According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 43% of first marriages will end in divorce or separation, a figure that is surely music to the ears of every celebrity divorce attorney who realize that those figures undoubtedly increase in the world of Hollywood marriages!

But squabbling celebrities are nothing new. From as early as the parting of the ways of Vivien Leigh and Sir Laurence Olivier, divorce attorneys have realized that a good source of income is readily available from representing feuding celebs, and at the same time promoting their own careers, and bank accounts.

Perhaps the most high profile divorce in recent months has been that of Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. Both have been represented by the same divorce lawyers as Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Anthony Julius, who represented Diana has been representing Mills and the Prince’s lawyer, Fiona Shackleton, has been the choice of Sir Paul in his bid to hold on to his $1.7 billion fortune. With Julius, 50, charging a reputed £500 an hour, its not just Mills who is gold digging for Paul’s billions!

Now, just a few weeks after the latest marriage of Pamela Anderson to Rick Salomon we hear that Anderson has filed for divorce through her attorneys. Anderson has been married twice before. The first time for 3 years to Motley Crue rocker Tommy Lee and a second marriage to singer Kid Rock last year which also ended in divorce after four months. Who in their right mind becomes the third husband of a woman who calls her divorce attorney as easily as most of us call for a pizza take out?

Then there’s the messy business that went on between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline. While Federline was actually air born, Britney Spears had her feet planted firmly on the ground while she visited her divorce attorney and filed for divorce. It must have made for a real ‘down to earth’ experience when Kev’s undercarriage hit the tarmac!

Even after the divorce has concluded the divorce attorneys still stand to line their pockets as so often the feuding duos carry on fighting for custody of anything from plants to pets to kids.

Knight Rider star, David Hasselhoff is one such celebrity who until recently was paying astronomical fees to his ‘shark’, Melvin S. Goldsman in his attempt to gain joint custody of his children with his ex-wife Pamela.star, David Hasselhoff is one such celebrity who until recently was paying astronomical fees to his ‘shark’, Melvin S. Goldsman in his attempt to gain joint custody of his children with his ex-wife Pamela.So its not just the celebs themselves who gain notoriety from high profile divorces, their attorneys receive their fair share of press and media attention too which only serves to elevate their charges for the next unsuspecting victim of the statistics that tell us all that any marriage has about a 50/50 chance of survival.

Of course, there are those celebrities who feel they are above the law and as such chose to by pass the hassle of a divorce and the exuberant charges of a divorce attorney and opt for murder instead. Do we mean people like, OJ Simpson and Michael Blake?

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