By Gaspard Couderc
Published 3 hours ago, updated 3 hours ago
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness at the premiere of The Son. (Paris, February 22, 2023.) Abaca
After 27 years of marriage, the couple announced their divorce. The two Australians are at the helm of a fortune that they now have to share.
Their real estate empire is valued at $290 million: suffice to say, the Hugh Jackman-Deborra-Lee Furness couple is sitting on a veritable gold mine. In 27 years of marriage, the two Australians have acquired more than numerous properties around the world. In New York, Sydney, Melbourne and the Hamptons, those who announced their divorce this Friday, September 15, now have to consider the question of property division.
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A real estate portfolio to share
Villas, apartments, bungalows, both in the United States and Australia… The question of dividing all this land capital is delicate for this couple who have been inseparable for so long. An anonymous source interviewed by the Chron explains: “Their lives have been so intertwined that dividing everything up and determining who owns what from a financial and property perspective is an extremely difficult process.” Key for the three-story apartment in the Meier Tower in the middle of Manhattan or the sea view apartment on Bondi Beach, Sydney’s most famous beach? Who owns the house in the Hamptons, the favorite vacation spot of wealthy New Yorkers? And finally, what to do with the couple’s first two-bedroom apartment in Melbourne, full of memories of the time when Hugh and Deborah were complete strangers?
So many questions that remain unanswered to this day. Despite everything, the two actors seem to want to find common ground and not fall into melodrama. “The divorce is quickly formalized, but before an agreement is reached, they are determined that everything will be done in the best possible way,” the same witness explains to the English daily. So in perspective, no Monopoly game.
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