Gossip Friday: Wants Not a Cent
From July 1951:
Clark Gable, who plonked out $350,000 to get his freedom from Ria Gable, can relax. Sylvia wants not a cent from him—nor any part of his property. She sent word to me from Honolulu where she had fled after the bitterness of their parting. “Why should I ask for part of his 20-acre ranch in Encino when I own 4,000 acres in Del Mar?” Sylvia asked.
Although Clark remains as mum as an oyster, he told a mutual friend that he has never spent as much money in his life as he did during the year-and-a-half he was married to the former Lady Ashley. He says he built a studio and made all sorts of improvements on the ranch at her insistence, plus redecorating the whole house. As for clothes—well, Sylvia is a gal who likes to dress.
Maybe Clark has been a bachelor too long to get used to paying a lady’s bills—especially when the lady has a million dollars of her own.
2 Comments
Dan
As Gable hated wasting money, I can see why this wife didn’t last very long at all
Melissa
In all fairness, Gable lived off his first two wives a bit, not to mention their intriductions to high society where he learned to be ”high class”. Lombard also bought him a Deusenberg.