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Harry Macklowe’s Soon to be Ex Wants More than $1B in Divorce Settlement

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Real estate developer, Harry Macklowe, offers his soon to be ex-wife half of his $2 billion estate and he thinks it’s the funniest thing, according to the New York Daily News.

Macklowe, 79, couldn’t stop joking with reporters outside a Manhattan civil courtroom Tuesday, while dealing with his messy divorce with his wife, Linda Macklowe, 79, according to Pagesix.

“As soon as this divorce is over, I’m getting remarried,” said the developer—who is famous for establishing properties like the 432 Park Ave. building, which is the tallest (1,396 feet) residential building in the Western Hemisphere, according to Forbes.

Harry said he would offer her $1 billion just so she would sign the legal papers which finalized their divorce so he can marry his new girlfriend, Patricia Landeau, 62, —the president of the French Friends of the Israel Museum—according to Pagesix.

The real estate businessman then gave reporters a show by reciting “wife” jokes, which he has been telling previously on the YouTube channel Old Jews Telling Jokes, according to the New York Daily News.

Here’s one of his witty jokes, which is about a kleptomaniac named Sarah:

“The judge says ‘Sarah, how could you do that. What did you take?’ ‘Just a can of peaches,’ she says. ‘Sarah, you are going to jail for six nights,’ the judge declares. The husband stands up in court, ‘Your honor! She also stole a can of peas!’”

Linda, who did not wish to comment, does not find her husband to be so funny and turned down his offer of half of his fortune, then served him with divorce papers last June, says Pagesix.

According to Pagesix, Macklowe left his wife for his girlfriend after “hiding” her in his 737 Park Ave. property.

“It was no secret in the building that the woman was Harry Macklowe’s girlfriend, and she’s been coming and going for two years,” said a source from Pagesix.

Pagesix reports that Macklowe, who appeared to be unbothered by the odds of losing $1 billion, said that Linda never laughed at his jokes—it’s hard to tell why.

By Eloise Albaret

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