John Cleese complains he’s “surprisingly poor” due to divorce

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Monty Python film Life Of Brian as well as Fawlty Towers in the works. He is also working on a musical version of A Fish Called Wanda, and recently hosted a programme on GB News called The Dinosaur Hour.In a forthcoming interview with SagaMagazine, Cleese puts the costly end to his third marriage to Alyce Faye Eichelberger, an American psychotherapist, as one of the main reasons he is working so hard late in his life.The couple split in 2008 after 16 years of marriage.

Cleese travelled the world on ‘The Alimony Tour’ to raise the necessary money – $20million (£16million) – in the divorce settlement.“Can you believe when I met her, I had a beautiful house in Holland Park and no mortgage and when I broke up with her, I had a flat in Sloane Square and a full mortgage?

How they figured out she was worth $20m, I have no idea.”However, he said he was past the negativity he had towards the situation. “I had to let go of the anger and what helped me was that it was so ridiculous, so absurd.”Cleese doesn’t own a car or property, having handed over the short lease of his flat to his current wife, Jennifer Wade, which made a “huge difference” to her.“I never thought it was necessary to own a great deal,” he said.