In Georges defense it sounds like a big dick move on her part.
She didn't marry him for the money because he had none at the time.
That's the straw woman of gold diggers, maybe she saw him as a good bet, a riser up and comer, a good 'horse' to hitch her wagon onto.
“She was a knockout,” filmmaker John Milius recalled. “We all wondered how little George got this great looking girl.
Maybe she didn't start as a gold digger, but her consider her exaggerated explanation of what led to the split.
“I felt that we had paid our dues, fought our battles, worked eight days a week, twenty-five hours a day,” she said.
Sounds a bit too self selfing. The fact he seems to only have adopted and never sired a child seems a far more likely complication, for finally rupturing their marriage.
“I wanted to stop and smell the flowers. I wanted joy in my life. And George just didn’t. He was very emotionally blocked, incapable of sharing feelings. He wanted to stay on that workaholic track. The empire builder, the dynamo. And I couldn’t see myself living that way for the rest of my life.
So she shacks up with the carpenter (like Eastwood or Harrison?). I wonder how long they lasted. I bet not long after she got the alimony.
“I felt we were partners, partners in the ranch, partners in our home, and we did these films together. I wasn’t a fifty per cent partner, but I felt I had something to bring to the table. I was the more emotional person who came from the heart, and George was the more intellectual and visual, and I thought that provided a nice balance.
Of course his methodist upbringing would have nothing to do with that
“When we were finishing Jedi, George told me he thought I was a pretty good editor. In the sixteen years of our being together I think that was the only time he complimented me.”
Yeah, he never complimented her once while courting? and he's likely to when on RoTJ when their marriage was in trouble or the rocks? So she deserved a fair 'balance'.
About $50 million (£35 million) in the divorce.
Most people would be set for live. Considerations that put
“But George would never acknowledge that to me. I think he resented my criticisms, felt that all I ever did was put him down. In his mind, I always stayed the stupid Valley girl. He never felt I had any talent, he never felt I was very smart and he never gave me much credit.
into some perspective. The article source of these quotes summarizes it well
her role has been overstated — a common ‘urban myth’... that she single-handedly rescued the original film in the editing room, when in fact she worked as coeditor with Chew and Hirsch — there’s no denying the devastating effect the divorce had on Lucas.