5 Nastiest Celeb Divorces

Marriage is hard work, we know, but sometimes a couple can put everything they have into making their relationship work, and it still goes bad. And then it gets worse, when it comes time to divide up kids, pets, and that signed vintage copy of Thriller that you swear was originally yours. It turns out that Hollywood's famous faces really are just like us, as we’ve seen in the horrible mess Nas and Kelis have gotten themselves into. Famous people's divorces are nasty, mudslinging affairs, but damned entertaining ones.

Amy Winehouse & Blake "Incarcerated" Fielder-Civil

It's always a shame when a marriage built on mutual addiction goes awry. But awry it went: Amy and Blake had only been married four months when she first contemplated leaving him, back in September 2007. Rumors of his cheating and that he married her for her money had dogged the relationship, and Blake reportedly threatened to kill himself if she left him, so the marriage limped on through his jail sentence for "perverting the course of justice"—that is, he tried to bribe a guy he assaulted not to press charges. The pair held a jailhouse vow renewal in January 2008, but when he was released from prison in February 2009, Blake declared he wanted a divorce. And then he promptly knocked up a junkie (who wasn't Amy) and demanded $9 million from Amy for inspiring her Back to Black album—by dumping her. Their split was mercifully finalized by a UK court July 16, and thank Jebus for it, because every single thing Amy and Blake do makes our heads hurt.