Kevin Costner divorce

[Anonymous]

Well over $1 million cash going away money plus child support alone is going to be in access of $6 million cash tax free over the next 6 years. Since he's paying for all the kids' expenses, she can pocket all of it. 99.9999% of divorced moms would trade places with her.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kevin’s PR camp has found this thread.

Are you insane.

Thanks for confirming!

Yes, it is totally rational that Kevin Costner’s PR people are spending their time on a DC-based mommy message board. Of course that is a perfectly rational thought and not totally insane. 🙄

You’re a former soccer forum poster, aren’t you? I remember the misogyny of “mommy message board.” You obviously also don’t know how PR firms work. It’s entirely within the realm of possibility that someone in his camp is monitoring this and every other popular social media outlet for mention of him.

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Anonymous wrote:The articles say he was planning to file if she hadn’t done it first. Would she have gotten more if she had not tried to leave? I would never have signed that prenup. I would have signed A prenup, but not that one.

Signed,
SAHM who hasn’t worked in 16 years (with no prenup thankfully)

I don’t think the full prenup has been released. She’s challenging what she’s eligible for which may be based on specific terms.

He's claiming he owes her $1.3 or $1.4M plus the child support and monthly amount towards a rental home. I haven't read anything that says how long the rental allowance will go. Until the youngest child turns 18? Then what? Having 20 years of marriage and no meaningful assets to show for it is pretty terrible. Something in the prenup should have been tied to the length of the marriage, and which person initiated the divorce. Seems to me like she played her cards all wrong here - will be interesting to see what happens.

She could have amassed her own assets and she will have rights to any of the assets that she contributed to amassing during the marriage. They had a nanny and multiple household staff so it wasn't like she couldn't work. This prenup is very similar to Kelly Clarksons and hers was upheld by the court. She only needed to pay her exhusband 1.3 million (a pittance compared to her income of 1.9 million a month), and she evicted him from the property he was living in, and she kept all the houses and assets gained by her work during the marriage! She did have to pay him alimony of 100K a month for 18 months for him to have time to establish his own financial independence, and she is paying him 46K a month in child support so it isn't like he will struggle - same as Costner's wife.

But the monthly amounts are not forever. Then what? Is she expected to save those amounts rather than spend them? Maybe. I'm not disagreeing that the prenup could hold. I just don't understand why she and Brandon Blackstock signed this rubbish. Lots of women are SAHM's for 20+ years and they have all the rights to an equal share of what was earned during the marriage by the working spouse. Why would someone agree to $1.3M?? That wasn't even that much 20 years ago! Were they drugged? I just don't get it.

In Christine's case, I believe Kevin is providing a house as well so she has minimal expenses she needs to cover. Her monthly amounts should go a long ways given her housing and all child related costs are covered (many times over). If she gets a job that covers the basics for herself and invests / spends the monthly amount wisely - she should be able to live quite nicely. Her lifestyle will take a hit for sure but that is the reality of divorce for many. I am sure they sign to show they are in it for love and not for the money. Christine has gotten to live a luxurious lifestyle of excess for almost 20 years that has been entirely provided for her, spending as she wished from the sounds of it. That is a massive benefit that most people don't get through marriage. Twenty years of being handed life on a plate and living like the rich and famous based solely on the work and effort of another is a pretty good ride.

He is not providing a house. He is providing a monthly rental allowance, which presumably will end at some point. The youngest child is what, 13? I'm guessing these monthly amounts will last 5 years at best. I'm not saying she hasn't lived a great life, but I don't think she has accumulated any assets and it sounds to me like she is about to be up a creek with no paddle.

It was kind of her choice to throw away her paddle and let Kevin paddle for the entirely of the marriage. She got to relax in the most luxurious of canoes just drifting through a life provided for her with a team of people to do all the work that a typical non working parent might do. She has years while still provided for to start to live life as an adult with adult responsibilities. Most of us don't get free rides, we take on responsibilities as adults do. She can do the same and with a lot more help and money than most of us have.

Nice fiction but this is not a creative writing forum. You don't know anything about their daily life. Or do you work for their household something?

It was in the court documents she filed! Not creative writing in the least. She says there are three people who support the children. They have a house manager who she says manages the logistics of all the children’s activities. A chef who does all the shopping and meal prep and a housekeeper who does cleaning and laundry etc. She basically says her role is to be available for her kids when they need her as Kevin travel approx 25% of the time, and that she occasionally drives them to school.

I don’t need to work for them to read what she filed!

WOW. A house manager who manages the kids logistics, a chef who shops and cooks, a housekeeper who cleans… what did she EVEN do in her free time? She did not have a job, never paid a bill, never made her own money. She sounds like a loser and a leech.

Sounds like she got used to living like a lazy queen and doesn't want the party to end. Now she'll be hard up to go sink her claws into another sucker.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kevin’s PR camp has found this thread.

Are you insane.

Thanks for confirming!

