Kevin Costner and his wife Christine’s divorce continues to be ugly. He claims she spent over $2 million on plastic surgery last year. He angers her for making it public that he broke the news of her divorce to her children over a 10-minute video call, saying it’s “the most troubling thing for me” in the process. (Photos: Getty Images)
Kevin Costner doesn’t want his child support payments to cover his future ex-wife’s cosmetic surgery.
Ahead of the July 5 and July 12 hearings, the Yellowstone star and his second wife Christine filed court documents obtained by Yahoo arguing how much temporary child support Christine should receive to raise their three children while she takes care of her Family take care of divorce. Lawyers for Kevin – who is planning to evict Christine from his beachfront property in Carpinteria, California under her prenuptial agreement, which gives her 30 days to move – made it clear they are cracking down, accusing the former handbag designer of trying to subdue Kevin Pressure to put up an “astronomical amount of child support” to cover their own expenses, not the children’s.
Kevin and Christine Costner with their kids on the red carpet — in happier times. (Photo: Rob Latour/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Christine, who filed for divorce on May 1 after 18 years of marriage, said she wants $248,000 a month so Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13, can continue living the lifestyle to which They’ve Settled The actor made $19 million last year and is worth an estimated $400 million. Kevin dismisses the amount, claiming Christine is charging more than the guidance allowance of $123,620 a month to support her own lifestyle, including “plastic surgery expenses of $188,500 a month.”
“Christine’s list of minor children’s ‘needs’ for child support purposes is excessive and grossly inaccurate,” wrote Kevin’s attorney, Laura Wasser. “Christine is failing in her duty to demonstrate that child support in excess of policy is necessary to meet the children’s reasonable needs.” It says she was “fundamentally dishonest” in calculating the children’s “reasonable” needs – and it is claimed she included “her personal non-child related expenses, such as having extensive plastic surgery for herself in 2022.”
It goes on to say that Christine’s list of expenses is “absurdly unreal” and “rather misleading” as she lists her “private trainer… and her plastic surgery” among her children’s expenses. “The children do not use the services of private coaches, only Christine. The $188,500-a-month plastic surgery expense belongs to Christine — not the kids.”
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Kevin also claimed that Christine – who is entitled to a $1.4 million divorce settlement under her prenuptial agreement – in addition to the cosmetic surgery, “has spent significant amounts of money on herself and on people other than our children and on purposes unrelated to.” ours to do.” Children. Examples include Christine’s clothing and jewelry purchases, spa treatments and personal hygiene, and gifts to friends and family.”
Kevin Costner and Christine at the 2022 Oscars. (Photo: Portal/Eric Gaillard)
Kevin also called out Christine for revealing in her previous file that he told her kids about the divorce during a “10-minute Zoom call” from “his Las Vegas hotel room” when she wasn’t there. Kevin says, “What worries me most about this process” is the feeling that her motivation “has nothing to do with her requests for assistance or fees.” In his opinion, it was just a matter of “putting myself in a negative light and giving an impetus so that the media can pick it up. The media picked it up for our kids to read.”
Kevin – who pays 100% of the tuition, extracurricular activities and the children’s healthcare costs – said he will respond “briefly” to claims he refused to personally tell the children along with Christine. He said that a month before she filed for divorce, Christine told him she wanted to end their marriage. Kevin, who didn’t want the divorce, agreed to tell their children together but wanted them to agree on what they would say because he knew they would be inquiring about the new living arrangements and, according to the prenuptial agreement would mean Christine had 30 days to move out. Kevin claimed Christine “wouldn’t commit to telling our kids she was moving out of the property,” which she values at $100 million. He said weeks went by and he hated being “in limbo” about the state of their marriage, so he directed his attorney to file for divorce on May 2. His attorney informed Christine’s as a courtesy. Kevin also made arrangements to call the children three days before filing the divorce petition to tell them about the divorce himself.
“I Facetimed them … from St. George, Utah (not Las Vegas as Christine states) where I was filming,” he said. “It wasn’t ideal, but it’s the only way I can think of to avoid a conflict between us in front of our kids.” The next day, “Christine filed for divorce,” ahead of Kevin.
