Dan Abrams’ ‘Closing Argument’ On Nick & Jessica Split
‘Abrams Report’ host Dan Abrams talked about Jessica Simpson’s split from Nick Lachey on Thursday’s program. “My ‘Closing Argument’—who would have thought it would take the breakup of Nick and Jessica for me to do a closing about prenuptial agreements,” Abrams said. “Well call me a pessimist, unromantic, criticize me be for being too pragmatic and for believing you shouldn‘t let love interfere with business. But I‘ll say it anyway.”
“If you‘ve got some cash or may get some, do it, do it, do it. It will just be a worthless piece of paper if it all works out. I promise only a tiny percentage of the 38 percent of marriages that fail predict doom at the outset. So why didn‘t Jessica Simpson insist that Nick Lachey sign a prenuptial agreement?
“Well, she apparently thought a prenup wasn‘t romantic and that it was antithetical to her religious upbringing. OK, well now under California law he‘s entitled to half of their community property. That is the combined total of what the two of them have earned since they got married. And since the couple‘s nuptials back in October 2002, Jessica has brought home a lot more bacon than former boy band member Nick.
“We buy car insurance, not because we want to get into an accident, but because we just might. We write wills not necessarily because we expect to die soon, but because who knows what‘s going to happen tomorrow. And we should sign prenups, not because we don‘t expect to live happily ever after, but because you never know.
“Let me put this into Jessica terms who thought Buffalo wings were made of buffalo. A celebrity marriage without a prenup is kind of like well a fake Louis Vuitton bag. It looks great when you buy it, but without that warranty, there‘s nothing to protect you when it falls apart. Nick really was the smart one.
“Back when the two tied the knot in 2002, he was the bigger star, the lead singer of “98 Degrees”, a couple of the boy band albums had just gone platinum. Jessica hadn‘t come close to making the kind of money her contemporaries Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera were pulling in. When asked about it back then, Nick laughed and told a reporter (INAUDIBLE) I don‘t want to do one, because I know she‘ll end up making more money than me.
“Nice. Well maybe Nick will be noble and let Jessica keep her earnings from everything from “The Dukes of Hazzard” to her own line of sweet scented body creams. But if he does not, well then Jessica has paid a pretty hefty price in the love business. But as Jessica herself her boots are made for walking. Something tells me even after paying Nick off, she might still have enough left over to make sure those boots are designer boots.”
Tags: Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey
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