Yes, it is totally rational that Kevin Costner’s PR people are spending their time on a DC-based mommy message board. Of course that is a perfectly rational thought and not totally insane. 🙄

You’re a former soccer forum poster, aren’t you? I remember the misogyny of “mommy message board.” You obviously also don’t know how PR firms work. It’s entirely within the realm of possibility that someone in his camp is monitoring this and every other popular social media outlet for mention of him.

I don't think his PR are. But it seems hers are. He is a celeb, presumably he has fans. The ex wife is a nobody. And she looks really out of touch with her demands and attempts to smear him. A down payment on a house and 12 mortgage payments is not a small sum of money. Plus the million cash. Plus six figures a month child support. Plus Kevin pays all the expenses. There are maybe a literal handful of ex wives in the world who wouldn't trade places with her.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kevin’s PR camp has found this thread.

Are you insane.

Thanks for confirming!

Yes, it is totally rational that Kevin Costner’s PR people are spending their time on a DC-based mommy message board. Of course that is a perfectly rational thought and not totally insane. 🙄

You’re a former soccer forum poster, aren’t you? I remember the misogyny of “mommy message board.” You obviously also don’t know how PR firms work. It’s entirely within the realm of possibility that someone in his camp is monitoring this and every other popular social media outlet for mention of him.

I have professional experience with PR firms. You are delusional. Seriously, stopping showing yourself to be a fool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kevin’s PR camp has found this thread.

Are you insane.

Thanks for confirming!

Yes, it is totally rational that Kevin Costner’s PR people are spending their time on a DC-based mommy message board. Of course that is a perfectly rational thought and not totally insane. 🙄

You’re a former soccer forum poster, aren’t you? I remember the misogyny of “mommy message board.” You obviously also don’t know how PR firms work. It’s entirely within the realm of possibility that someone in his camp is monitoring this and every other popular social media outlet for mention of him.

I don't think his PR are. But it seems hers are. He is a celeb, presumably he has fans. The ex wife is a nobody. And she looks really out of touch with her demands and attempts to smear him. A down payment on a house and 12 mortgage payments is not a small sum of money. Plus the million cash. Plus six figures a month child support. Plus Kevin pays all the expenses. There are maybe a literal handful of ex wives in the world who wouldn't trade places with her.

Yeah, it makes more sense she’d hire the tacky low-rent PR firms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Kevin’s PR camp has found this thread.

Are you insane.

Thanks for confirming!

Yes, it is totally rational that Kevin Costner’s PR people are spending their time on a DC-based mommy message board. Of course that is a perfectly rational thought and not totally insane. 🙄

You’re a former soccer forum poster, aren’t you? I remember the misogyny of “mommy message board.” You obviously also don’t know how PR firms work. It’s entirely within the realm of possibility that someone in his camp is monitoring this and every other popular social media outlet for mention of him.

Glad you said this because I was questioning if I was crazy for thinking it. There is someone who is very trigger happy retorting to all the posts that shade Kevin Costner. Within minutes there's a retort, and usually its some kind of misogynistic rant that hates on stay at home moms in particular. I don't know if it's Costner's PR team or just some angry little man who's bored and monitoring this thread obsessively.

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Anonymous wrote:The articles say he was planning to file if she hadn’t done it first. Would she have gotten more if she had not tried to leave? I would never have signed that prenup. I would have signed A prenup, but not that one.

Signed,
SAHM who hasn’t worked in 16 years (with no prenup thankfully)

I don’t think the full prenup has been released. She’s challenging what she’s eligible for which may be based on specific terms.

He's claiming he owes her $1.3 or $1.4M plus the child support and monthly amount towards a rental home. I haven't read anything that says how long the rental allowance will go. Until the youngest child turns 18? Then what? Having 20 years of marriage and no meaningful assets to show for it is pretty terrible. Something in the prenup should have been tied to the length of the marriage, and which person initiated the divorce. Seems to me like she played her cards all wrong here - will be interesting to see what happens.

She could have amassed her own assets and she will have rights to any of the assets that she contributed to amassing during the marriage. They had a nanny and multiple household staff so it wasn't like she couldn't work. This prenup is very similar to Kelly Clarksons and hers was upheld by the court. She only needed to pay her exhusband 1.3 million (a pittance compared to her income of 1.9 million a month), and she evicted him from the property he was living in, and she kept all the houses and assets gained by her work during the marriage! She did have to pay him alimony of 100K a month for 18 months for him to have time to establish his own financial independence, and she is paying him 46K a month in child support so it isn't like he will struggle - same as Costner's wife.

But the monthly amounts are not forever. Then what? Is she expected to save those amounts rather than spend them? Maybe. I'm not disagreeing that the prenup could hold. I just don't understand why she and Brandon Blackstock signed this rubbish. Lots of women are SAHM's for 20+ years and they have all the rights to an equal share of what was earned during the marriage by the working spouse. Why would someone agree to $1.3M?? That wasn't even that much 20 years ago! Were they drugged? I just don't get it.

