The unprecedented judgment made in a Swiss court will also be used as leverage by Elena Rybolovelva's attorneys to take the fertilizer magnate's $88 million Central Park West apartment.
She just snared the largest divorce award in history — a whopping $4.8
billion — and now a scorned Russian divorcée is eying one of the
priciest pads ever sold in New York.Elena Rybolovleva, 47, plans to use the divorce ruling by the Swiss court to grab a hold of her now-ex-husband Dmitry Rybolovlev’s spectacular $88 million Central Park West apartment, one of her lawyers told the Daily News.
“We should be able to liquidate it” to help satisfy the judgment, David Newman said.
The megabucks judgment from the Geneva court calls for Rybolovlev to pay his ex $4,509,375,184.80 — more than half his estimated $8.8 billion fortune. That comes to about $184 million for each one of their 26 years of marriage.
The Russian — nicknamed “the fertilizer king” for how he made his fortune — also has to give her $146 million in property in Gstaad, Switzerland, and fork over alimony payments that will total $150 million, bringing her total haul to $4.8 billion.
VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images Dmitry Rybolovlev's net worth is estimated at $8.8 billion, and more than half will go to his ex-wife. Rybolovlev got served with the record-shattering judgment on Monday, more than five years after his fed-up wife served him with divorce papers.
“He was not very subtle with his infidelities,” Newman said.
She sought to freeze his bank accounts, and Rybolovlev went on a wild spending spree — apparently aimed at keeping his money out of her hands. He bought a share of French soccer league team AS Monaco, spent $156 million for two Greek islands that used to belong to Aristotle Onassis, shelled out $95 million for Donald Trump’s 33,000-square-foot Palm Beach estate and blew $20 million on a Hawaiian estate once owned by actor Will Smith.
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Photo by Donny/Simon/Flynetpictures Rybolovlev claimed the property wasn’t for him — he’d bought it as “student housing” for their daughter Ekaterina, now 24. His spurned spouse’s suit said the fertilizer magnate was full of it, because Ekaterina was going to school in Boston. Rybolovleva, who now lives in Switzerland, started court proceedings in New York, Florida and Hawaii to bar her hubby from transferring the properties while their divorce was pending.
“We want to be able to show he really owns these properties,” which were purchased through various trusts, said Newman, of Day Pitney.
Rybolovlev’s lawyer, Tetiana Bersheda, told The Associated Press, “there will definitely be a new appellate review and therefore this judgment is not final.”