There are numerous other allegations in the court documents, in which Christine explains why she should be receiving $248,000 a month in child support, while Kevin disagrees and downplays his income. Here are the highlights in “He Said She Said…”
Kevin says, “Christine’s claim that our three teenage children ‘need’ $248,000 a month to live on is amazing to me and…not accurate.” Nor can I afford to pay those amounts and support my living and business expenses without liquidating assets.” While Christine said they live on a $100 million estate and she needs a similar new home to maintain that lifestyle, Kevin says they actually live in a house on a three house lot and the two guest houses for Rent $65,000 a month each. She said his Aspen home was worth $250 million, but he said the three homes on that lot were also rented. In addition, her children only come to visit for two weeks a year. Kevin also denies owning a private plane – another aspect Christine cited as part of her lifestyle. He says she listed her children’s private school fees as something they pay for, but two of the three actually attend public schools now. He also says that it was Christine who recently signed her up for a second golf club membership, although he felt they didn’t need to be a member of two golf clubs.
“It is clear to me from Christine’s statement that in asking for child support she is really trying to emulate her own lifestyle,” he writes. “There is much discussion of our ‘marital lifestyle,’ but little attention or analysis of our children’s actual spending.”
Kevin says he doesn’t do anything anymore Yellowstone Money. Their financials from last year say Kevin earned $19 million. However, “I will be making significantly less in 2023 than I will in 2022…because I’m no longer under contract with Yellowstone,” he writes. While Christine maintained that their homes were property with no debt, he says there are “lines of credit/loans secured by my Aspen Ranch, my primary residence and….” [another on the compound that] nearly $30 million total.” (He’s discussed mortgaging his other waterfront property to make Horizon.) Additionally, he notes that “we don’t own houses together,” and says that he owned them all before he met Christine.
Christine says she will be moving out of her beachfront home by August 31 at the latest. – if she gets child support from Kevin. “I didn’t refuse to move out and tried to sort out child support,” she insists, but wants the order in place before she leaves. She adds that she is “trying to settle the matter amicably and expeditiously, but my numerous requests and suggestions…” [have] There were only blockages, rejections and an inadequate offer.”
Christine claims she was trying to move into a rental property in posh Montecito, but without a child support letter showing that she has an income, she could not get a lease as she has no job or source of income. She accuses Kevin of being “aggressive” in taking her out of the house, particularly as “the mother and primary caregiver of our three children…” This behavior is unfortunately consistent with Kevin’s take on this divorce, which is fast becoming a contentious one has taken a turn. despite my best efforts to make this process as amicable as possible.”
She says it’s “in the kids’ best interests to stay close” to the beach house – “To facilitate exchanges… This limits our housing options to Montecito and Padaro Beach.” However, “the cost of living in Santa Barbara is exceedingly high. As of mid-May, there was only one (1) property (excluding mobile homes) on the market…for under $1,000,000,” she wrote. This property — a 1,300-square-foot condo 45 minutes away — wasn’t enough.
Kevin claims Christine bought four cars before their breakup and didn’t tell him until later. He said they always lease cars, but in late 2022/early 2023 she bought a total of four cars — two for her parents, one for herself and one for Kevin — in cash, and he wasn’t told the fact until “later.” “
Christine claims he is cutting back on her current spending. She says he “cancelled one of my credit cards and significantly lowered my credit limit on my second credit card, well below status quo levels, all without notice to me.”
Christine claims she has been taking care of the children since March while Kevin is away horizon. She says he’s usually on site about four months a year and also travels with his band while she’s at home with the kids.
Kevin says that in addition to paying Christine’s new mortgage, insurance, and taxes when they move (per their prenuptial agreement), he will allow Christines to take the children to the Aspen house each year. Only for a week but she can live in the main house (there are three houses on the property) rent free. He also says that she can take her kids to their golf clubs and that he will cover her expenses when she is there (green fees, food, merchandise).
Kevin and Christine were married at his Aspen estate. (Photo: WireImage House/WireImage)
Kevin came home after the breakup – and stayed at home with Christine and their children. Her son Cayden’s birthday was in May, so Kevin returned from Utah to celebrate. With Kevin and Christine arguing about moving out, the exes stayed under the same roof – she just moved out of the master bedroom for those few days. According to both reports, they were cordial to each other.
The next hearing, a case management conference, will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 5. There will be a child support hearing on July 12.