Kevin Costner’s divorce from second spouse Christine is getting messier by the minute.
Details about the normally non-public actor and director’s private life and funds are being revealed amid the bitter break up. According to courtroom documents obtained by Yahoo, the Yellowstone star’s estranged spouse says he is value “at least $400,000,000,” so she’s preventing the phrases of their 2004 prenuptial settlement, which has given her a $1 million-plus payout since the break up. Christine, 49, is in search of $248K a month in youngster assist alone from Kevin, 68, to start out. She additionally claims he “disregarded” her enter by breaking the information of the divorce to their three youngsters with out her throughout a “10-minute Zoom call” house.
Christine — who filed for divorce on May 1 after 18 years of marriage, itemizing the separation date at April 11 — mentioned in a declaration filed June 16 that she was “concerned” the youngsters would discover out about the divorce earlier than they might inform them. She mentioned it was essential to her to inform the children in particular person collectively. Christine claimed she instructed Kevin this and shared articles about “the importance of talking to the children as a united front.” However, she claimed that Kevin “disregarded my proposal to do what I felt was right based on research and my relationship with the children. Instead, he insisted that he had the right to tell them that we were getting divorced ‘first’ and tell them privately ‘without me present.'”
Christine mentioned, “From his hotel room in Las Vegas, Kevin told our three children” Cayden Wyatt, 16, Hayes Logan, 14, and Grace Avery, 13, “that we were getting divorced over a 10-minute Zoom call without me present. I am still confused by his motivation to do this via a very short Zoom session, especially since he was planning on being home five days later. He also could have easily come home from Las Vegas to have the conversation in person.”
Additional details from the courtroom documents…
Christine suggests she’ll be difficult their prenup
Christine, who was a purse designer, shouldn’t be employed and has “no personal income,” she says. Her belongings embody a checking account with “less than $50,000” from earlier than their marriage and an account Kevin arrange for her after they had been married, per their prenup. Kevin put two funds of $100,000 into the account (after they married and on their first marriage ceremony anniversary), per the prenup, and it is grown in financial savings to $450,000. After she filed for divorce, he deposited $1 million into the account, additionally per their prenup, so she will be able to transfer out of the properties he owned going into the marriage. However, she says she will not contact that cash as a result of she thinks if she does, Kevin “can argue that I’ve waived my right to challenge the Premarital Agreement. I cannot make this concession” and “do not accept payment” as she apparently seeks a bigger payout.
She desires $248K per thirty days in youngster assist
Christine says her aim post-split is to “set up a suitable separate household that is at least somewhat commensurate with the children’s accustomed lifestyle.” To achieve this, she wants the $248K in assist and to have Kevin pay 100% of the youngsters’s non-public faculty tuition, charges for his or her extracurricular actions and all well being care bills (together with medical, dental, therapeutic and orthodontic).
“I understand that guideline child support based on Kevin’s income in 2022 would be $152,681 per month, she acknowledges. However, “the quantity wanted to take care of the youngsters’s present life-style is $332,264 per thirty days, which is 60% of what our household spent. This could look like so much, however that is primarily based on precise figures” from their 2022 income and expenses.
She also wants $500,000 in legal fees by Aug. 1
Due their vast differences in resources, she requests that Kevin pay an additional $350,000 in attorney’s fees and $150,000 in forensic costs to her attorney before August 1.
She won’t move out until Kevin commits to paying “acceptable” child support
While he has said their prenup states she must move out of his pre-marital property within 30 days of a divorce filing (with him giving her $1 million toward housing), and she claims to be “been keen to maneuver out,” she won’t go until Kevin is “keen to decide to paying an acceptable quantity of kid assist.” She said while Kevin has “continued to pay all of our bills since separation” — including $95,000 in lawyer and accounting fees — she claims he’s “executed numerous issues to make it tougher for me to pay for issues, and there’s no assure he’ll proceed to pay these bills going ahead till an settlement is in place.”
She estimates Kevin to be worth $400 million
The Academy Award winner’s finances are detailed and — no surprise — he is very, very rich. “Although we’ve not executed formal discovery, we consider that Mr. Costner’s web value is in extra of $400,000,000 and his latest reported earnings is in extra of $19,000,000 per yr,” her attorneys state. It lists Kevin’s “common month-to-month money movement” as $1,536,808.
He made $19,517,064.32 in 2022
Kevin’s accountant provided his income for last year. Highlights include his Tig Films — behind projects including Dances with Wolves, Wyatt Earp and The Bodyguard — pulling in $10.2 million. Their 160-acre Aspen property, where the couple married, brought in $2,312,458, while a guest house on the Beach Club compound that they rented — to a tenant who denied being the “different man” just days ago — paid them $503,000. Meanwhile, his stocks put $5,647,000 in their bank account and an unspecified “inheritance” gave them $454,803. She notes in her declaration that “most of our houses are owned with none debt.” (Minus the property he mortgaged to fund his film project Horizon: An American Saga.)
