RICH PICKINGS Inside UK’s most expensive divorces – from Princess Haya’s £554m payout to Miss UK saga & model’s £1m clothes budget

Amy Jones 2:28 ET, Dec 23 2021

Kirsty and Ernesto Bertarelli - £400million

Kirsty and Ernesto before their split Credit: Instagram

Pop princess Kirsty and Ernesto Bertarelli seemingly had it all - whirlwind holidays to stunning locations, a £100million yacht and plush properties across the world.

But this autumn the pair divorced in a £400 million settlement, making Kirsty the richest British-born divorcee in history.

It included a £350million slush fund, plus a £52million mansion in Geneva.

The pay-out saw her become richer than the Queen and J.K. Rowling.

The 50-year-old had a comfortable childhood in Staffordshire and was scouted as a model in her youth.

She won the 1988 Miss UK pageant and was entered into Miss World where she placed second runner up.

Kirsty in her pageant days Credit: Getty

Kirsty soaking up the sun Credit: Instagram

Just under a decade later she met her future husband - the Swiss billionaire businessman Ernesto Bertarelli - at a dinner party.

While she had success at songwriting - co-writing the All Saints number one hit Black Coffee - she never gave up on her own dreams of pop stardom.

And while she never quite broke through on to the mainstream with her own music, the mother-of-three could console herself with trips to the family’s £8million estate in Gstaad, a £10million mansion in Geneva, a mews house in Belgravia and their £100million yacht Vava II.

Friends were said to be shocked when Ernesto, 56, and Kirsty split - but a spokesman for the couple insisted the divorce was amicable.

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