What happens when celebrity couples break up? Details of the multimillion-dollar splits revealed

Inside celebrity couples’ multimillion-dollar breakups. Picture: Supplied

Inside celebrity couples’ multimillion-dollar breakups. Picture: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images; Kevin Winter/Getty Images; John Sciulli/Getty Images for G’Day Australia

As most wedding vows have a promise to stay together “as long as we both shall live,” not all marriages last.

No matter how bitter or civil a marital split might be, dividing up a property is never easy.

And celebrity divorce is no different, it may even be harder.

According to Realtor, many celebrities want to sell fast once they extricate themselves from a marriage.

However, that doesn’t mean the property (or properties) will sell fast.

See some of the biggest celebrity splits below and what happened with their homes.

Kyle Sandilands and Imogen Anthony

Kyle Sandilands and ex-girlfriend Imogen Anthony splurged a whopping $2,982,500 on a 61ha farm in the NSW town of Robertson in 2018.

The property is known to locals as Twin Creeks — because two natural spring creeks meet there — but Anthony has nicknamed it (presumably because of the red roof) Crimson Peak.

Although the couple split in 2020, they continue to keep the farm to house more than 100 rescued animals.

Because of this, they have no plans to sell the property, and Anthony occasionally shares photos on Instagram of herself in the paddocks with the animals.

Settling into farm life. Picture: Instagram

Imogen Anthony at the Robertson farm, which then-boyfriend Kyle Sandilands helped secure for $3 million.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Brad Pitt and ex-wife Angelina Jolie are involved in a bitter real estate spat over the $225m French chateau where they married.

The former power couple split in 2016 and have been caught up in multiple court battles since.

This real estate division is the latest battleground with Pitt and Jolie each own 50 per cent of the 1000 acre estate, Chateau Miraval, in Correns, in southern France.

It has been previously reported that Jolie agreed to give Pitt the first option to buy out her stake in the property if she decided to sell.

However, according to the New York Post, Jolie has allegedly tried to offload her share in the home, but not to Pitt, landing the case in court.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie split in 2016. Picture: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Chateau Miraval in southern France is at the centre of a $225 real estate spat between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

The outside of the farm shows a rustic living opportunity. Picture: YouTube

Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Cameron McGlinchey

Actor and singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte and her estranged husband, musician Cameron McGlinchey, recently listed their former home in the Byron Bay hinterland.

Bassingthwaighte and McGlinchey initially sought $2850 a week, which was reduced to $2500 just before it recently came down from rental sites.

The couple had been co-parenting at the family compound which they bought for $2.15m in 2020, when they made the move from Melbourne.

They had sold their former 1907 home in Brighton for $4m, having paid $2,525,000 for it in 2012, shortly after the sale of Bassingthwaighte’s Elizabeth Bay apartment for $830,000.

Cameron McGlinchey and Natalie Bassingthwaighte split after 13 years. Picture: Supplied/Social Set Media

Natalie Bassingthwaighte and her estranged husband, musician Cameron McGlinchey, are selling their former home in the Byron Bay hinterland.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck

As the rumours of marital woes grew in the months leading up to their divorce announcement, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck publicly listed their Beverly Hills mega-mansion for a hefty $US68m ($A101m).

Following the 2022 nuptials and a long house hunt, they put down $60.8m (A$90m) for their marital mansion in May 2023.

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck called it quits after two years of marriage. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Aflleck and Lopez publicly listed their Beverly Hills mega mansion for $US68 million. Picture: Realtor

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness

Hugh Jackman and ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness had people speculating about their 2023 divorce when they listed their A$56.1m West Village triplex after calling the property home for more than 10 years.

The power couple purchased the lavish seven-bathroom New York City property in 2008, when Jackman paid $A32,638,200.

Two months after the listing of the NYC estate, Jackman and Furness paid $A34,347,820 for a three-bedroom penthouse in Chelsea. The move came less than a year before their shock separation announcement.

Since the couple’s separation announcement, it’s expected the penthouse may return to the market, or remain home to just one member of the former couple. The future of the property is still unclear.

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness. Picture: Kate Green/Getty Images

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness bought a $22.1M NYC home a year before separation. Picture: Realtor

One of the dining areas. Picture: Realtor

The home has an enormous kitchen. Picture: Realtor

The Penthouse’s main bedroom. Picture: Realtor

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

During her marriage to Tom Cruise, Kidman owned a three-storey, eight-bedroom Darling Point home on a sizeable 1068sq m Harbourside plot.

She sold the Yarranabbe Rd home in 2009 for “about” $13.2m after listing originally in 2008 for $20m.

Cruise and Kidman had paid $4.2min 1995 for one half of the villa, then three years later they spent another $4.75m to own the whole property.

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AUGUST 2, 1999 : Actor Tom Cruise & wife Nicole Kidman arrive at Greater Union cinemas, Sydney for premiere of their film Eyes Wide Shut, 02/08/99. Pic Jim Trifyllis.
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman owned a three-storey Darling Point home. Picture: Jim Trifyllis

Nicole Kidman’s mansion in Darling Point, which she sold in 2009.

Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen

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 has since 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.

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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 Darling Point home the couple reportedly rented for around $100k a week.

The home sold for $24m, two years ago.

The Woollahra unit Fisher bought as a 19yo, when she was starring on Home and Away.

John Singleton and Sarah Warry

Millionaire businessman John Singleton is saying goodbye to his $15m resort-style pad, set to be home for him and his seventh wife before they divorced after just seven months.

The 82-year-old bought the love nest last October, after marrying his seventh wife, Central Coast local Sarah Warry, four months earlier.

Many years ago, “Singo” famously said: “Marriage only ends two ways – divorce or death. I prefer divorce.’’ Earlier this year in March it was announced the pair were separating.

It was bought for $15.85m from Julian Hofer and wife Michaela Muir through Josh Canellis, at Wiseberry Peninsula, by Singleton’s longtime investment entity Ognis Pty Ltd, which is “Singo” in reverse.

The property was initially on the market in early 2020 with $10m hopes, and then in early 2021 with a $12m guide. Currently it’s being marketed as one of Killcare Heights’ largest acreages with E3 tourism zoning.

John Singleton and Sarah Warry.

Singleton lists at Killcare after his marriage to Sarah Warry ended.

The property is one of the area’s biggest.

Karl Stefanovic and Cassandra Thorburn

Cassandra Thorburn severed a property link to ex-husband Karl Stefanovic after their Cremorne waterfront mansion sold for over $9m in 2019.

The couple had purchased the property in an up-market pocket of Cremorne for $8m in 2016, months before they separated.

It was believed Thorburn and the couple’s three kids moved into the property in 2017, by which time Stefanovic was in a nearby home with his second wife Jasmine Yarbrough.

Thorburn and Stefanovic had also sold their Federation family home in Lindfield for $3.8 million.