Mel Gibson and Robyn Gibson divorced after 31 years, 7 months of marriage. The settlement was reportedly about $425M. See the full timeline.
Figures are reported estimates. Last updated Oct 2026.
Robyn received half of Mel's estimated $850M fortune. No prenup.
Mel Gibson, the Hollywood star and director who spent much of his youth in Australia, met Robyn Denise Moore in the late 1970s, when both were tenants in the same shared house in Adelaide. Moore, then a dental nurse, was already part of his life before he had any fame, and the couple married on 7 June 1980, just as his screen career was taking off. Together they raised seven children, six of whom were adults by the time the marriage ended. For three decades Robyn stayed largely out of the spotlight while her husband became one of the most bankable and most controversial figures in film.
Gibson's fortune rested on a run of commercial hits and a producer's instinct. After Mad Max (1979) and Gallipoli (1981), he became a Hollywood leading man in the Lethal Weapon series, and in 1989 he co-founded the production company Icon Productions. As a director he won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director for Braveheart (1995). His biggest gamble was The Passion of the Christ (2004), which he largely financed himself and which grossed more than $600 million worldwide. A 2006 Los Angeles Business Journal estimate, repeated in coverage of the divorce, put his fortune at up to $850 million, most of it earned during the marriage.
Gibson and Moore married in 1980, when his career was only beginning, and the marriage lasted 31 years. The break-up happened largely out of public view: Moore filed for divorce in 2009, and a Los Angeles judge finalized the judgment on 23 December 2011, with the divorce taking effect on 9 January 2012. By then both spouses were 55, and only the youngest of their seven children, aged 12, was subject to a custody arrangement.
The judgment kept virtually all details of the settlement secret. Media reports nonetheless put the payout at about $425 million, equal to half of Gibson's estimated $850 million fortune, and one wire report described Gibson as being 'about $425 million poorer'. People magazine reported that Moore was also entitled to half of any film residuals Gibson would receive for the rest of his life. Because the figure rests on a 2006 estimate of his wealth rather than a disclosed court order, it is best read as a reported amount rather than a confirmed one.
According to People, the couple had no prenuptial agreement, and California is a community property state, where assets earned during a marriage are generally divided equally. The marriage lasted 31 years, and almost the whole of Gibson's career as a star, producer and director fell within it, so his wealth was overwhelmingly marital property. Moore's role as the mother of seven children and the stable base of the family during his rise strengthened a claim that the law already made a strong one.
Gibson kept control of his creative career and his production interests, but the reported division gave Moore a lasting claim on income from his back catalog through the share of film residuals. The divorce did not end his work behind the camera: he went on to direct Hacksaw Ridge (2016), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Details of how Moore's share was funded, and what she did with it, have not been made public, and she has largely stayed out of the public eye.
At a reported $425 million, the Gibson divorce is widely described as one of the largest in Hollywood history, although the figure is an estimate. It sits well above most entertainment-industry splits but far below billionaire-class settlements such as Harold Hamm's roughly $975 million Oklahoma divorce in 2014 or MacKenzie Scott's Amazon stake, worth about $38 billion at the time of her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos. Its significance lies in how cleanly it illustrates the effect of California's equal-division rule on a fortune built entirely within one long marriage.
The couple's story began in a shared rented house in Adelaide, long before Gibson was a star. Their seven children are Hannah, Edward, Christian, William, Louis, Milo and Thomas. The divorce was finalized just before Christmas 2011, and press coverage at the time called it one of the biggest celebrity payouts ever recorded. Gibson's later film Hacksaw Ridge was widely seen as a professional comeback after the turbulent years in which the marriage ended.
Robyn Gibson's reported settlement was about $425 million.
They married in 1980 and divorced in 2011, a marriage of roughly 31 years.
No prenuptial agreement was reported.
Yes, the family is reported to include 7 children.
Reported assets include: Malibu estate, Australian properties, film royalties, Icon Productions stake.
According to People, the couple had no prenuptial agreement, and California is a community property state, where assets earned during a marriage are generally divided equally. The marriage lasted 31 years, and almost the whole of Gibson's career as a star, producer and director fell within it, so his wealth was overwhelmingly marital property.