Kevin Costner divorce

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know all the details, but after being married for so long couldn't they have agreed on a COLA for the $1M and in return she signs an NDA? Then the divorce is over quickly, no bad press for Kevin, and they move on. $1M is a good sum, but I can see how after 20 years of marriage that sum has eroded due to inflation. The prenup is binding, but asking nicely for a COLA may have worked and it could have benefited him to avoid this embarrassing circus.

Posters keep bringing this up as if he cares.

He should care. He has children and they are old enough that all their friends are talking about this. Also, Kevin isn't that young anymore. He could die tomorrow and this would be his legacy. He should wrap this up, pursue some good projects, and put something better in people's recent memory.

His kids will care that he is taking care of them, which he is. And his children with his first wife will definitely care he’s not losing large amounts of money to Christine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: He claims she spent over $2 million on plastic surgery last year. He rips her for making public that he broke the news about their divorce to their kids on a 10-minute video call, saying that is "most upsetting to me" in this process.

but mostly, he does not want his child support payments to cover his soon-to-be ex-wife's cosmetic surgery procedures.

That’s reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And, on top of that, he funded her two business attempts- one even before the marriage and one during the marriage Both failed.

Plus, if she was even mildly smart, she could have funded her IRAs.

She can live off the 1.5 mil/year in child support next five years - lets say she spends:

around 240K/year in housing;

About 120k/year in education (a high estimate since she only has to pay half of it;

About 20k/year in extracurricular activities for kids; Dad pay the other half

About 30k/year in clothing for children (crazy I known, but God only knows since they are accustomed to the best);

About 100k in food and entertainment for kids and her (high # but they are probably used to expensive vacations and restaurants, and take outs, etc); At least one week of vacation she can take his Aspen place free of charge per his offer btw

About 50k in health insurance; dad has to pay for half as well;

Let’s throw in another 100k for “incidentals” because why not? They are rich people and have expensive taste…

This all come to a grand total sum of $660k/year.

Her child support is about 1.440mil/year, so that leaves $780k for her to invest if she is wise. In five years, that would total 3.9mil. Plus the 1.4 (or is it 1.6?) mil she already has under the prenup.

Since she has had two failed business attempts, I would hope she does not try a third time and just plain invest that money/income while she has it.

She is set!

That is an ungodly amount of money to have left over at the end of the day 😳

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: He claims she spent over $2 million on plastic surgery last year. He rips her for making public that he broke the news about their divorce to their kids on a 10-minute video call, saying that is "most upsetting to me" in this process.

but mostly, he does not want his child support payments to cover his soon-to-be ex-wife's cosmetic surgery procedures.

How does one possibly spend $2 million on plastic surgery?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: He claims she spent over $2 million on plastic surgery last year. He rips her for making public that he broke the news about their divorce to their kids on a 10-minute video call, saying that is "most upsetting to me" in this process.

but mostly, he does not want his child support payments to cover his soon-to-be ex-wife's cosmetic surgery procedures.

How does one possibly spend $2 million on plastic surgery?

See the Heather Dubrow thread on how she has so much money. Beverly Hills plastic surgeons cost $$$$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know all the details, but after being married for so long couldn't they have agreed on a COLA for the $1M and in return she signs an NDA? Then the divorce is over quickly, no bad press for Kevin, and they move on. $1M is a good sum, but I can see how after 20 years of marriage that sum has eroded due to inflation. The prenup is binding, but asking nicely for a COLA may have worked and it could have benefited him to avoid this embarrassing circus.

Posters keep bringing this up as if he cares.

He should care. He has children and they are old enough that all their friends are talking about this. Also, Kevin isn't that young anymore. He could die tomorrow and this would be his legacy. He should wrap this up, pursue some good projects, and put something better in people's recent memory.

His kids will care that he is taking care of them, which he is. And his children with his first wife will definitely care he’s not losing large amounts of money to Christine.

He’s got plenty of money to support everyone and his first set of kids are not kids and not relevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: He claims she spent over $2 million on plastic surgery last year. He rips her for making public that he broke the news about their divorce to their kids on a 10-minute video call, saying that is "most upsetting to me" in this process.

but mostly, he does not want his child support payments to cover his soon-to-be ex-wife's cosmetic surgery procedures.

How does one possibly spend $2 million on plastic surgery?

They can afford it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe all these people saying 1.6M is good money for 20 years of work for a middle aged woman who has no pension, no 401k, and gave up her career. I think fair would be 5-10M. I agree with PP that prenups should have force but I think in the family law context the judges can look to whether the terms are unconscionable in context. If I were KC’s lawyer, I’d advise settling it out in the 5-10 range. It’s possible they’ve tried that and she’s holding out for more.

She didn’t give up a career though. She never had one.

Her career was raising their kids and other family needs while he was gone for months.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe all these people saying 1.6M is good money for 20 years of work for a middle aged woman who has no pension, no 401k, and gave up her career. I think fair would be 5-10M. I agree with PP that prenups should have force but I think in the family law context the judges can look to whether the terms are unconscionable in context. If I were KC’s lawyer, I’d advise settling it out in the 5-10 range. It’s possible they’ve tried that and she’s holding out for more.

I can't speak to the enforceability of the prenup, but the terms strike me as unconscionable. I'm a normal, lower UMC woman married to a similar normal, lower UMC man and if I got divorced I would have quite a bit more money than she's getting. That strikes me as odd as we're normal people and she was married to KC (centimillionaire) for a LONG time and they had three kids together.

