Adele reaches multi-million pound divorce deal with ex almost two years after separation

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The Grammy award-winning singer, 32 – worth an estimated £150million – and Simon, 46, filed the finalised terms with a court last Friday. It is believed they had not signed a prenuptial agreement. The details will not be made public after a judge in Los Angeles granted privacy last year. The couple will share custody of their son Angelo, nine.

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The secret settlement ends a long negotiation after they announced they were splitting in April 2019, with Adele filing court documents five months later.

Her representative said at the time: “Adele and her partner have separated. They are committed to raising their son together lovingly.” Friends claimed the couple’s relationship had changed rapidly into a platonic one.

A friend said: “Their relationship evolved and they became more like friends than lovers. They realised the romantic love was no longer there.

“They’re disappointed but it just didn’t work out.” Adele, who shot to fame with Someone Like You, began dating Simon, the millionaire chief of charity Drop4Drop, in 2011 and Angelo was born in October 2012.

The couple, who married secretly in 2016, went on to divide their time between a gated mansion in Los Angeles, a £40million property in Kensington, central London, and another home in Brighton.

Notoriously private, Adele first made reference to her marriage at the 2017 Grammy awards.

As she collected the Album of the Year gong, she said: “Grammys, I appreciate it. The Academy, I love you. My manager, my husband and my son, you’re the only reason I do it.”

But it was clear that all was not well when, two months before they announced their split in 2019, Simon attended the Brit Awards without Adele, instead going with a friend, former  EastEnders actor Sid Owen.

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