A Geneva court ordered a Russian fertilizer billionaire to pay his ex-wife 4 billion francs, then an appeal court cut it by 86 percent

Dmitry Rybolovlev made his fortune from the potash producer Uralkali. In 2005, while still married to Elena Rybolovleva, he moved much of his money into Cyprus trusts that did not name her as a beneficiary. She filed for divorce in Geneva in 2008. In May 2014 a Geneva court ordered him to pay her 4,020,555,987.80 Swiss francs, about $4.5 billion, plus Gstaad property worth 130.5 million francs. It was then the largest divorce award on record. The court counted assets moved into the trusts as marital property. In June 2015 the Geneva appeals court cut the payment to about 564 million francs, about $604 million, plus two properties, ruling that the award should be valued from when assets entered the trust, not on later gains. In October 2015 the couple announced they had settled on undisclosed terms. Rybolovlev went on to a separate decade-long art fraud dispute with the dealer Yves Bouvier^†.