Is the 5-year long muddled divorce trial over? Mayo Kawasaki and Kaya, a couple who had it both ways.

I hope we can use our divorce as a break and make a fresh start in our lives. I would like to tell Kaya that from now on we will both do our best in our future lives.”

Mayo Kawasaki (60) said with a fresh expression in response to a direct interview in the October 13-20 issue of this magazine.

On September 20, the Tokyo High Court ruled in the divorce case between Mayo and Kaya (61). The Tokyo High Court dismissed Kaya’s claim for alimony on the grounds of domestic violence and adultery by Mayo, and ordered her to pay 66 million yen in property division to Mayo and to bear the legal costs. Following the February 2008 ruling by the family court, which granted the divorce and rejected Kaya’s demand for alimony, Mayo “won” in the second round as well.

Kaya’s side can appeal to the Supreme Court, but it is unlikely to be approved. The five-year battle that began in October 2006, when Mayo filed a lawsuit for divorce and Kaya countersued for 20 million yen in alimony, finally appears to be coming to an end.

The two were married in 1990. When Mayo’s affair with Yuki Saito (57) was scooped in 1993, Kaya’s appearance at Mayo’s press conference, standing with her arms folded behind the press, became the talk of the town, and she broke out as the “devil’s wife” character. Since then, she has been a regular on “Laugh It Up! (Fuji Television Network) as a regular. However, repeated reports of Mayo’s “unfaithfulness” after that led to whispers of a separation from around 2000.

Their separation was revealed in a report in the March 23, 2012 issue of this magazine. Mayo, who was appearing on stage at the time, was having drinks at a bar one night with several acquaintances until 2 am. As soon as they left the bar, Asayo got into a cab with a beautiful woman in her 30s who was one of the members of the group, and returned to a certain apartment. Three days later, he went to the same apartment with another beautiful woman. This was the “home” that Mayo lived in apart from Kaya’s house.

When we went to Kaya’s house to inquire about this matter, we saw a black man frequently going in and out of her house day and night. He took out the trash early in the morning and walked Kaya’s dog, giving the impression that he was living with her.

When we directly interviewed Kaya, she was silent about Mayo’s relationships with women, but when asked about her own alleged infidelity, she laughed and said, “A-ha, it’s not like that! It’s not like that,” she laughed. The man was an Ethiopian who owned a restaurant nearby and was a family friend.