Oklahoma Oil Tycoon Has To Pay His Wife 1 BILLION Dollars In Divorce Settlement

You said how much?

(Source) – During his nearly 50 years as an Oklahoma oil man, Harold Hamm has done everything on a huge scale. The chief executive and majority shareholder of Continental Resources, he owns the largest piece of the greatest oil discovery of our age, in the shale-rich plains of North Dakota. His net worth has been pegged at more than $18 billion by Forbes, making him the 24th richest man in the country. Now another superlative can be added to Mr. Hamm’s outsize career: He is paying one of the biggest divorce settlements in history. After a secretive, nine-week trial, a judge in Oklahoma City has ruled that the 68-year-old Mr. Hamm must pay nearly $1 billion to his ex-wife, Sue Ann Hamm. With the bang of a gavel, Ms. Hamm has joined the ranks of the wealthiest women in the United States.

I don’t understand how something like this happens. If I were Harold Hamm I would kill my wife before I wrote her a 1 billion dollar check, and not a single jury in history would find me guilty. A BILLION dollars?! What the fuck does she need that for? I’m not saying that Ms. Hamm deserves to be sent to the homeless shelter, Harold should have to provide for her, of course. But we’re gonna make her one of the wealthiest women in the world just because she’s part of the majority of marriages that didn’t work out? How many meetings did she attend? How many shale-rich plains of North Dakota? Oh, zero? K then you get enough to live comfortably and nothing more.