Buddy Guy's wealth revealed in divorce papers
Dick Waterman
October 24, 2004
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Legal Affairs Reporter Advertisement
Blues legend Buddy Guy had just agreed to give his wife a multimillion-dollar
settlement and considerable maintenance to settle their divorce case.
Then, Jennifer Guy's divorce lawyer, Enrico Mirabelli, asked Guy if he was
going to write a redux of his signature hit, "Damn Right I Got the Blues"
called "Damn Right I Got the 'Divorce' Blues."
No, Guy said, but he did have another new song. He said he was calling it
"Cheaper to Keep 'Er," and he sang a few bars while strumming an air guitar for
the assembled bailiffs, lawyers and his not-very-amused, newly ex-wife.
The terms of the settlement are confidential.
"It's settled, and I think that's best for everybody to just move forward,"
said Buddy Guy's attorney, David Levy of Kalcheim Schatz & Berger.
A Rolls, a Ferrari and a Lexus
Both sides spent five days arguing about who gets which of the couple's five
homes, including an 11,000-square-foot home that sits on 10 to 14 acres in
Orland Park, and their cars -- a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari and a Lexus.
There also were arguments about whether to consider the years from 1975 to
1991 -- when the Guys were together but not yet married -- or just the period
since they married in 1991.
Buddy Guy filed for divorce in 2002.
Though they agreed not to disclose specifics of the settlement, Mirabelli of
Nadler, Pritikin & Mirabelli did allow: "Mrs. Guy is not singing the blues."
$5 million digs
Guy, 68, whose Blues bar Legends at 754 S. Wabash was host to Koko Taylor's
birthday party last weekend, won his fifth Grammy Award this year for the
acoustic album "Blues Singer." Other Grammys were for "Damn Right I've Got the
Blues" and "Feels Like Rain."
Guy was born in Louisiana in a house that did not have running water until
his teen years. He moved to Chicago and taught himself to play, watching Muddy
Waters and blues legends by night as he drove a tow truck during the day.
A profile on Guy's Orland Park home that ran in Ebony in 2000 estimated its
worth at $5 million and said it had 20 rooms -- a long way from his
Lettsworth, La., roots.
"I walked in and it was home," Jennifer Guy was quoted as saying.
"She picks them, I just pay for them," Buddy Guy responded, laughing.
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> "She picks them, I just pay for them," Buddy Guy responded, laughing.
Hot dog
Does he want a new wife? My house is getting old...
Joanna
c. n.
> > "I walked in and it was home," Jennifer Guy was quoted as saying.
> > "She picks them, I just pay for them," Buddy Guy responded, laughing.
>
>Hot dog
>Does he want a new wife? My house is getting old...
>Joanna
Careful, by the time Jennifer and her lawyer take theirs, Buddy may try to
save money by talking you
into a trip to the van instead. . .
Steve Hoffman
this: "Why bother to go through all the trouble of courting, getting
married, and then going through a divorce? Just find a woman you hate,
and give her your house."
I disclaim any responsibility for the joke - it's mean-spirited,
borderline sexist, etc etc. But it did make me laugh! (As Steve Martin
used to say, comedy is NOT pretty).
Steve H.