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  • Celebrity couples often use prenups or relationship agreements to address finances and expectations.
  • Some wealthy couples who skipped agreements ended up with sizable divorce settlements.
  • Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade have a prenup, while celebs like Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller don’t.

An American royal wedding is on the horizon with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement.

As the pop star and the football player join the club of ultrawealthy celebrity couples, it’s natural to wonder: What could their multimillion-dollar prenup look like?

Whether it’s with a legally binding prenup, a postnup, or a more flexible relationship agreement, celebrity couples often get on the same page about their futures.

“Two egos in a marriage can be great if all the important issues are agreed upon up front,” Handel Group co-president and life coach Laurie Gerber previously told Business Insider.

While prenups are traditionally thought of as worst-case-scenario financial planning, relationship agreements aren’t always all about the money.

Some of the most important issues couples should agree upon early on include sexual and romantic needs, family boundaries, and who pays for what, and putting it into writing can give a marriage a better chance of success.

Most breakups happen because of cheating, Gerber said.

“Couples who face the reality of this threat head-on and deal with it stand the most chance of success,” she said.

“Don’t be afraid to put it all in writing to refer back to as a living, breathing document. And plan to have meetings about how you are running your marriage and family just as you would for your company or any other project you care about profoundly.”

From meticulously detailing procedures in case of infidelity to leaving it up to fate, here’s how some celebrity couples handled their pre-nuptial agreements.

Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade

When Gabrielle Union married NFL player Chris Howard in 2001, the couple did not have a prenup in place. Following their 2006 split and her 2013 engagement to Dwyane Wade, the actor began speaking out about the financial arrangements the couple would make, such as splitting bills 50/50.

“The biggest difference between this and the last marriage will be a prenup — at my insistence,” Union said on “The Arsenio Hall Show” in February 2014, as reported by Us Weekly. “I’ve got to protect my stuff. It’s the wave of the future, protecting your stuff.”

The couple got married in 2014.

Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller

After a yearlong engagement and four years of dating, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller got married in 2011. The couple did not sign a prenup, a decision that he talked about and defended earlier that same year.

On “The Howard Stern Show” in January 2011, Stern asked the comedian if he was signing a prenup prior to marrying Miller.

“I’m not,” Rogen said, as reported by Today in 2011. “My business manager told me to get one too.”

Howard Stern then asked the actor to reconsider his decision, which Rogen defended on the air.

“Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions, then it’ll be the best millions I’ve spent,” Rogen said.

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari

Before Britney Spears and Sam Asghari’s wedding in 2022, the popstar made him sign an “ironclad prenup,” as the actor and fitness instructor called it in an Instagram post where he joked the agreement would “protect [his] jeep and shoe collection in case she dumps [him] one day,” per People.

When the two filed for divorce 14 months later, the court decided that Asghari was not to receive spousal support from the singer, and that assets would be divided according to the agreement, Billboard reported.

Forbes estimated the singer’s net worth to be around $60 million in 2021, while the actor and fitness trainer’s has been estimated at around $3 million, although it hasn’t been confirmed.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan

Before marrying in 2012, when Priscilla Chan moved to Palo Alto, California, she and Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg drew up a relationship agreement, according to Sarah Lacy’s 2008 book about Silicon Valley founders, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good.”

In the agreement, Lacy wrote, Zuckerberg agreed to take Chan on a date once a week and spend 100 minutes of alone time together each week outside the office or his apartment.

Facebook has previously declined to comment on whether the couple also has a prenup.

While the couple’s net worth isn’t reported separately as the two hold many joint assets, Zuckerberg’s is estimated at $246.9 billion as of October 3, per Forbes.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West

Before Kim Kardashian and Kanye West tied the knot in 2014, the two signed a prenuptial agreement keeping their assets mostly separate. The couple did not publicly comment on their agreement.

In 2022, the couple reached a divorce settlement, in which West was ordered to pay the reality TV mogul $200,000 in child support each month.

The settlement came two years after the couple filed for divorce. It also outlined that they were to split their children’s healthcare, security, and educational expenses and divide their assets per the prenuptial agreement.

