HAAAAAAALF!!!!!

I wonder if she'll take half! This story brings back fond memories of Eddie Murphy's outstanding Raw (his sequel to the even better Delirious).

Murphy spent a great deal of time in Raw, in the mid-80s, explaining why he, in his mid-20s, didn't plan on marrying any time soon. In fact, he was about to get married, but it fell through; so you can tell this heavily weighed on his mind.

One of the main reasons was that, absent a prenup and often even with one, family law typically awards the other spouse 1/2 of everything the couple made together in their marriage. He used Johnny Carson's recent divorce as his foil. Obviously Carson's wife didn't make half of their fortune; but he had to give her tens if not hundreds of millions anyway (I think 50 million was the figure).

But, a few years later, Murphy got married anyway to a strikingly beautiful (and very tall) woman. But now, it appears that is all over.

(Oh yeah, in the meantime, it was revealed that Murphy, who ridiculed gays in his act, apparently had a fetish for transvestites, and probably cheated on his wife with them.)

Murphy made tons of dough before he got married. And even though he has made a lot of (mostly) bombs since his marriage, he has still made quite a bit in that time period, I'm sure.

Now if she really gets 1/2 of everything he made since he married her...Ha! Poetic justice and his premonition comes true.