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Top 10 Celebrity Breakups of 2006

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Paul McCartney and Heather Mills


Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills officially separated in May and soon after started talking divorce. Legal experts speculated that Heather could walk away with a big chunk of the estimated $1.5 billion empire. Could that be what sparked all the dirty press?

Reports of Heather being a gold-digger as well as graphic photos surfaced of her with one London paper claiming that she spent the better part of her 20's working as a prostitute. Paul, 63, and Heather, 38, duked it out through the media and it kept getting uglier.

Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong


Grammy award winning Sheryl Crow and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong seemed like the perfect couple. Sheryl supported Lance through his final Tour de France win and he supported her music career. After months of speculation, Sheryl and Lance announced in a joint statement on February 3 that they had called off the engagement.

This would have been Sheryl's first marriage and his second. Lance split from his gorgeous wife Kristin in 2003 after 5 years of marriage and they share custody of Luke, 6, and twins Isabelle and Grace, 4.

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