The divorce game

Once on Richard Karn's version of Family Feud, a squad of ex-husbands squared off against their ex-wives. Some bitterness was evident. Divorce doesn't look like a pleasant experience.

Ask the ex-Mrs. Steve Harvey, after she bashed the current Feud host. Mary Harvey recently slammed her comic ex-hubby for all sorts of matrimonial crimes and misdemeanors. Now Steve Harvey has struck back with court documents that indicate he paid the lady a bunch of money, gave her a house or three, and amicably agreed to a custody arrangement for their son.

But that back-and-forth looks almost routine compared to the strange case of the missing Wheel of Fortune winnings. Seems that a nasty divorce has put fifty grand of Wheel prize money in legal limbo. A split Canadian couple, Scott and Carrie Dole, is feuding (that word again) over who gets what after the ex-hubby won big on the big wheel.

Is the fifty grand community property? Is it anybody's property? As always, lawyers will decide. The grimmest humor from the story:

In October 2009, the Doles went to Culver City, Calif., to film the show. Coincidentally, the couple started arguing again, Scott Dole said, and on the day of filming, they didn’t speak at all. Scott Dole said he didn’t talk to Carrie until after he won the money, when she was congratulating him on the set. "It's pretty funny how money mends wounds," Scott said.

The picture shows a briefly happy Carrie and Scott on the Wheel set. Sigh.