I am not a wealth envy-kinda guy, and I generally have no problem with people going after money… but yikes:
Kevin Costner’s estranged wife Christine Baumgartner is awarded $129,000 per month child support – just HALF the amount she demanded – amid VERY ugly divorce war
Do they have a dozen kids that need supporting? Indeed not:
The former couple share three children: sons Cayden, 16; and Hayes, 14; along with their younger daughter Grace, 13.
They will also be splitting expenses down the middle for the kids’ pricey private school tuition, as well as their extracurricular activities, which includes sports.
Baseball gloves from Gucci, tennis shoes from Jimmy Choo, Tiffany reading lamps, leather-bound autographed first-edition school text books, diamond-encrusted tennis racquets from Fabergé: I’m amazed that the amount was pushed down to a lousy $129k per month from the $500k / month (!) she’d been seeking.
Here’s what gets in my craw. If this gold-digging whore (thank you, Mr. William Burr) had been the wife who helped ol’ Kevin become this movie star, I might — might — be a little more sympathetic towards her “needs”. But no: Costner ditched his first wife (who had supported him through the lean years before stardom) and went on to marry Wife #2, this tree-gardener woman (after shagging women of the Elle McPherson ilk).
So in a sense, I guess he got what was coming to him, eventually.
I’m just astonished that he could actually afford to pay $129k per month, but then again he’s a big Hollywood star. (And just to be clear, I actually like him as an actor, and know quite a bit about his background because my late wife Connie was very briefly his agent, back in her Hollywood days.)
The sums of money just make my head spin.
I think that Bill Burr nailed it with his “Epidemic of gold digging whores” bit.
If you’re looking for a payday, Kevin spacey might have room for you on his dance card
JQ
He’s a couple weeks older than me and I used to like him, and still like some of his movies. But he’s turned into a real dikhed. Voted for obama, etc., etc. So fuk him ded. I just don’t care.
Look for Costner to take the baton from Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Nick Cage, etc. and start starring in all sorts of shit action B movies, in many cases just a 5 minute walk-on cameo, but enough to get his picture on the promo material, in the very near future.
Hell, even Harrison Ford is willing to shit on his legacy for enough money, no reason Costner shouldn’t do likewise.
That said, Nick Cage in the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was actually enjoyable.
I’m not really following the cash flows here. So, he’s splitting the costs of the children 50-50. I’m not familiar with her being any — ANY variety of big, well-paid Hollywood star. Is she able to afford this 50-50 split because of his “child support”?
He pays his share out of one pocket and her share out of another. If he were deemed responsible for all these expenditures so that he actually wrote the individual checks instead of a single unaccountable, not-to-be itemized check to the GDW. Give him custody and financial responsibility and he would think twice about divorce, as would his GDW Wife who wouldn’t get her “babies” and a magic court-enforced ATM to enjoy her custody of them.
I very much enjoyed Yellowstone until the most recent season, which might just as well have been on the Hallmark channel. I tapped out after 3 or 4 episodes.
I was struck by the tenderness surrounding the death of the Emmett Walsh character, and when John Dutton gave the news to the new widow:
Ella Walsh: How?
John Dutton: Like a cowboy should. Head resting against the saddle, staring at the stars. His eyes closed. He didn’t open them.