At first glance, Sonja Morgan seems to have made out like a bandit after her 2006 split. The public divorce settlement between her and ex-husband John Adams Morgan revealed that she was awarded a whopping lump sum of $3 million, per Casetext. Meanwhile, other Housewives in similar positions have received far less: Shereé Whitfield of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” who fits the divorced-and-rebuilding archetype of that series, earned just $1 million in her split from NFL player Bob Whitfield. The Morgans’ divorce settlement also states that Sonja would receive $12,500 in monthly child support for their daughter Quincy, which totals out to $150,000 a year.
Just by looking at the official court document, one might be confused about Morgan’s post-divorce financial status — she’s notoriously frugal on the show, largely living in the same townhouse and employing unpaid interns over the course of her 11 featured seasons, and it wouldn’t make sense for the money to dry up so quickly. As it turns out, she never actually received it: Upon being ordered to pay the $3 million lump sum, John Adams Morgan claimed he was “destitute” and unable to do so, per the American Bankruptcy Institute. To make matters worse, Sonja invested in and then pulled out of a John Travolta film, leading to millions in debt, bankruptcy, and even a lawsuit. Fortunately, she’s finally on the right track, with her financial and legal issues long behind her.
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