{"id":47150,"date":"2012-02-01T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/02\/don-cornelius-ex-wife-scores-huge-life-insurance-payout\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:27:00","slug":"don-cornelius-ex-wife-scores-huge-life-insurance-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/02\/01\/don-cornelius-ex-wife-scores-huge-life-insurance-payout\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Cornelius&#8217; Ex-Wife Scores Huge Life Insurance Payout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Don Cornelius<\/span> <span>Ex-Wife Scores Huge<\/span> <span>Life Insurance Payout<\/span> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"50.684065934066\">\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0201_don_cornelius_victorie_getty_EX\" src=\"http:\/\/ll-media.tmz.com\/2012\/02\/01\/0201-don-cornelius-victorie-getty-ex.jpg\" \/>Don Cornelius<\/strong> died with 2 life insurance policies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the ex-wife he hated will get all the money &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;s breakup with Viktoria Chapman Cornelius was brutal.\u00a0 He was convicted of domestic abuse and, according to him, she pepper sprayed him multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>During the divorce in 2009, Don said in legal docs obtained by TMZ, &#8216;I am 72 years old.\u00a0 I have significant health issues.\u00a0 I want to finalize this divorce before I die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The divorce was indeed finalized later that year, but there&#8217;s a provision in the settlement agreement that says Don must make Viktoria the beneficiary of both of his life insurance policies &#8212; totaling around $300,000 in benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Under California law, if a policyholder commits suicide within 2 years of the time the policy is issued, the company can deny payment.\u00a0\u00a0 But Don had the policy for more than 2 years, so Viktoria &#8212; the woman he despised &#8212; will get the loot.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"continued\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2012\/02\/01\/don-cornelius-ex-wife-life-insurance-policy\/\" title=\"Don Cornelius' Ex-Wife Scores Huge Life Insurance Payout\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Cornelius&#8217; Ex-Wife Scores Huge Life Insurance Payout<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Don Cornelius Ex-Wife Scores Huge Life Insurance Payout Don Cornelius died with 2 life insurance policies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the ex-wife he hated will get all the money &#8230; TMZ has learned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Don Cornelius&#039; Ex-Wife Scores Huge Life Insurance Payout - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/02\/01\/don-cornelius-ex-wife-scores-huge-life-insurance-payout\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Don Cornelius&#039; Ex-Wife Scores Huge Life Insurance Payout - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Don Cornelius Ex-Wife Scores Huge Life Insurance Payout Don Cornelius died with 2 life insurance policies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the ex-wife he hated will get all the money ... 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