The easy-rocking star has waved good-bye to marriage No 3 and hello to a reported US$46,68 million divorce settlement which, if accurate, shapes up to be the biggest ever celeb payout in British legal history, trumping even the astronomical amount Heather Mills received - said to be US$45,37 million - from Paul McCartney earlier this year.

Collins (57) and Orianne Cevey (35) were married for seven years before separating in 2006.

They have two children together, sons Nicolas (8) and Matthew (4).

It isn't the first time relationship woes have caused a dip in the Genesis frontman's fortunes, with Britain's Daily Telegraph even claiming that divorce settlements have eaten into as much as one-third of his estimated US$280 million net worth, nearly US$84 million going to his ex-wives.

After taking advantage of technological advances and infamously dumping wife No 2, Jill Tavelman, by fax back in 1994, he was forced to pay US$34 million.

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