her to “take all the furniture and art you like” and a subsequent media report pointed out Mr. Gross was aware of the existence of a replica. Through a representative, Sue claimed there was no way Bill could have been fooled by her imitation – no matter how pristine – because it has a different frame than the original Picasso. In another case, Sue Gross played a practical joke on her ex-husband when he was expecting a delivery of the rare 1-cent Z-Grill stamp from 1868 featuring Benjamin Franklin as the final piece of his stamp collection. Worth an estimated $2.97 million, the stamp arrived at the Gross home, where Sue accepted the package and opened it. She created a "new" Z-Grill and marked the fake stamp in pesos, then repackaged the faux Z-Grill in a FedEx envelope. After he figured out the ruse, Gross put both the real stamp and impostor in his stamp album, writing the $2.97 million cost under the real stamp, and "priceless" under Sue’s version, which he admitted was the favorite of the two. Divorce By the summer of 2016, Sue had moved out of the couple’s $31 million seaside mansion in Laguna Beach, opting to split her time among their two homes in the Los Angeles area because of Bill’s “increasingly erratic and abusive behavior,” she alleged in court documents filed later that year. She filed for divorce on November 22, 2016. "After I filed the petition, Bill commenced a rampage against me and members of my family,” she alleged in court filings. Sue and her attorneys filed copies of these emails with the court as part of her evidence in an application for a temporary restraining order against Bill." Temporary restraining orders have been issued at one point or another against both parties. Sue received roughly $1.3 billion in the divorce including a $36 million house in Laguna Beach and half of the couple's art collection. Real estate Sue Gross is a significant owner of residential real estate in Southern California, with two homes in Beverly Hills, and five houses and a lot in the private community of Irvine Cove in Laguna Beach, several of which she received in the divorce from Bill Gross. Sue has been investing in real estate for more than 30 years and is estimated to have netted millions of dollars over the years. References 1950 births Living people