John Cleese
JOHN CLEESE revealed how his divorce left him penniless and forced to continue working to support himself.
He divorced his wife, psychotherapist Alyce Faye Eichelberger, in 2008 after 15 years together — a split that came with a hefty price tag. The divorce ended up costing Cleese a staggering £12million of his fortune as he had to pay out £650,000 a year to his ex-partner in what he described as “feeding the beast”. In 2015, Cleese revealed that he had paid all of the alimony, working for seven years to afford it.
He said: “I was comfortably well off before I got divorced from Alyce Faye Eichelberger.