Kim Kardashian: a marriage in numbers

It is delightfully apt that it has been announced on Halloween, the festival of the undead, that the 72-day marriage of reality TV avatar Kim Kardashian and someone whose name I've already forgotten but also began with the obligatory K has come to a totally surprising end . Really, when a woman who has sold her life and soul to the E! channel and her rent-a-husband can't make it work when cameras are filming them 24 hours a day, who can? But let's try to save ourselves from plunging into an emotional and spiritual oblivion by focusing on the facts of the formerly happy kouple. Ladies and gentlemen, Kim & Someone-Beginning-with-a-K's marriage (it's Kris), by numbers: • How many months K & K knew each other before getting engaged: 6 • How many months they were engaged: 3 • How much Kim made from the wedding thanks to magazine deals, etc: $17.9m • How much she therefore made per hour of the 72-day marrige, as calculated by New York Times' investigative journalist Don van Natta Jr: $10,358.80 • The current minimum wage in California: $8 an hour • How many hours the E! special of their wedding lasted: 4 • How many months E! spent promoting the wedding, daily: 3 • How many months they were actually married: 2½ • Kim & K's wedding cost: $10m • Donald Trump's last wedding: $1m • Price tag on one vase on K & K's wedding list: $7,500 • How much the wedding cake cost: $6,000 • How many Vera Wang wedding dresses Kim had for the wedding: 3 • How much each wedding dress cost: $20,000 • How much her mother Kris spent on a face lift for the wedding: $50,000