re: Largest student loan debt you have ever heard...

Friend of mine had $150k and his newly wed wife was in $500k after medical school. Together they were $650k+. He had a very nice .com boom IT job and they crushed the debt in just a few years. At the same time they renovated a historic house and had a kid.

The kicker of the story is that they were true swingers and had open relationship since dating in college. I told him he was an idiot for keeping the lifestyle going after growing into professionals and he needed to grow up. The month they paid off her student loan, she blind sided him with divorce. She had all the evidence against him due to the lifestyle and she hid her involvement. She got custody of their 1 child, got the renovated historic house, and no liability for any debt. Two years removed from the divorce and she is debt free, making $800k /yr, and lives in historic house probably worth $1M.