Phil Collins divorce $40 million, Eight years ago, Phil Collins, 51, split from his wife, Jill Tavelman, with a fax that wound up on the front page of all the British tabloids. After dishing out an estimated $40 million divorce settlement, the former Genesis drummer-turned-front man moved to Lake Geneva, Switzerland, where he lives now with his new wife, Orianne, 30, and their 19-month-old son, Nicholas. Between water-skiing, going partially deaf and writing songs for his next Disney project, Collins also recorded "Testify," his first album of original solo material in six years.


Q: Why did you get married again?

A: Marriage is very important to me. It's a statement of how you feel about someone. I had been married twice before, and when I got married it was all for the right reasons. But then stuff happens. The shoe has been on both feet - - I've been the person that's been pushed (Collins' first marriage ended in 1981 when his wife ran off with their interior decorator) and the person that pushed. But I live in Switzerland. I uprooted my life to be with my wife. I definitely wanted to be with this person and nobody else. That's why I got married. It's not as if I don't believe in it.

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