New York-born actor, film director, producer and screenwriter Mel Gibson, 53, whose combined estimated fortune from controversial, yet successful The Passion of the Christ, TV projects and real estate investments amount $ 1 billion, will face the biggest in Hollywood‘s history divorce settlement as soon as the celebrity‘s wife, Robyn Gibson, 53, is legally entitled to half of her ex-spouse’s assets and further residual checks.

In the opinion of Los Angeles family lawyer Lynn Soodik, who’s not involved with the case, this divorce will probably reach a settlement in a matter of months and the ex-couple does not seem to enter a painful, protracted battle in the courts.

“It likely won’t be messy since there’s enough money to go around,” commented Soodik.

After 28-year-long matrimony and nearly three years of estrangement, Robyn Gibson filed for divorce on April 13, 2009. The Gibsons declared in a joint statement that the couple had always “strived to maintain the privacy and integrity of the family.” They have one daughter, six sons, and one grandchild.

In fact Gibson’s $500 million check to be shelled out to his ex-wife gains the upper hand over the most of current record holders that included Chicago Bull’s retired basketball star Michael Jordan, 46, with $168 million payable upon the split-up with Juanita; a successful pop music performer Neil Diamond, 68, who settled down with Marcia Murphey by paying her $150 million; Steven Spielberg’s divorce in 1989 cost an American film director, producer and screenwriter a $100 million payment to Amy Irving.

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