Biography & Early Wealth Journey

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That's compared to the $1.9 million per year Larry said he was making for hosting infomercials, and Shawn says she deserves a piece of that significantly larger pie. The documents also disclose money they both made as a couple on the sale of their Beverly Hills mansion in January of this year. It's not clear how that factors into the spousal support calculation, but she says they made $4 million on the sale, which was for a total of $15.5 million.

The filing comes as the legendary broadcaster is going through a particularly rough time, having recently taken to Facebook to announce the deaths of two of his children from other marriages: Andy, who died in July at age 65, and Chaia, who passed away in August from lung cancer. This is also the second time Larry and Shawn have gone through divorce proceedings, having also done so in 2010 before calling it off and reconciling. In a recent People interview about his divorce from Shawn, he cited their age difference (26 years) and religious differences between the two as reasons for their split.