Kevin Costner’s divorce from second spouse Christine is getting messier by the minute.
Particulars in regards to the often personal actor and director’s private life and funds are being revealed amid the bitter break up. In line with courtroom paperwork obtained by Yahoo, the Yellowstone star’s estranged spouse says he is price “at the very least $400,000,000,” so she’s combating the phrases of their 2004 prenuptial settlement, which has given her a $1 million-plus payout because the break up. Christine, 49, is looking for $248K a month in baby assist alone from Kevin, 68, to begin. She additionally claims he “disregarded” her enter by breaking the information of the divorce to their three kids with out her throughout a “10-minute Zoom name” house.
Christine — who filed for divorce on Could 1 after 18 years of marriage, itemizing the separation date at April 11 — stated in a declaration filed June 16 that she was “involved” the kids would discover out in regards to the divorce earlier than they may inform them. She stated it was necessary to her to inform the children in particular person collectively. Christine claimed she informed Kevin this and shared articles about “the significance of speaking to the kids as a united entrance.” Nevertheless, she claimed that Kevin “disregarded my proposal to do what I felt was proper primarily based on analysis and my relationship with the kids. As an alternative, he insisted that he had the correct to inform them that we had been getting divorced ‘first’ and inform them privately ‘with out me current.'”
Christine stated, “From his resort room in Las Vegas, Kevin informed our three kids” Cayden Wyatt, 16, Hayes Logan, 14, and Grace Avery, 13, “that we had been getting divorced over a 10-minute Zoom name with out me current. I’m nonetheless confused by his motivation to do that through a really brief Zoom session, particularly since he was planning on being house 5 days later. He additionally might have simply come house from Las Vegas to have the dialog in particular person.”
Further particulars from the courtroom paperwork…
Christine suggests she’ll be difficult their prenup
Christine, who was a purse designer, is just not employed and has “no private revenue,” she says. Her property embody a checking account with “lower 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 transfer out of the properties he owned going into the wedding. Nevertheless, 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 proper to problem the Premarital Settlement. I can’t make this concession” and “don’t settle for fee” as she apparently seeks a bigger payout.
She desires $248K per 30 days in baby assist
Christine says her objective post-split is to “arrange an appropriate separate family that’s at the very least considerably commensurate with the kids’s accustomed life-style.” To take action, she wants the $248K in assist and to have Kevin pay 100% of the kids’s personal faculty tuition, charges for his or her extracurricular actions and all well being care bills (together with medical, dental, therapeutic and orthodontic).
“I perceive that guideline baby assist primarily based on Kevin’s revenue in 2022 could be $152,681 per 30 days, she acknowledges. Nevertheless, “the quantity wanted to keep up the kids’s present life-style is $332,264 per 30 days, which is 60% of what our household spent. This will likely seem to be so much, however that is primarily based on precise figures” from their 2022 revenue and bills.
She additionally desires $500,000 in authorized charges by Aug. 1
Due their huge variations in sources, she requests that Kevin pay an extra $350,000 in lawyer’s charges and $150,000 in forensic prices to her lawyer earlier than August 1.
She will not transfer out till Kevin commits to paying “applicable” baby assist
Whereas he has stated their prenup states she should transfer out of his pre-marital property inside 30 days of a divorce submitting (with him giving her $1 million towards housing), and he or she claims to be “been prepared to maneuver out,” she will not go till Kevin is “prepared to decide to paying an applicable quantity of kid assist.” She stated whereas Kevin has “continued to pay all of our bills since separation” — together with $95,000 in lawyer and accounting charges — she claims he is “accomplished quite a few issues to make it harder 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 price $400 million
The Academy Award winner’s funds are detailed and — no shock — he’s very, very wealthy. “Though we have now not accomplished formal discovery, we imagine that Mr. Costner’s internet price is in extra of $400,000,000 and his current reported revenue is in extra of $19,000,000 per yr,” her attorneys state. It lists Kevin’s “common month-to-month money circulate” as $1,536,808.
He made $19,517,064.32 in 2022
Kevin’s accountant supplied his revenue for final yr. Highlights embody his Tig Movies — behind initiatives together with Dances with Wolves, Wyatt Earp and The Bodyguard — pulling in $10.2 million. Their 160-acre Aspen property, the place the couple married, introduced in $2,312,458, whereas a visitor home on the Seaside Membership compound that they rented — to a tenant who denied being the “different man” simply days in the past — paid them $503,000. In the meantime, his shares put $5,647,000 of their checking 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 movie mission Horizon: An American Saga.)
Christine notes, “I understand that our life-style is extraordinary. I admire how very blessed we’re to dwell this fashion. It’s necessary to not solely to offer a heat and cozy house for our kids however to additionally train them household values and gratitude.”
