It's more consequences of his own actions than anything else. If he (or you) interpret that as a punishment, then it's a punishment solely based on his own actions, inflicted to himself by himself.
What did he not do? In this hypothetical he handed most of the power in his life to his wife. It's not like he can't afford the worlds best lawyers to help him draft shit up and tell him the consequences of these things, I guess. Oh wait, he's rich. He can.
He could do shitty movies shows and commercials that still pay enough to pay his bills, like every other actor who gets fucked out of a career (self-inflicted or otherwise).
That's the root cause of a lot of the downstream stuff, and that's assuming there were literally no indicators of how this would go before they were married. If he had divorced her years ago he wouldn't be in this catch-22 type problem currently.
Also, as I said, he has access to lawyers. Pre-nups are a common thing. He either chose not to get one, or she pushed back on having one at all (which would be a red flag as mentioned above).
I feel for him, shit sucks. But, as I said, consequences.
A prenup isn't about screwing anyone, it's there to protect both parties. Terms in prenups can and often are negotiated. They can be changed later if needed and both parties agree.
I'd argue that everyone should have a prenup, especially if there are a lot of assets and money in the conversation on either (or both) sides. If the marriage never ends in divorce, it's just a piece of paper.
Also, I disagree fundamentally. Simply based off of stats, 1/3 of people ever married (in the US) end up experiencing divorce. When I buy a house, if I go into it knowing that there's a 1/3 chance that it burns down, I'd buy insurance, would you not? Do you think those 1/3 of people expected to end up in the 1/3 that are divorced? I'd say very few of them did.
You don’t trust your house to not burn down so you got insurance.
You obviously don’t trust the woman(man) you are marrying if you need to protect yourself. A relationship is built on love. And you can’t love someone without trust.
I feel like that opinion might change if you were worth like 100 million dollars but maybe I'm wrong, wouldn't know, never been rich enough to think about a prenup
I don't think it's really a matter of trust at that point. Like, if I was set to marry someone with 100 million in the bank, I would not be offended if they looked at my 20k life savings and said hey yeah I think we need a prenup just in case
Although to be clear I completely understand why other people might feel differently
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u/tanstaafl90 6h ago
Unfortunately for him, she's also signed a bunch of the paperwork for his various businesses. He stands to lose much more than just his reputation.