How to Divorce Proof Your Marriage: Advice from Celebrity Divorce Attorney James Sexton
Disruptors
Rob Moore
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Rob explores the fascinating world of high stakes divorce with renowned lawyer James Sexton! From billion dollar settlements to celebrity scandals, Sexton reveals the shocking truths behind marital breakdowns and offers his opinions on love, relationships, and personal growth. With candid anecdotes and thought provoking wisdom, if you are curious about the complexities of human relationships and the legal battlegrounds where they often end, this episode is for you.
James Sexton REVEALS:
- The most expensive divorce he worked on cost his client $3 million in legal fees, while the opposing side spent $5 million across multiple lawyers.
- The underlying cause of most divorces
- Why infidelity and financial issues are symptoms rather than root causes of divorce
- Why you need a prenup
- He is "happily divorced" and maintains a strong friendship with his ex-wife.
- Why Sexton views himself as a "full contact storyteller" who manipulates people's emotional states for a living, aiming to make judges feel positively about his clients and negatively about opponents.
- His unexpected social media fame
- Why he initially struggled to present an authentic version of himself in media appearances
BEST MOMENTS
"I have resigned myself to temporary complicity with evil in order to accomplish certain strategic objectives for people whose suffering is more important than my need to maintain moral purity."
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can definitely upgrade your despair."
"Everyone has a prenup. It's either one that was written by the government or it's one that was written by you and this person that you allegedly like more than the other 8 billion people in the world."
"The hard thing to do and the right thing to do are almost always the same thing."
"Love is not gifted. It's loaned. And I think that is a hard lesson."
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| 0:00.0 | James, what's the most expensive divorce you've ever seen or been involved in? |
| 0:05.2 | I got paid $3 million from one of my clients over the course of four years. |
| 0:10.4 | That's the most expensive one I've ever personally been involved in. |
| 0:14.0 | The other side in that case paid five million across three lawyers, four lawyers, four law firms, |
| 0:22.0 | because I just kept picking them off like one at a time and every time she would get a negative outcome she would fire her lawyers and hire new ones. I was on it from the beginning all the way to the end. |
| 0:33.0 | But yeah, she spent $5 million. |
| 0:35.6 | My client spent $3 million plus another million or so each |
| 0:39.0 | in expert fees. |
| 0:40.6 | So it was probably like by the time it was all said and done about a 12 million dollar divorce but for a couple that had 800 million dollars worth of assets, you know, that wasn't as much money to them. |
| 0:52.0 | He actually said to me with a straight face that client early in the case, we were talking about settlement concepts and he said, well look, I'm not going to argue with her over a couple of million bucks. I remember thinking, really, okay because I I argue a lot for a couple of |
| 1:04.8 | million bucks that's actually my job description so you know that's but he was very |
| 1:10.0 | sincere he was like yeah I'm not gonna what's gonna quibble over what's a few |
| 1:13.2 | million among former lovers you know wow and what's the most you've seen one side |
| 1:18.9 | have to give away to another side in a divorce settlement? |
| 1:30.3 | Somewhere in the neighborhood assets wise of about $4 billion. Yeah, $4 billion. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, yeah. But that was you know a marriage of long duration the guy had a net worth of about 9 billion and you know he she got around half of it because they when they when they got |
| 1:46.6 | together he didn't really have much and and she had really you know raised their |
| 1:51.6 | kids and you know so New York is you know it's very funny |
| 1:56.2 | my colleague in LA Laura waser represents like people you've heard of you know like |
| 2:02.3 | she represents celebrities and anytime a |
| 2:04.4 | celebrities getting divorced Laura is usually represents one of the |
| 2:07.6 | celebrities in the in the transaction phenomenal lawyer great great talent in the |
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