British Advertising mogul Martin Sorrel has been instructed to pay his ex wife Sandra $45 million, one of the biggest divorce settlements in world legal history. Sorrel, 60 is the founder of $ 12 billion WPP Empire which owns creative extreme O&M (Ogilvy and Mather) and strategic best JWT (J. Walter Thompson) spreading over 100 countries and more than 1700 offices across the world. Sandra, the 59 year old women accused her husband of ‘dehumnanisation’ and ‘Marginalisation’ who after taking a mistress ‘discarded’ her.
All said and done, imagine the scale of the settlement, a huge $45 million and now just imagine how many accounts and hard long days agencies have to work for to earn the same.
