JOHN CLEESE DIVORCE COST BIG TIME

Monty Python television star John Cleese will lose his New York City apartment and his plush London home in a bitter divorce battle, according to the actor’s friend Michael Winner. The actor is currently divorcing wife Alyce Faye Eichelberger Cleese. He was forced last May to pay her $150,000 a month in temporary maintenance fees. And it is believed Eichelberger is now demanding two houses, half of Cleese’s earnings since 1992, plus further maintenance dues of $1.8 million per year, claiming she has no money of her own. And film director Winner fears his friend will lose his fortune and all his property. He says, "Until the divorce is settled, she’s on maintenance, plus use of a beach house in Santa Barbara and other properties. Not bad for a 15-year marriage that did not produce any children. "I remembered his wife saying to me during a previous marriage wobble, ‘I’m going to take John for all I can. He won’t know what’s hit him.’ "Well, he does now."

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