Inside football’s most explosive divorces…from star’s £10m payout to bitter split over twins fathered by another man
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FOOTBALLERS' love lives are notoriously messy - with numerous reports of playing away. And that can lead to explosive and VERY costly divorces. Kyle Walker's bitter split from his wife, Annie Kilner, is the latest case shaking the sport. Annie finally filed for divorce earlier this year after their marriage was wracked by a series of scandals.
![[Kyle Walker, who shares four kids with Annie Kilner, is set for a courtroom showdown after she served him divorce papers]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/strictly-no-mail-line-usage-938494833_45d09b.jpg?strip=all&w=639)
In 2020, she agreed to stay with Kyle, 34, after it was revealed he had fathered a child with Lauryn Goodman during a brief affair and she stood by him during a bitter court battle which saw the Manchester City ace ordered pay a substantial amount. But, after it emerged that Kyle had fathered a second child with his on-off mistress, she is now preparing to battle it out in court for half of his staggering £27million fortune.
![[It comes after he fathered two kids with his on-off mistress Lauyn Goodman]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lauryn-goodman-attends-tempus-magazine-920995676.jpg?strip=all&w=673)
But Kyle is far from alone in seeing his marriage end in explosive claims and courtroom showdowns over the players' eye-watering wealth. Former Arsenal right-back Emmanuel Eboue, 41, had one of the most acrimonious divorces in football. During his seven-year stint in the Premier League, he built an enviable fortune but lost it all in a bitter split with his ex-wife, Aurelie Bertrand, in 2017.
![[Kyle was previously in a legal battle with Lauryn over child support payments]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-kyle-walker-arriving-central-920980807.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
She was awarded all their assets in the divorce, including their two mansions and his fleet of luxury cars - and he later claimed he had to wash his clothes by hand as he couldn't afford to use his washing machine. In 2017, he told the Sunday Mirror: "I can't afford the money to continue to have any lawyer or barrister. I am in the house but I am scared.
![[Emmanuel Eboue says he lost a fortune to his ex-wife after their bitter divorce]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/even-property-revealed-8-million-941420268.jpg?strip=all&w=750)
