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A $20 million claim against Phil Collins from his ex-wife Orianne Cevey was dismissed by a Miami judge on Friday, according to PageSix. This could mean the end of a protracted legal battle between the 48-year-old Swiss-American woman and the 71-year-old rock drummer and singer.
Cevey’s suit of $20 million was for half of the worth of the mansion they once shared, which was sold in January 2021. Her suit stated that Collins once promised that she would receive half of the sale if she moved back in with him. Florida Judge Alan Fine, however, dismissed the case, and was reported as saying “I’m done with this,” and “I feel comfortable saying enough is enough.” Fine ruled that Cevey made 10 different violations of the court’s orders.
It’s been quite a back-and-forth between the couple, who were first married from 1999 to 2007. Cevey then married an investment banker in 2008, finalizing a divorce in 2017. But she was back with the Genesis leader in 2015. They broke up again in 2020, and she has since married someone new. Collins and Cevey have two sons, aged 21 and 17.
In October of 2020, Collins sued Cevey, accusing her of refusing to vacate their Miami property. His claim referred to it at the time as “an armed occupation and takeover.” There then followed reports of Cevey putting up many of Collins’s possessions for auction, like a gold Robert Plant record (1983’s The Principle of Moments, to be specific) on which Collins played drums on a few tracks. The items “no longer sparked joy for her,” a rep said in January 2021.
Cevey was also recently accused of punching her 10-year-old son.
Collins began his career as the drummer for Genesis in the late 1960s, when they were led by Peter Gabriel and played elaborate and lengthy “prog rock.” When Gabriel left for a solo career in the mid-1970s, Collins took over as vocalist led the band toward a more radio-friendly pop format, and also launched a tremendously successful solo career of his own in the early 1980s.
A Genesis reunion tour, said to be the last, concluded in March of this year, and saw Collins too frail to get behind the drum set. “I’d love to but I can barely hold a stick with this hand. So there are certain physical things that get in the way,” he said during a BBC interview. He sang from a seated position during each show.
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