phoebe Burgess snapped up a sprawling estate in the Southern Highlands following the bitter end to her marriage with former NRL player Sam Burgess.
NSW Land Registry Services records revealed Ms Burgess took ownership of a $1.725 million property with a Mediterranean-style house, lush gardens and a large outdoor terrace just outside of Bowral.
Ms Burgess confirmed the purchase on Instagram with a post saying “the kids and I have settled on our new home in the Highlands.”
She thanked Ray White Bowral as well as Matt Mohl from the private banking division at Commonwealth Bank for “casually making dreams come true”.
The settlement comes after Ms Burgess and her two children spent the best part of 18 months living at her parents’ nearby estate following the end of her marriage with former Rabbitohs captain Sam in October 2019.
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Sam and Phoebe Burgess. Picture: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images
The sprawling estate sold for $1.725 million.
The modern kitchen has gas cooking and stone benchtops.
Cassandra Thornburn
Back in 2019, Cassandra Thorburn nabbed a renovated three-bedroom pad in Sydney’s Neutral Bay.
The purchase came a few months after selling the luxury waterfront mansion at Cremorne she bought with former husband Karl Stefanovic in the months before their 2016 split.
Ms Thorburn, a long time resident of the north shore, the home brimming has Art Deco charm and contemporary features.
It was believed she paid more than the $2.3 million agents were guiding on the property.
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Karl Stefanovic and Cassandra Thorburn. Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty Images
Cass Thorburn nabbed a renovated three-bedroom pad in Sydney’s Neutral Bay in 2019.
Chris Walker
Award-winning television producer and Carrie Bickmore’s former partner Chris Walker recently bought an expansive four-bedroom property for $3.22 million in Eaglemont, Melbourne.
Jellis Craig Ivanhoe and Rosanna agent Matthew Treacy said the main things the producer was looking for in a property was a large open plan living and dining area.
Spanning more than 900sq m, the home features a heated mineral pool, two-car garage, workshop and under house storage.
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Carrie Bickmore and Chris Walker. Picture: Instagram
The large heated mineral pool.
There are soaring high ceilings throughout the home.
The kitchen and a stone island bench.
Lee Henderson
Lee Henderson, the ex-husband of radio star Jackie O, has secured himself a residence in Watsons Bay in 2021.
The acquisition came a year after the sale of the former couple’s matrimonial Vaucluse home.
While Jackie went pricey contemporary, Henderson emerged as a $4.6 million buyer of a redesigned 1840s fisherman’s cottage.
The English photographer’s abode is on the trendy strip where owners include fashion designer Jodhi Meares and the chef Guillaume Brahimi.
The freestanding cottage comes with original features merged with a modern design. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, living and dining zones and a courtyard.
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Radio personality Jackie O and Lee Henderson. Picture: Instagram
The Watsons Bay home Henderson bought.
Danielle Spencer
In 2017, Russell Crowe quietly offloaded his trophy Sydney mansion Te Puke to his former wife Danielle Spencer, six years after they bought it for $10 million.
The Gladiator star transferred ownership solely to Spencer. She has lived at the seven bedroom, four bathroom Rose Bay home with the former couple’s sons, Charlie and Tennyson, since 2011.
Set on 1200 square metres overlooking the fairways of the Royal Sydney Golf Club Te Puke, pronounced “the-pook-eh’’, is Maori for “hill”.
Spencer set her heart on the Federation house after a four-year search for a family home aside from their waterfront apartment at the Finger Wharf in Woolloomooloo. But the year following the purchase, the couple split.
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Danielle Spencer and Russell Crowe.
Crowe offloaded the Rose Bay home to ex-wife.
