--- title: Oil Executive Harold Hamm Offers Wife $974.8M Divorce Check description: Sue Ann Arnall reportedly rejected the check canonical: https://time.com/3658100/harold-hamm-divorce/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-07T18:35:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:32.767Z og:title: Oil Executive Harold Hamm Offers Wife $974.8M Divorce Check og:description: He's worth $18 billion. og:url: https://time.com/3658100/harold-hamm-divorce/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76b9acb5a74d4668/698778a1f887dc1ab3e8960d/harold-hamm.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Key Speakers At The Bloomberg Year Ahead 2015 Conference og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Oil Executive Harold Hamm Offers Wife $974.8M Divorce Check twitter:description: He's worth $18 billion. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76b9acb5a74d4668/698778a1f887dc1ab3e8960d/harold-hamm.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Oil Magnate's Wife Rejects $975 Million Divorce Check by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jan 7, 2015 6:35 PM UTC  Harold Hamm, chairman CEO and founder of Continental Resources Inc., speaks during a panel discussion at the Bloomberg Year Ahead: 2015 conference in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 14, 2014. Harold Hamm, chairman CEO and founder of Continental Resources Inc., speaks during a panel discussion at the Bloomberg Year Ahead: 2015 conference in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 14, 2014.Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jan 7, 2015 6:35 PM UTC Oil executive Harold Hamm offered his ex-wife a handwritten check for $974.8 million in order to settle their bitter divorce, but [Sue Ann Arnall rejected it](http://www.cnbc.com/id/102315179#). Hamm’s lawyer told [CNBC](http://www.cnbc.com/id/102315179#) on Tuesday that Arnall did not “want to risk the dismissal of her appeal” by accepting the full amount of what the oil magnate owed her according to a November divorce settlement. Arnall, who has taken her maiden name after the divorce, appealed a judge’s ruling to offer her nearly $1 billion in their divorce because it pales in comparison to the $18 billion fortune Hamm has amassed through oil drilling company Continental Resources . Hamm’s also appealed the settlement, saying $1 billion was far too high. \[[_CNBC_](http://www.cnbc.com/id/102315179#)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3658100/harold-hamm-divorce/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3658100/harold-hamm-divorce/"},"headline":"Oil Magnate's Wife Rejects $975 Million Divorce Check","datePublished":"2015-01-07T18:35:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:32.767Z","description":"He's worth $18 billion","url":"https://time.com/3658100/harold-hamm-divorce/","keywords":["Living","Marriage","Divorce","Business topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76b9acb5a74d4668/698778a1f887dc1ab3e8960d/harold-hamm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76b9acb5a74d4668/698778a1f887dc1ab3e8960d/harold-hamm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Key Speakers At The Bloomberg Year Ahead 2015 Conference","caption":"Key Speakers At The Bloomberg Year Ahead 2015 Conference","creditText":"Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3658100/harold-hamm-divorce/","name":"Oil Magnate's Wife Rejects $975 Million Divorce Check"}}]}] ```