Billionaire in$ults his ex

THIS divorce battle is so contentious, hundreds of millions is considered a dis.

John Paulson offered his ex, Jenny, hundreds of millions in cash in their divorce — but she called the offer “humiliating and demeaning,” Page Six has learned.

According to a 2022 email seen by Page Six, Jenny said of being offered that while their two kids would get trusts worth billions: “The idea that I should receive less than the children is humiliating and demeaning because this is the message that it gives to the world and to my own daughters.”

Jenny added it “is just disrespectful, shameful and humiliating to me.” She also wrote that

Paulson’s offer after 21 years of marriage was “too demeaning” to her. “In my heart and my spirit I feel I deserve a 50/50 split,” or at the very least, “60/40 is OK,” she wrote.

Her ex’s offer would continue to make her “one of the one of the richest women in America,” according to his side.

Sources said that Paulson’s offer to Jenny involved giving her the hundreds of millions up front, plus many millions more annually over the course of her life — making for an additional sum in the hundreds of millions. They would then split their property and assets in the divorce, a source said, including their vast residential holdings.

But Jenny’s side has fired back that Paulson has only offered her an “allowance,” rather than “an ‘equitable’ division of all assets [accrued] during the marriage,” per New York law. And in the 2022 email, she calls their children’s trusts “a gimmick” that he “created to control me”: Paulson would “stay in control of the trusts and the money.” His team said in a new statement to Page Six in the never-ending battle that breaking the trusts would cost the Paulson kids a whopping $1 billion in taxes.

In 2022, we reported that Jenny had terminated all private settlement discussions to go back to court so she could fight her ex. The dispute is ongoing.