British Millionaire Divorces Wife Then Asks Her to be His Housekeeper

(Source) - A British millionaire who divorced his ex-wife and moved his new girlfriend into the house while she was still living there couldn't understand why she became "so aggressive" when he asked if she would work as his housekeeper.

The couple, whose names were withheld from British press because it was a private family court matter, were married in the late 1970s and divorced in the 90s.

Despite officially divorcing, the two continued to live in the same home until about five years ago, when the man moved his new girlfriend and her 12-year-old daughter into the house.

At that point, the man apparently asked his fifty-something ex-wife if she would continue living in the house in a new role — his housekeeper.

According to reports, "he could not come to terms with why she, through her lawyers, had become so aggressive."

On Wednesday, a judge ruled she was entitled to about $8 million — half of her ex-husbands estate.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this has to be the ballsiest thing I've ever heard of. Asking your bitter, pissed off ex-wife to keep living in the same house as you is one thing, but asking her to do it so you have someone to clean up after your new (younger?) girlfriend and her 12-year-old daughter is clinically psychotic.  This dude should consider himself lucky that he lives in England because if he tried to pull this little stunt in the good ol' U.S. of A I'm fairly certain his ex would have gone all Lorena Bobbitt and chopped his dick off or something.  There's just no fucking way that this goes down that smoothly in the States.  And if it was a black or latino ex wife?  Pff, game over pal. Losing your dick would be the least of your worries if you tried to pull this shit with Shadynasty or Lupita.  Immediate death, no question.  Those women straight up don't play that.  

But as for the judge ruling that she was entitled to 8 million dollars, how does he figure that?  The way I see it, this divorced old bird got to live rent free for a decade.  How is she entitled to anything?  Was she held captive?  Did he secretly tie her up in the basement and rape her, because I could see that being worth like $8 million.  Besides being a complete rube and keeping this bitch around the only other thing I see him doing is offering her a job, so what exactly is he guilty of?  Actually kind of seems like a pretty alright guy.

Let's try to break it down because I just want to make sure I have the whole thing straight:

• The couple divorces.
• Then, out of the goodness of his heart/thickness of his skull, the husband allows his ex-wife to continue living the lifestyle she had grown accustomed to in his home free of charge.  
• Then, because he's a rational adult (besides the whole asking his ex to live with him thing) and a millionaire with tons of options, he chose to move on with his life.  
• Years later, when he wanted his new life partner and her kid to move in, he didn't want to put out his weirdo creep ex-wife who for whatever reason is still cool with hanging around like the clingiest chick of all time. So instead he offers her employment as the housekeeper (kinda degrading but whatever) and the opportunity to stay.  
• Now he's out 8 million bucks. 

K, got it.  Makes total sense, glad we cleared that up.