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London. He has vacated the apartment in the exclusive Carre d’Or
district and put all the furniture and most of the artworks on sale
through the Monaco Life website.
It appears that loneliness and
the need to have his friends close at hand eventually overrode all
practical reasons for living abroad, which is unfortunate because the
finances are not looking too clever either.
Since he has quit
Monaco before the end of the current tax year, he will have to pay a
whole year’s tax to the Inland Revenue, which was precisely what he went
to Monaco to avoid.
The fact that he is offering bespoke pieces
such as a sofa and a pair of side tables by -Hollywood designer
Christopher Guy at the “deeply discounted” prices of £2,632 and £2,018
respectively and a ponyskin- covered chaise longue also at £2,632
suggests the need for a quick sale.
In January, Cleese was also
selling his film memorabilia through a specialist website. Among the
items offered on Original Memorabilia are a fibreglass helmet from the
film Monty Python And The Holy Grail for £999 and seven photographs
depicting classic moments from Monty Python or Cleese’s later hit Fawlty
Towers.
Only the new wife – the former Jennifer Wade – is still
with him which is just as well as it was the divesting of a previous
wife that landed Cleese in the sort of financial bother that
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one of the most notorious recent showbusiness divorces, the third Mrs
Cleese – American psychotherapist Alyce Faye Eichelberger – won a
£12million settlement when their 16-year marriage ended in 2008. An
American judge ordered Cleese to hand over £8million in cash and
property and to pay her £600,000 a year until 2016.
“Think what
I’d have had to pay Alyce if she had contributed anything to the
relationship,” he quipped at the time. In more serious vein he said:
“What I find so unfair is that if we both died today, her children would
get much more than mine.”
The divorce forced him to go on the
road with a one-man show he dubbed the Alimony Tour or Feeding The
Beast. “At least I will know in future if I go out with a lady she will
not be after me for my money.”
That much at least appears to be true of Jennifer,Find the best iPhone headset
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fourth Mrs Cleese last August on Mustique, which came as a surprise to
Cleese’s friends who had been told the wedding would be in September in
Monaco. The couple celebrated with just six guests (including Jen’s
parents, who are both younger than their new son-in-law) and theShop for
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The
sudden change of plan did little to allay fears among some close
associates. Before the wedding fellow Python Terry Gilliam said: “If he
does get married, he’s stupid. John has been married three times already
and always to the same woman. They always seem to be blonde and
American. The only difference is that each time they get younger and
younger.” Jennifer’s predecessors Connie Booth (the actress and
co-writer of Fawlty Towers), actress Barbara Trentham and Alice Faye are
indeed all American blondes.
Cleese admits he is “naive” when
it comes to women and has suggested Connie Booth was the only one of his
exes he really loved. He asked Jennifer out after passing her in the
street in 2009 and knew theirs would be a serious relationship after
their first date because he felt the same as he had with Connie.
“In the past I was more ticking boxes, not having an immediate being-in-love thing which I did have with Connie.”
He
married Alyce Faye because it “seemed appropriate”. It turned out to be
anything but. He had to give her their New York flat and £2million mews
house in Holland Park, west London, and sell a California beach house
to raise cash. However owning a £1.45million flat in Chelsea (bought
post-divorce )and a home in Bath (so Jennifer can be close to her
parents) is not most people’s idea of being hard up. Nor is it easy to
empathise with a man who complains about having to spend two months a
year “doing work that is of no interest to me and which is probably
slightly spiritually depleting” when so many feel spiritually depleted
all year.
Some of Cleese’s friends wonder whether he has the
capacity to be happy anywhere for very long. Ex-Python Michael Palin
says: “Something about John was always very unsettled, I felt. There was
always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly driven by
this sense that there was a nirvana somewhere; some unique place where
mind,Shopping is the best place to comparison shop for stainless steel bracelet. body and soul would be utterly satisfied.” Only time will tell if that place proves to be in London with Jennifer.
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