Has any man lost harder than JK Rowling's ex-husband?

[YBE]

While there she met Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in a bar, after sharing a mutual interest in Jane Austen. They married on 16 October 1992 and their child, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes (named after Jessica Mitford), was born on 27 July 1993 in Portugal. Rowling had previously suffered a miscarriage. They separated on 17 November 1993, 13 months and one day after their marriage. Biographers have suggested that Rowling suffered domestic abuse during her marriage, although the full extent is unknown. In an interview with The Daily Express, Arantes said on their final night together he had dragged her out of their home at five in the morning and slapped her hard. In December 1993, Rowling and her daughter moved to be near Rowling's sister in Edinburgh, Scotland, with three chapters of Harry Potter in her suitcase.


During this period Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression, and contemplated suicide. It was the feeling of her illness which brought her the idea of Dementors, soul-sucking creatures introduced in the third book. Rowling signed up for welfare benefits, describing her economic status as being "poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless."

Rowling was left in "despair" following the arrival of her estranged husband in search of herself and her daughter. She obtained an order of restraint and Arantes returned to Portugal, with Rowling filing for divorce in August 1994.

I decided to read her biography....

This nikka fukkin LOST!!!!! Shorty worth $1 billion now and you know he aint get shyt

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I wouldnt want to be married to a depressed billionaire.

 

[Mr. Negative]

but if he would have treated her with love and respect, she wouldn't be worth a billion dollars.

 

[Sad Bunny]

success is the best revenge

btw, is her new book any good? or is it for females?

 

[YBE]

but if he would have treated her with love and respect, she wouldn't be worth a billion dollars.

Maybe, maybe not She was working on it years before they met...

 

[Jax]

I wouldnt want to be married to a depressed billionaire.

4 more pills than usual and you're the billionaire.

 

[BrothaZay]

Kelis's husband

 

[OPTiMO]

that dude who Adele's always talking about is up there.

 

[El Guapo]

Brian Dunkleman.

Quit American Idol after the first season, while Ryan Seacrest stays and ends up being worth 9 figures today.