S30E13: The Unrequited $3 Billion Divorce | Sheika Dena al Fassi and Sheik Mohammed al Fassi

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Back in the early 80s, divorce lawyer to the stars (and Trashy Divorces alum) Marvin Mitchelson took on the biggest case of his career - and one that seems to have gotten away from him a bit. Sheika Dena al Fassi, the wife of Saudi businessman (and Saudi royal family member) Mohammed al Fassi, was filing for divorce, and estimates of Mohammed's fortune ran as high as $3 billion. On the one hand, Dena won the divorce case handily. On the other, Mohammed had long since left the United States with their four children and had no intention of paying the settlement that a California court ordered. Even decades later - even decades after both Mohammad and Marvin Mitchelson had died - Dena was still trying to collect on a divorce settlement that grew into the hundreds of millions of dollars through the magic of compound interest. This episode originally aired on Patreon on February 26, 2025. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:07.3	My name is Stacey and Alicia. We're dipping into the Patreon vault this week, huh?
0:11.8	We are for a fantastic bonus divorce we did many moons ago back in February of this year.
0:18.8	Y'all, this is the unrequited,
0:24.4	$3 billion with a B dollar divorce.
0:26.5	From like the 80s or something, right?
0:27.2	From the 80s. This was a huge dollar figure.
0:29.6	It has everything you like,
0:31.3	including Marvin Mitchelson,
0:34.4	trashy tabloids from yester years,
0:37.3	trashy behavior, international fleeing and espionage and more court judgments than you can shake a stick at.
0:46.5	Shake.
0:47.5	Oh, yes.
0:49.2	Ha ha, ha.
0:49.5	Look at you.
0:50.2	Today is the unrequited $3 billion divorce of Shakedina Alfasi, who was the wife of
0:58.0	Mohamed Al-Fossi, and oh boy, it gets trashy. Oh yeah. Even after half the people in the story die,
1:06.4	it's still trashy. We think it's everything you like. If we're going to shake, shake, shake,
1:12.7	ourselves into this trashy divorce. We have to go, go, go.
1:16.6	Hey, hey, everybody. Hey, hey, everybody.
1:29.7	Hey, hey.
1:30.3	It's Alicia.
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