Australia’s most expensive divorce EVER ends with victory for jilted wife – with cheating billionaire husband ordered to hand over $180MILLION and vast property portfolio

A woman has been awarded $180 million and a share of her ex-husband’s substantial real estate portfolio after a bitter three-year divorce battle.

The couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been married for more than 20 years before splitting a few years ago.

The family court ruled that the man had given his then wife a ‘life of luxury’, but that they had been ‘living apart together’ since the 1990s.

Their relationship began to unravel in 2007 when the man had an extramarital affair at one of their foreign properties.

Judge Peter Campton ruled that the couple should divide their vast fortune, which the man had already grown before they met.

Judge Campton ordered the man to pay his ex-wife four installments of $40 million by March 22 and July 26, both this year and next year.

He must also pay her 50 percent of the couple’s real estate portfolio ($21.8 million) by March 22, 2026, bringing her total payout to approximately $181 million.

She will also own three apartments, one of which is her main residence abroad and is worth more than $10 million, according to the Daily telegram.

Judge Campton found the woman was ‘financially dependent on the man’ after quitting her job shortly after their relationship.

Her husband’s wealth had helped her live a luxurious life of “happy laziness,” spending most days of the week with friends and “enjoying first-class international travel.”

‘She has already reached retirement age with immense wealth thanks to the provision the man has made for her, and can live out the rest of her days in the extraordinary luxury she has long enjoyed, with ownership of several properties that she can abandoned by will,” reads Judge Campton’s ruling.

The husband, who had built up much of his wealth before they met in 1999, was ordered to pay for his ex-wife’s luxurious life to which she had become accustomed (stock image)

The woman was questioned under cross-examination after she told the court she did not want to visit their foreign properties because of her ex-partner’s infidelity there.

However, when put to the man, he admitted the affair at the property but denied that this was the reason she did not visit the house.

Texts between the couple and submitted to the court reveal the bitter fallout between the couple.

“You fucked her when you were both home because the last thing you wanted was to spend a weekend with your wife,” the woman wrote.

“I won’t go into it, it disgusts me far too much, but I do want to say how horrible it is that you used our marital home to continue your perverted affair.”

He told the court ‘I won’t deny it’, adding that ‘she also had extramarital affairs’ and explaining that it was not part of his evidence because he ‘didn’t want to go down that road’.

“I didn’t think it was relevant,” he told the court. “Look, I have a bad character.”