You are no UMC f you have that kind of money but agree long term it’s not much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe all these people saying 1.6M is good money for 20 years of work for a middle aged woman who has no pension, no 401k, and gave up her career. I think fair would be 5-10M. I agree with PP that prenups should have force but I think in the family law context the judges can look to whether the terms are unconscionable in context. If I were KC’s lawyer, I’d advise settling it out in the 5-10 range. It’s possible they’ve tried that and she’s holding out for more.

She didn’t give up a career though. She never had one.

Her career was raising their kids and other family needs while he was gone for months.

Oh please, don’t be disingenuous! We are not talking about a run of the mill SAHP who stays at home and gives up their career because

a) it makes financial sense because of childcare costs;

b) parents decided at least one of them should stay home to provide care for their children in lieu of (extended) family, hired help, etc;

c) parents decided at least one of them should be home for their kids because the other parent couldn’t be as present.

I can understand b and c in their case, but that doesn’t change the HARD fact that this couple STILL had a ton of hired help, despite the fact that one parent was home 100% of the time. “They” (she) had personal assistant, nanny, maid, chef, and a chauffeur too (I bet).

Besides being emotionally and physically available, NOTHING else correlates to the typical SAHP experience: no cleaning, laundry, cooking, driving kids to and from while juggling multiple schedules and activities, no grocery shopping, errands to run. You know… stuff regular people do.

And having all this help is ok - I don’t see anything wrong with it if you have the means. I mean, what can be better than being able to enjoy time with your children without having to do the grind work? Anyone (or almost) who can afford would want that!

But once that 13y old began K, there was no reason for the mom to not work if that was her desire/goal… her kids were in school at least 6 hours per day and she had the luxury of a professional support system to deal with the other 2 or 3 hours of a typical work day (remember: nanny, personal assistant, chef, maid).

Or even work part time and start establishing a name for herself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe all these people saying 1.6M is good money for 20 years of work for a middle aged woman who has no pension, no 401k, and gave up her career. I think fair would be 5-10M. I agree with PP that prenups should have force but I think in the family law context the judges can look to whether the terms are unconscionable in context. If I were KC’s lawyer, I’d advise settling it out in the 5-10 range. It’s possible they’ve tried that and she’s holding out for more.

20 years of work? If we are equating marriage to work then he should also be compensated. He provided all the financial resources for those 20 years. I feel for her but I don’t understand how she has nothing. SAHMs know to put some funds away for themselves just in case…she was just there living in lala land…vacationing, leasing cars and getting cosmetic work done…and then ups and decides to file for divorce without having a solid plan.

Not how it works. All marital money is split in the divorce regardless of whose name is on bank account unless there's a prenup or the money was earned prior to marriage and not commingled. A separate bank account gives a SAHM some extra start up money instead of waiting for temporary spousal support, but it's not a complete plan for financial security.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is all hilarious. Especially all the totally not her or friends of hers or or her pr saying they’ll never watch another KC project.

I stopped tying my entertainment decisions to actor/comedian personal/political foibles a while ago. There are very few angels in the biz. I do draw the line at spousal/child physical abuse and murder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: He claims she spent over $2 million on plastic surgery last year. He rips her for making public that he broke the news about their divorce to their kids on a 10-minute video call, saying that is "most upsetting to me" in this process.

but mostly, he does not want his child support payments to cover his soon-to-be ex-wife's cosmetic surgery procedures.

How does one possibly spend $2 million on plastic surgery?

See the Heather Dubrow thread on how she has so much money. Beverly Hills plastic surgeons cost $$$$.

Heather Dubrow is rich thanks to her late brother-in-law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know all the details, but after being married for so long couldn't they have agreed on a COLA for the $1M and in return she signs an NDA? Then the divorce is over quickly, no bad press for Kevin, and they move on. $1M is a good sum, but I can see how after 20 years of marriage that sum has eroded due to inflation. The prenup is binding, but asking nicely for a COLA may have worked and it could have benefited him to avoid this embarrassing circus.

Posters keep bringing this up as if he cares.

He should care. He has children and they are old enough that all their friends are talking about this. Also, Kevin isn't that young anymore. He could die tomorrow and this would be his legacy. He should wrap this up, pursue some good projects, and put something better in people's recent memory.

His kids will care that he is taking care of them, which he is. And his children with his first wife will definitely care he’s not losing large amounts of money to Christine.

He’s got plenty of money to support everyone and his first set of kids are not kids and not relevant.

They are most certainly relevant and their inheritance should be protected from Christine.

The 100k+ being paid to Christine provides for way more than half of the expenses of the children under 18.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: He claims she spent over $2 million on plastic surgery last year. He rips her for making public that he broke the news about their divorce to their kids on a 10-minute video call, saying that is "most upsetting to me" in this process.

but mostly, he does not want his child support payments to cover his soon-to-be ex-wife's cosmetic surgery procedures.

How does one possibly spend $2 million on plastic surgery?

See the Heather Dubrow thread on how she has so much money. Beverly Hills plastic surgeons cost $$$$.

Heather Dubrow is rich thanks to her late brother-in-law.

Kevin was worth 8-10M at his death. More money than I will have but not enough money for the cost of their OC home, private planes, private chefs etc.