{"id":41475,"date":"2025-12-31T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=41475"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:33:48","slug":"the-real-reason-hilary-musser-split-from-billionaire-husband-before-members-only-palm-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/31\/the-real-reason-hilary-musser-split-from-billionaire-husband-before-members-only-palm-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"The real reason Hilary Musser split from billionaire husband before Members Only: Palm Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/30\/did-hilary-ever-sell-her-waterfront-18000-square-foot-home-on-members-only-palm-beach\/\">Hilary Musser<\/a> is no longer married to billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/29\/this-is-how-rich-members-only-palm-beachs-hilary-musser-is-and-how-she-made-her-millions\/\">Pete Musser<\/a>, but there&#8217;s a shocking reason for why she left him all those years ago. She&#8217;s had five marriages, as we all found out on <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/15\/simon-cowell-is-back-with-the-next-act-on-netflix-but-what-happened-to-the-x-factor\/\">Netflix<\/a>&#8216;s new show <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/31\/shes-like-royalty-so-who-actually-is-suebelle-robbins-on-members-only-palm-beach\/\">Members Only: Palm Beach<\/a>, including a split from Pete in April 2005.<\/p>\n<p>She claims she married him a month after his financial troubles began, but in April 2005, they separated. That&#8217;s when Hilary left town, her son in tow, to begin a new life in Palm Beach, where her total value of closed sales is believed to be $61.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did Hilary, who was Pete&#8217;s second wife, begin dating him? Well, she had a liver tumour at the time, and when Pete revealed his true feelings for her, she claims she &#8220;ran away.&#8221; She told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2007\/08\/09\/the-pete-principle\/\">Philadelphia Magazine<\/a>: \u201cI didn\u2019t really think of Pete as someone I would date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DJ7giqRSngq\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DJ7giqRSngq\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Class of Palm Beach (@classofpalmbeach)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\u00a0Revealing they were friends for two years before they got together, Hilary said: &#8220;Then I got very sick and almost died; I had a liver tumour. Shortly before that, he told me how he felt about me, and I sort of ran away. It didn\u2019t matter if I was 29 and he was 67 or 68.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that\u2019s how we started. Everybody thought I was just some young girl fascinated by his stature and money, but I fell in love with him,&#8221; she added. However, that happy marriage eventually came to an end, after Pete lost nearly all his fortune following the dot com crash.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2000, Hilary claims Pete lost all of his money and was left with $40 million in debt. She married him a month later, with her telling Reality Shrine that she did not marry him when he was a billionaire, but rather when that title was no longer true.<\/p>\n<p>During the dot com boom around 2000, Peter had a large stake in Safeguard Scientifics and was worth over $1 billion. However, after the crash he lost almost everything and sadly had to sell a lot of his assets in order to repay his debts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only reason we split up is because Pete is a bit of a ladies\u2019 man,\u201d she revealed. &#8220;It\u2019s not like I chose to split up with him when he was on his way up or down. I didn\u2019t really plan that. 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