A divorce that scandalized Manhattan society has been quietly settled for more than a billion dollars, has exclusively learned.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Israel Englander — one of the world’s richest men — has agreed to pay former wife Caryl upwards of $1 billion after she left him for a woman following more than 40 years of marriage.
The divorce settlement comes after Caryl, 69, filed an astonishing civil lawsuit alleging the 74-year-old Millennium Management co-founder — who is worth $11.3 billion, according to Forbes — “became enraged” when she “fell in love” with Swiss gallerist Dominique Levy, 55.
She owns the prestigious Dominique Levy Gallery on Madison Avenue, which sells works by artists such as Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella, Cindy Sherman and Jackson Pollock.
In the civil suit, filed on February 9, the two women alleged Israel “terrorized” them both in a supposed effort to bilk Caryl out of billions in the divorce by making her sign a 2020 post-nuptial agreement. The filing was mysteriously withdrawn a week later — and the divorce was just settled privately out of court.
Caryl’s lawyer Peter E. Bronstein, from Rottenstreich, Lieberman, Farley LLP, exclusively confirmed to us, “Caryl is happy to have settled their issues privately and amicably. The agreement does not allow either party to discuss the terms.” Israel’s attorney John Teitler didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The Englanders’ 40-year marriage deteriorated in 2016 following Israel’s “repeated unfaithfulness to Caryl,” she and Levy had claimed in the civil lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court. Plus, “She fell in love with another woman, Dominique,” the suit states.
Israel — named the highest-paid hedge funder of 2020 with earnings of $3.8 billion — then “set out to terrorize the two women to force a break in their relationship, believing he could intimidate Caryl into…
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