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Adele’s multimilli­on-dollar split

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ADELE has filed for divorce from her husband Simon Konecki, according to legal documents, raising big questions about how her massive estate will be divided.

The Sun reports court documents lodged in Los Angeles reveal Adele has now filed for divorce.

The award-winning singer, 31, announced in April that she and charity entreprene­ur Konecki were separating after three years of marriage.

A spokespers­on for Adele declined to comment on the court proceeding­s.

The duo started dating in 2011 and were secretly married in 2016.

Adele’s fortune is estimated to be as much as £150 million ($F408m).

According to a number of media reports, the couple is not believed to have signed a pre-nuptial agreement.

Under California­n law, Konecki could be entitled to half of Adele’s assets as “community property and community debts are usually divided equally”, The

Evening Standard reported. That means Adele could be left with about £75m ($F204m).

Konecki has previously worked as an investment banker with Lehman Brothers. He quit the company in 2005, later claiming he was “earning a lot of money, but got sick of that greedy and corrupted world”.

He then launched his charity Drop4Drop, which is aimed at helping provide clean water to poor communitie­s worldwide.

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