How Cheryl and Ashley Cole will separate their �35m sovereignty

While Ashley Cole is receiving physio treatment for an ankle injury in a French bolthole, estranged wife Cheryl is being comforted by friends, bandmates and her mother. While it is believed she has not yet spoken to lawyer, speculation is rife about how much of the 82,000-a-week footballer"s wealth she might go after if she decides to turn the separation into a full-blown divorce. Here our team assesses how the Coles might split their fortune and prized possessions...

THE PROPERTY

The Coles" principal home, which is jointly owned, is a 4millionproperty on a private estate in Surrey, boasting sixbedrooms and a cinema.

Ashley has been ordered to go, leaving Cheryl there with hermother, Joan, who moved in during Cheryl"s stints as a judge on the XFactor - to make sure her daughter ate properly.

Cheryl wanted to move out when her marriage hit choppy watersin 2008, after Ashley was accused of sleeping with hairdresser AimeeWalton. Although she relented, she still lacks any sentimentalattachment to the home or the area.

Cheryl"s wedding ring set Ashley back 150,000

GIFTS TO HIM

Ashley has a Stephen Websterdiamond earring, a wedding gift from Cheryl, which cost 85,000. Healso has a diamond-studded Cartier Santos 100 watch worth 25,000. Heowns a Franck Muller gold watch, worth 85,000, and has had a Rolex,worth 25,000.

OUR PREDICTION: 195,000 for Ashley

GIFTS TO HER

Cheryl has two diamond ringswhich she will doubtless hang on to. Her heart-shaped diamond weddingring is worth 150,000 and the square-cut yellow diamond ring, which hegave her after the Aimee Walton disaster, is worth around 160,000.

Cheryl also has a Cartier Santos 100 watch, again studded withdiamonds, which is worth 20,000, plus a fancy Hublot Big BangCappuccino watch, which Ashley gave her for her birthday in summer 2008and is worth 35,000.

She has many other gifts, such as the 36,000 Hypoxi exercisebike given to her by Harrods and which she has not used for a couple ofyears.

She has a close relationship with the jewellers de Grisogono,who gave her a pair of stunning 70,000 diamond drop earrings which shewore to the X Factor finals.

OUR PREDICTION: At least 600,000 for Cheryl

CARS

Ashley is serving a driving ban, but has a mind-boggling collectionof cars, all of which he will keep. His favourite is a LamborghiniGallardo: that"s the one in which he was caught speeding in November2008. It"s worth around 115,000. He also has a Bentley, worth around200,000.

Ashley driving his 200,000 Bentley last year

Ashley also owns a 115,000 Lamborghini Gallardo

In addition, there are two Range Rovers worth 80,000 apiece.Ashley also used to have a 270,000 Lamborghini Murcielago, but soldit, along with his Aston Martin, worth 200,000.

Ashley bought Cheryl a Bentley for their first weddinganniversary, but she said the 150,000 car was "too much" so he got hersome Cartier jewellery instead.

OUR PREDICTION: 75,000 for Ashley; 80,000 for Cheryl

HIS EARNINGS

Cole is on 120,000 a week at Chelsea, giving him anannual salary of 6.24 million a year. His career earnings areestimated at more than 30 million, and Cheryl was advised during theirfirst marital blip that she could get up to 4 million from him.

Ashley earns 120,000 a week as defender for Chelsea

This she rejected, because at the time she wanted to staymarried, and also she felt it would be wrong to take his money. As shesaid: "I work hard for my money. I don"t ask Ashley for a penny."

His wealth has been estimated at 14 million, but it"sprobably closer to 20 million. He received a 250,000 advance for hisbook, My Defence, which sold less than 10,000 copies.

OUR PREDICTION: 19m - his earnings so far - for Ashley

HER EARNINGS

Cheryl is under contract to do the X Factor for 1.75 million overtwo years and earns 1.5 million a year with Girls Aloud.

Cheryl will receive 1.75 million for being a judge on The X Factor over the next two years

Then there isthe 500,000 for promoting L"Oreal. And she may earn as much as 1million more from her recently launched solo career. It"s likely Ashleywill not see a penny of this.

OUR PREDICTION: 9m - her earnings so far - for Cheryl

Dumped: Cole"s three-and-a-half-year marriage is now over

JOINT EARNINGS

OK! magazine paid 1.5 million for the wedding pictures andthe story of their engagement. Soon after the wedding, Cheryl persuadedAshley they could make an easy 200,000 for posing in matching whiteoutfits to promote the Lottery. The disastrous press this attractedseems to have scared them off any further joint commercial deals.

OUR PREDICTION: It"s probably all spent

THE "PIMPED" TRUCK

Cheryl gave Ashley a mini Hummer truck worth 14,000 to potteraround the garden in - after hearing his teammate John Terry ravingabout his.

The 14,000 mini Hummer Cheryl bought for Ashley and had customised

Cheryl with one of her beloved chihuahuas

Cheryl had it "pimped" with gold hubcaps and black leatherupholstery and decorated with CC and AC initials - picked out inSwarovski crystals on the headrests, for a further 5,000. You can"tsee either of them being keen to hang onto this, can you?

OUR PREDICTION: Look out for it on eBay

FOUR-LEGGED FRIENDS

Coco and Buster the Chihuahuas are Cheryl"s great loves - she is asentimental "mummy" to them and used to call home so that she couldchat to them on the phone. But Ashley never liked the way she wouldallow them to sleep in the bedroom, and once complained that they gotin the way of marital intimacy.

OUR PREDICTION: Two dogs for Cheryl

THE FINAL VERDICT:CHERYL GETS 11.68M, ASHLEY GETS 22.22M