Gibson Divorce -- A Sticky Wicket

Mel Gibson's divorce is rolling along, but we're told it ain't gonna be as simple as a clean 50/50 split.

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First of all, it looks like Mel's reported wealth -- $900,000,000 -- is inflated. The business people are still figuring it out, but a huge portion of his net worth is tied up in real estate. As one source put it, relative to his wealth, there's not a lot of cash involved.

That's not to say Mel and Robyn are living on a budget. They have millions in the bank ... we're told Mel is pulling in about $17 million on his latest movie project.

Now here's where it gets complicated. Some of the real estate is being held in trust for their children. As for the rest of the real estate, it's not a good time to sell, but we're told they will most likely have to liquidate the lion's share of these assets for their property settlement.

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1. I have to go poop!

Posted at 3:05AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Telling It Like It Is

2. Cry me a river.

Posted at 3:30AM on Jun 4th 2009 by SuziQue

3. Here's hoping they do the right thing and reconcile and do not pursue this divorce, which is not recognized
by the Catholic Church anyway.

It's amazing how many people online show their worst colors and delight in the breaking up of a 28-year
marriage.

Mel and his wife need prayers especially during this difficult time.

Posted at 3:41AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Cameron

4. Yawn.

Posted at 4:22AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Appleton

5. This is sad. My Ex and I were married 32 years before he wanted to dump me for "there must be something more". We were very successful financially, and he destroyed 25 lives, along with their families, by choosing crack cocaine as the "something more". Drug dealers, the IRS, and lawyers are all searching for him, but he has no known address or place of employment. Mel seems to have a problem with alcohol, but any substance abuse can not only destroy the abuser's life - but those who are heavily involved with that person. Mel may believe that he is all "new" again, but his new woman and new child will soon become old hat to him because he's been through the same circumstances many times before. Mel will have to tell the new woman in his life, everything his wife of many years already knows. IMO, Mel isn't too bright to get his new woman pregnant, when all he really wanted was to do was to feel special. Mel's new woman has trapped him into a long term money train for herself and their child. Maybe ... maybe .... he'll come to his senses, and NOT marry this woman.

Posted at 4:24AM on Jun 4th 2009 by The Romper Room

6. MEL is another person who didnt take his marrage serious enough , all he knows how to do is screw
around on his wife , to a younger HOMEWRECKER . YEP MEL ( HOMEWRECKER AND HIS
GIRLFRIEND ( HOMEWRECKER ) .

HIS WIFE DESERVE 1/2 OF EVERYTHING . IF IT'S PROPERTY THEN SELL IT , SURE IT'S GOING
TO TAKE YEAR OR MORE . AS FAR AS CASH , MEL , HAS CASH , DON'T LET HIM TELL YOU
ANOTHER LIE . He's NOT a father , just s sperm donor . The wife and children deserves better .
MEL NEEDS TO BE FIXED ........HE ONLY THINKS OF ONE THING .....SEXXXXXX ..........

Posted at 4:52AM on Jun 4th 2009 by wife deserves 12 of everything , sell those homes . Mel has cash $$$$$$$$

7. Robyn is finally free from that drunk, adulterer, and anti-semite. Who gets the church? King Mel.
God shall judge you Mel. I will just state the facts.

Posted at 6:14AM on Jun 4th 2009 by jess

8. Boo hoo.

Posted at 6:28AM on Jun 4th 2009 by avoidz

9. Mel Gibson was sooooooooo stupid getting that girl pregnant while still married, his wife is going to take him to the cleaners everything he acquired was while they were married so she is entitled to EVERYTHING he has made, dumb move on Mel's part and his girlfriend isn't even all that cute but is prettier than the wife thats for sure. If his wife is smart she can get ALOT of money and sue for emotional abandonment and emotion distress. Serves him right you should never get into another relationship until the ink is dry on your divorce papers. That's what he gets for thinking with the wrong head and now he has a golddigging girlfriend she got pregnant on purpose so that he will have to pay her no matter what.

Posted at 7:14AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Kim

10. I don't like Gibson one bit. However, just because he is an unlikeable guy doesn't mean that he should be smoked for half of HIS earnings. Sure, give the woman some money so she can her self up and running.
But he is the guy who made the money, not her. Giving her a couple of million dollars is more than enough to compensate her.

Posted at 7:31AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Billy Buck

11. Robyn was watching out for her kids. Old farts like Mel that start second families sometimes write the first one off. Or their widows do when they drop.

Posted at 7:55AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Kay

12. NO - NO - NO!!!!!!!!!!

WHY - WHY - WHY!!!!!!!!

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO OUR CELEBRITIES, WHY!!!!!?

I CAN'T TAKE THIS.

Posted at 7:57AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Mikey

13. Yep, Mel baby has always been such a "good" Catholic but with 7 kids I don't THINK it's going to be an annulment there Mel old boy!

Tsk, tsk.

Anyway, I hope Robyn and her lawyer(s) clean his clock and take way more than half!

After carrying, birthing and raising 7 kids she deserves a LOT more than just half regardless of whether it's liquid assets or real estate or whatever IMHO

I hope she gets most of it because she's not only deserving of it BUT that's just that much less this little gold digging hoochie-thing he's knocked up won't get!

I'm quite sure that HER pregnancy wasn't an accident - all those $$$$$ signs she sees in you, you idiot Mel!

She not only looks like Octomom (god help her..one of them is enough) but lets hope she doesn't spawn as many kids at one time or Mel will have to be out panhandling to keep them all...well, there's ALWAYS welfare at our expense like O'mom gets...and of course, MEL would be wonderful in a reality series with HIS Octa/homewrecking "mom"!

I used to love Mel but I've thrown all his movies out and will never watch another one.

He makes me sick! So does his new woman! True love if I've ever seen it.

Posted at 1:05PM on Jun 4th 2009 by Gailic Girl

14. T0 #3 (Cameron),

I'm not taking delight in the demise of this long-time marriage but how in the world can you expect any woman to forgive and take back her husband who has cheated on her and is flaunting his new "love" who oh by the way is pregnant all over for the world to see?

Does God want them to get back together and be miserable? Does God expect Robyn to graciously invite this little homewrecking witch into their home(s) and they all live happiily ever after? Does God expect her to just overlook this one little "flaw" in her hubby? I don't think so. At leat not in my opinion and although I'm not Catholic, I AM a Christian and have a LOT of faith in God.

I was married to a man who hit me and abused me emotionally and mentally as well while I was pregnant so I left him and divorced him. Is God going to hold THAT against ME because I had enough sense to flee the abuse and him? Because I saved not only my life but more importantly, the life of my child? Don't think so.

I know the Church doesn't recognize divorce BUT come on, you (and God) surely can't expect Robyn to overlook this and accept it especially when it's evident that Mel has "moved on" , broken his marriage vows and made another woman pregnant. That's a LOT to overlook

I do have a problem (as I said in my other post) with Mel always claiming he's such a devout Catholic and then doing what he's done and not seeming the least bit ashamed or even embarrassed by it

I respected him for his faith and as a family-oriented man or at least that is how he seemed.

Now I see him as just another cheating man

Posted at 8:22AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Gailic Girl

15. If the marriage is annulled, Mel and Robyn's children will feel truly abandoned by their father. Mel, for the sake of the children, whom you purport to love, please just get a divorce and leave the annullments to King Henry VIII.

Posted at 8:34AM on Jun 4th 2009 by Cherie

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