In Christine's case, I believe Kevin is providing a house as well so she has minimal expenses she needs to cover. Her monthly amounts should go a long ways given her housing and all child related costs are covered (many times over). If she gets a job that covers the basics for herself and invests / spends the monthly amount wisely - she should be able to live quite nicely. Her lifestyle will take a hit for sure but that is the reality of divorce for many. I am sure they sign to show they are in it for love and not for the money. Christine has gotten to live a luxurious lifestyle of excess for almost 20 years that has been entirely provided for her, spending as she wished from the sounds of it. That is a massive benefit that most people don't get through marriage. Twenty years of being handed life on a plate and living like the rich and famous based solely on the work and effort of another is a pretty good ride.

He is not providing a house. He is providing a monthly rental allowance, which presumably will end at some point. The youngest child is what, 13? I'm guessing these monthly amounts will last 5 years at best. I'm not saying she hasn't lived a great life, but I don't think she has accumulated any assets and it sounds to me like she is about to be up a creek with no paddle.

It was kind of her choice to throw away her paddle and let Kevin paddle for the entirely of the marriage. She got to relax in the most luxurious of canoes just drifting through a life provided for her with a team of people to do all the work that a typical non working parent might do. She has years while still provided for to start to live life as an adult with adult responsibilities. Most of us don't get free rides, we take on responsibilities as adults do. She can do the same and with a lot more help and money than most of us have.

Nice fiction but this is not a creative writing forum. You don't know anything about their daily life. Or do you work for their household something?

It was in the court documents she filed! Not creative writing in the least. She says there are three people who support the children. They have a house manager who she says manages the logistics of all the children’s activities. A chef who does all the shopping and meal prep and a housekeeper who does cleaning and laundry etc. She basically says her role is to be available for her kids when they need her as Kevin travel approx 25% of the time, and that she occasionally drives them to school.

I don’t need to work for them to read what she filed!

WOW. A house manager who manages the kids logistics, a chef who shops and cooks, a housekeeper who cleans… what did she EVEN do in her free time? She did not have a job, never paid a bill, never made her own money. She sounds like a loser and a leech.

Sounds like she got used to living like a lazy queen and doesn't want the party to end. Now she'll be hard up to go sink her claws into another sucker.

Oh please. I see this everywhere, men turn their wives (especially higher earners) into f g queens. The men create this situation and then at some point tire of it and move on blaming it on the wife. Not to sure if someone wanted to make me queen and provide my every desire at their costs (as a husband, that is) that I would not have signed up for that job. Big picture, if you look at her photos over the last few years, she started using injectables, botox, plastic surgery and repeatedly changing her hair color. She was clearing trying to retain her youth, perhaps with his repeated affairs she was feeling more threatened as she got older. Who knows what went on there, but you can't ignore the signs of a desperate woman trying to stay relevant in her own marriage. Personally, I think he should write her a check, not purchase a house for her and the children. My feeling is he told her a divorce was going to happen and she was advised to file first, maybe to save face or maybe to have the upper hand. Purchasing a home leads to providing security, which will be necessary for his children given his star power and wealth. It's not really possible for her to have those kids in a rambler down the street, he will not let that happen to those kids. No doubt he created this mess through their extravagance as a couple and encouraging said lifestyle. Her days were numbered as the kids are close to college age, I guess she turned up the heat and he wanted out.

[Anonymous]

I think he was controlling and she was sick of it. I am still wrapping my head around they were married almost 20 years and there were no homes bought during that time. That sounds like a guy who wants to make sure she is totally subservient to him. I am not loaded by would not be living on someone else’s house if I married someone married before. Maybe a year or two but then you create a life together with homes you pick out. You sell the old home and buy or build your own.He is so mad she dumped him that he is going to make her pay.

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Anonymous wrote:I think he was controlling and she was sick of it. I am still wrapping my head around they were married almost 20 years and there were no homes bought during that time. That sounds like a guy who wants to make sure she is totally subservient to him. I am not loaded by would not be living on someone else’s house if I married someone married before. Maybe a year or two but then you create a life together with homes you pick out. You sell the old home and buy or build your own.He is so mad she dumped him that he is going to make her pay.

It sounds like he lived their entire married life in preparation for this inevitable moment when she approached 50 .… This is why I have a career and if I do my job right as a mother, my daughters will as well.

[Anonymous]

Why hasn't she put her tax refunds before marriage into court record to detail this amazing career she had before they married? We know why...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Purchasing a home leads to providing security, which will be necessary for his children given his star power and wealth. It's not really possible for her to have those kids in a rambler down the street, he will not let that happen to those kids.

She can live where ever she wants, that's what the six-figures (?) per month child support is for. If she wants to blow the cash he gives her on a ridiculous house she doesn't need, that's on her. Let me guess, she's also too good to cook, clean, and take the kids to and from school?

[Anonymous]

Here is what is for sale for under 1.6 in the town they live in.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Carpinteria_CA/price-na-1600000

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Anonymous wrote:Well over $1 million cash going away money plus child support alone is going to be in access of $6 million cash tax free over the next 6 years. Since he's paying for all the kids' expenses, she can pocket all of it. 99.9999% of divorced moms would trade places with her.

99.9% of divorced moms aren't married to a guy worth 400 million plus.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is what is for sale for under 1.6 in the town they live in.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Carpinteria_CA/price-na-1600000

exactly...absurd