I immediately thought of the title of this blog after hearing about actress Ellen Barkin’s successful auction. For all of you who didn’t follow the ugly, bitter, lengthy divorce battle that took place between Barkin and her billionaire husband Ron Perelman (which made headlines for months)—you don’t know what you missed. (I say that very tongue-in-cheek.) It was nasty, it was brutal, and it put what occurred between Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner’s characters in the 1989 movie “War of the Roses” to shame. Long story short, after six years of marriage, Perelman surprised Barkin with divorce papers… and the … Continue reading →