Author Saul dumping wife; acquiring old road house of ill-repute (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

BELLO W (reference Saul BELLOW [1915 – 2005], American author) excluding (dumping) W (wife – Bellow was divorced 4 times) containing (acquiring) ( O [old] + RD [road])