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Article: A marriage unravels unhappily: Ron Burkle's wife seeking bigger slice of his billions.
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 10, 2005
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The estranged wife of billionaire Ron Burkle is threatening to dismantle a 1997 post-marital agreement she says unfairly benefited the supermarket magnate, according to divorce papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
After a contentious year and a half, Janet Burkle has appealed the decision of a private judge who ruled against her last month. She claims the earlier agreement is invalid because it fails to account for certain assets in her $30 million share of the community property, divorce papers say.
As a result, she says a spousal support waiver in the agreement should be lifted, and she is seeking $232,800 in monthly living expenses. She also ...