Keith City might stand to achieve thousands and thousands in his divorce from Nicole Kidman due to a ‘cocaine clause’ included of their prenup.
The nation music star, 57, could be quids in when his marriage to the Babygirl actress is formally dissolved, as he is held up his finish of the discount throughout their 19-year union.
The pair have plenty of belongings to divide when their divorce ultimately goes via, as they reportedly amassed a $500 million fortune collectively throughout their relationship.
City and Kidman have additionally received an enviable property portfolio and reportedly personal 11 luxurious pads collectively throughout the US and Australia.
The daddy-of-two, from New Zealand, is alleged to have moved out of the household house in Nashville and into one other close by property in wake of their cut up.
Reviews declare that he and Kidman have lived aside because the begin of summer season.
City could be eyeing up a lavish pad to place down new roots in quickly although, as he is apparently set to obtain fairly the windfall within the divorce.
The ‘Days Go By’ singer might pocket greater than $17million from Kidman due to a so-called ‘cocaine clause’ that was reportedly included of their prenuptial settlement.
Earlier than they walked down the aisle and mentioned their ‘I do’s’ in June 2006 at a ceremony in Sydney, the Aussie A-listers agreed to abide by a variety of phrases within the occasion of their relationship ending.
In accordance to the New Zealand Herald, the authorized doc ‘consists of a number of clauses you wouldn’t discover in a traditional prenup’ – together with one referring to City sticking to his sobriety.
Previous to their wedding ceremony practically twenty years in the past, the Grammy winner was grappling with drug habit and alcoholism.
And simply 4 months into their marriage, Kidman was pressured to stage an intervention for her new husband, which City later described as a pivotal second in turning his life round.
Earlier this 12 months throughout an look on The Zane Lowe Present, he mentioned of this time in his life: “All via the years of ingesting and doing medicine and all the remainder of it, I at all times had this very particular voice inside me that goes, ‘In the future, you are gonna come to a crossroads or a fork within the highway, and it will be the ultimate one’.
“I knew that was it,” he mentioned in reference to marrying Kidman. “I am like, ‘Oh, that is that fork within the highway’. You are both gonna select to get out of this s**t, otherwise you’re by no means gonna get out of it.”
City beforehand told Rolling Stone that his points with medicine and alcohol received out of hand after he moved from Australia to Nashville whereas attempting to crack the nation music scene within the States.
“After I was onstage, I felt good, but when I used to be not onstage, I used to be very, very insecure,” he mentioned. “I felt like I didn’t have a lot of something to supply. I used to be simply an alien.”
City went on to elucidate {that a} unhealthy breakup previous to his relationship with Kidman solely made issues worse, including: “I stepped up my ingesting. I began doing extra medicine. Yeah, man. The entire again finish of the Nineties had been simply terrible.”
He had a handful of unsuccessful stints in rehab however managed to get again on the straight and slim with the assistance of his spouse Kidman.
And as City has managed to take care of his sobriety over the past 19 years, he may very well be in for an enormous payday.
Reviews declare {that a} ‘cocaine clause’ was included in his and Kidman’s prenup, which said that he would obtain a monetary reward if he steered away from booze and substances.
In accordance to numerous shops together with Radar On-line, it was reportedly agreed that City would earn $900,000 for yearly of marriage he remained teetotal.