In April, Forbes reported Kardashian’s net worth to be $1.7 billion, while it estimates West’s to be near $400 million.

Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott

Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott got married in 1993, within six months of meeting. At the time, both worked at an investment management firm in New York City, but it was shortly after their wedding that the couple moved to Seattle, where Bezos founded Amazon.

Four children and 25 years of marriage later, the couple split. Without a prenup in place, Bezos’ then-$137 billion fortune — which he had built as the CEO of Amazon and which had made him the richest man in the world at the time — was considered community property in their state of Washington, and Scott was entitled to half of it as part of their divorce.

After months of negotiation, the couple’s divorce settlement granted Scott with $38 billion in Amazon shares, which made her the third-richest woman at the time.

As of October 3, Forbes estimates Scott’s net worth at $33.2 billion and reports that the author has donated over $19.3 billion to nonprofits. Bezos, on the other hand, is worth an estimated $235.9 billion today, according to Forbes.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban signed a prenup before their June 2006 wedding stipulating that Urban — who’s publicly detailed his struggles with alcohol and cocaine in the 1990s — would seek treatment if he started drinking or using drugs, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Months after the couple married, Urban checked into rehab for an alcohol addiction, per Us Weekly.

“We both met each other exactly at the right time,” Urban told People magazine in 2007. “She said early on that she wanted to be brave with me. I feel there was something else at work, bringing us together and then just continuing to watch over us.”

In September 2025, Kidman filed for divorce.

People reported that the divorce filing says both celebrities are responsible for their own debts and are not required to pay spousal support. Child support was also waived as Urban had “prepaid all child support obligations,” per People’s reports. Each will also retain the separate bank accounts, assets, and intellectual property they individually own.

The couple did not report any joint or individual assets. Instead they own property “through trusts, limited liability companies and/or other entities,” and the property will be given to each per the agreements of those, People reported.

The couple has not publicly commented on the details of a prenup.

In 2023, the Australian Financial Review estimated their combined net worth to be A$695 million ($176 million).

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton

When Gwen Stefani divorced Gavin Rossdale in 2016, the singer’s ex-husband was entitled to half of the fortune and assets accumulated during the marriage as the couple did not have a prenup, per People.

While their divorce settlement ended with an “unequal split” where Stefani got to keep most of her properties, the singer had a different approach in her subsequent marriage to Blake Shelton in 2021.

Before getting married, Shelton and Stefani — who have not publicly commented about the nature of their agreement — signed a prenuptial agreement after “a few months of negotiations,” Us Weekly reported in 2020.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel

The New York Daily News reported in 2013 that Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake have an infidelity clause in their prenup that states Biel will receive $500,000 if Timberlake cheats.

The couple has not publicly confirmed the details or nature of an agreement.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck

Twenty years after their original 2002 engagement — which resulted in a public breakup — Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck tied the knot in 2022, and they did so without drafting prenuptial agreements beforehand, People reported in 2024, using information in Lopez’s divorce filing. Neither actor has publicly commented on their prenup.

The couple eloped in Las Vegas in July 2022 and then filed for divorce in August 2024. The lack of a prenup meant that any income or assets the actor and the singer earned or acquired during their short-lived marriage would be considered community property and could be divided upon a divorce, People reported.

The couple settled the divorce in February 2025. Each kept the assets they had prior to eloping and the income and assets they earned during their marriage.

Forbes reported Lopez’s net worth to be $150 million in 2020, and Affleck’s has been estimated to be $150 million as well, although it’s not confirmed.

Justin and Hailey Bieber

Justin and Hailey Bieber’s relationship has been anything but traditional. A month after reuniting in June 2018, the two got engaged, legally marrying only a couple of months later in a civil ceremony.

The singer and the model did not sign any prenuptial agreements regarding their existing assets, People reported in 2018. The couple has not publicly commented on the reports.

Without a prenup, both of their acquired fortunes and assets would be considered community property if the two were to divorce.

In 2017, before the two got married, Forbes estimated the singer’s net worth at $83.5 million, although it is now estimated to be much higher. Hailey Bieber’s wealth was boosted by e.l.f. Beauty’s $1 billion acquisition of her Rhode skincare line.



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