Their bills in 2022 had been $6,645,285
They personal a number of luxurious properties and shell out thousands and thousands to keep up them. Their Aspen property alone prices $1,964,294 in repairs. (They pay a rancher $91,999, $21,807 for spa companies and $19,576.72 for “cleansing.”) The Seaside Membership compound in Carpinteria, Calif., value $1,408,180. (Of that, $448,446 was paid in gardening prices, $12,780 in personal safety inside the gated group and $10,800 for pool upkeep.)
They’ve a home supervisor, an individual who assists with grocery procuring and meal preparation, a housekeeper who assists with cleansing and laundry. They’re additionally members at “a number of” nation golf equipment.
“As well as … our household travels a number of occasions per yr … [to] trip within the Caribbean and Hawaii, and journey to Aspen a number of occasions per yr, often throughout the winter and summer season” with household and pals becoming a member of them. It is famous their personal airplane prices are “apparently paid via different entities managed by Kevin.”
Their household house is price an estimated $100 million
Kevin owned their Seaside Membership Street compound in Carpinteria, Calif., previous to them marrying, nevertheless it has expanded through the years. The compound is now composed of three houses and two extra heaps, alongside the water. The principle home is roughly 5,000 sq. toes with “4 bedrooms, an infinity pool overlooking the seashore and ocean, a subterranean artwork room and surf storage.” There is a visitor home with a fitness center, basketball courtroom, pergola for eating, an out of doors “lounge,” a fire-pit and hen coop. There’s one other visitor home that Kevin makes use of for movie modifying, which the just lately rented it for $65K per 30 days to actual property investor Daniel Starr (who denied having an affair with Christine). The compound additionally boasts two extra heaps they use only for outside area.
“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’ve a second waterfront Carpinteria property price “roughly $50M to $80M”
In addition they personal a 17-acre property half a mile down the seashore, which they purchased and deliberate to construct a dream house on however later modified their thoughts, deciding to renovating the seashore compound as a substitute. They thought of promoting it a couple of years in the past, however modified their minds. Costner stated just lately stated he mortgaged the ranch for his newest movie mission.
She says Kevin was as soon as supplied $250 million for his or her Aspen property
The Aspen property, which Kevin additionally owned earlier than they had been married, is “really distinctive,” Christine says. It is 10 minutes from the city middle however “surrounded by a nationwide forest that can’t be developed.” The property has a number of houses and two lakes, and so they lease it “for $250,000 per week throughout the excessive season.” She stated they’ve a fleet of “a dozen ATVs and snowmobiles” for the children to journey.
Christine says she met Kevin “on the golf course on the Alisal Ranch after I was 18”
That was round 1992, when he was nonetheless married to his first spouse, faculty sweetheart Cindy, with whom he shares three kids. He was divorced in 1994 — amid rumors of infidelity whereas making Waterworld, leading to a reported $80 million payout to his ex — after which he had a toddler with Bridget Rooney in 1996. Six years after they first met, Christine stated she and the Tin Cup star performed “our first sport of golf … began courting shortly thereafter.” They had been collectively for twenty-four years.
In his personal declaration, Kevin says that he established a prenup as a result of after his divorce from Cindy, he was pushed out of their house and felt displaced. So it was necessary so as to add a clause stating she must go away their house 30 days after a divorce submitting.
She says she raised the children and “inspired” Kevin to “dwell his desires”
Christine says she “traveled the world in personal planes, stayed in luxurious lodges and personal houses” with the “good-looking” and “charming” film star after they obtained collectively. Whereas he is “typically on location for roughly 4 months at a time all year long,” she’s made it her precedence “to give attention to elevating our household.” She says the “kids are very connected to me and are accustomed to my hands-on involvement of their each day lives.” She drives them locations, cooks, helps with homework, indicators them up for extracurricular actions, surfs and performs board video games with them. Nevertheless, she notes that it is “necessary for our children to remain linked with their dad” and he or she’s “agreed to a joint custody parenting association.”
She goes on to say she’s “inspired Kevin to put on many hats and dwell his desires, even when that meant spending time away from our household.” Along with performing and route, that features touring along with his band and beginning different enterprise ventures. “I by no means questioned the time or dedication it took for him to do what he liked,” she writes.
She accuses Kevin of public assaults
“I’ve averted being public in regards to the causes for our divorce,” she wrote. Nevertheless, she desires it to be clear that, “I didn’t stress Kevin to go away the Yellowstone present,” amid his departure forward of the ultimate episodes of the Paramount sequence. “Kevin’s public assaults on me are dangerous for our household. I imagine they’re meant to stress me to maneuver out and not using a short-term baby assist settlement in place.”
There may be already a trial date set in Superior Courtroom of California, County of Santa Barbara starting on Nov. 27. The very subsequent step is a case administration convention on July 5 to have a look at the validity and enforceability of the prenup.
The paperwork be aware 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.