Christine notes, “I understand that our life-style is extraordinary. I respect how very blessed we’re to stay this fashion. It’s essential to not solely to offer a heat and cozy house for our youngsters however to additionally educate them household values and gratitude.”
Their expenses in 2022 were $6,645,285
They own multiple luxury properties and shell out millions to maintain them. Their Aspen property alone costs $1,964,294 in upkeep. (They pay a rancher $91,999, $21,807 for spa services and $19,576.72 for “cleansing.”) The Beach Club compound in Carpinteria, Calif., cost $1,408,180. (Of that, $448,446 was paid in gardening costs, $12,780 in private security within the gated community and $10,800 for pool maintenance.)
They have a house manager, a person who assists with grocery shopping and meal preparation, a housekeeper who assists with cleaning and laundry. They’re also members at “a number of” country clubs.
“In addition … our household travels a number of instances per yr … [to] trip in the Caribbean and Hawaii, and journey to Aspen a number of instances per yr, normally throughout the winter and summer season” with family and friends joining them. It’s noted their private plane costs are “apparently paid by different entities managed by Kevin.”
Their family home is worth an estimated $100 million
Kevin owned their Beach Club Road compound in Carpinteria, Calif., prior to them marrying, but it has expanded over the years. The compound is now composed of three homes and two additional lots, along the water. The main house is approximately 5,000 square feet with “4 bedrooms, an infinity pool overlooking the seashore and ocean, a subterranean artwork room and surf storage.” There’s a guest house with a gym, basketball court, pergola for dining, an outdoor “front room,” a fire-pit and chicken coop. There’s another guest house that Kevin uses for film editing, which the recently rented it for $65K per month to real estate investor Daniel Starr (who denied having an affair with Christine). The compound also boasts two additional lots they use just for outdoor space.
“Given the distinctive location and attributes of our compound, the mixed worth of our 5 properties is probably going in extra of $100 million,” she writes in her declaration.
They have a second waterfront Carpinteria property worth “roughly $50M to $80M”
They also own a 17-acre property half a mile down the beach, which they bought and planned to build a dream home on but later changed their mind, deciding to renovating the beach compound instead. They thought about selling it a few years ago, but changed their minds. Costner said recently said he mortgaged the ranch for his latest film project.
She says Kevin was once offered $250 million for their Aspen property
The Aspen estate, which Kevin also owned before they were married, is “actually distinctive,” Christine says. It’s 10 minutes from the town center but “surrounded by a nationwide forest that can’t be developed.” The property has several homes and two lakes, and they rent it “for $250,000 per week throughout the excessive season.” She said they have a fleet of “a dozen ATVs and snowmobiles” for the kids to ride.
Christine says she met Kevin “on the golf course at the Alisal Ranch after I was 18”
That was around 1992, when he was still married to his first wife, college sweetheart Cindy, with whom he shares three children. He was divorced in 1994 — amid rumors of infidelity while making Waterworld, resulting in a reported $80 million payout to his ex — and then he had a child with Bridget Rooney in 1996. Six years after they first met, Christine said she and the Tin Cup star played “our first sport of golf … began courting shortly thereafter.” They were together for 24 years.
In his own declaration, Kevin says that he established a prenup because after his divorce from Cindy, he was pushed out of their home and felt displaced. So it was important to add a clause stating she would have to leave their home 30 days after a divorce filing.
She says she raised the kids and “inspired” Kevin to “stay his goals”
Christine says she “traveled the world in non-public planes, stayed in luxurious motels and personal houses” with the “good-looking” and “charming” movie star when they got together. While he’s “typically on location for about 4 months at a time all through the yr,” she’s made it her priority “to concentrate on elevating our household.” She says the “youngsters are very hooked up to me and are accustomed to my hands-on involvement of their every day lives.” She drives them places, cooks, helps with homework, signs them up for extracurricular activities, surfs and plays board games with them. However, she notes that it’s “essential for our youngsters to remain linked with their dad” and she’s “agreed to a joint custody parenting association.”
She goes on to say she’s “inspired Kevin to put on many hats and stay his goals, even when that meant spending time away from our household.” In addition to acting and direction, that includes touring with his band and starting other business ventures. “I by no means questioned the time or dedication it took for him to do what he cherished,” she writes.
She accuses Kevin of public attacks
“I’ve prevented being public about the causes for our divorce,” she wrote. However, she wants it to be clear that, “I didn’t strain Kevin to depart the Yellowstone present,” amid his departure ahead of the final episodes of the Paramount series. “Kevin’s public assaults on me are dangerous for our household. I consider they’re meant to strain me to maneuver out with out a short-term youngster assist settlement in place.”
There is already a trial date set in Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara starting on Nov. 27. The very subsequent step is a case administration convention on July 5 to take a look at the validity and enforceability of the prenup.
The documents notice that Kevin, who returns to California this month after making the second a part of Horizon in Utah, has a long-planned trip scheduled with the couple’s children in British Columbia in mid-July.
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