Billy Ray Cyrus filed for divorce/annulment from Firerose last week. Well, he filed for divorce but he’s seeking an annulment based on some kind of “fraud” on Firerose’s part. As I said at the time, Firerose has always given me huge con artist vibes and I find it hilariously suspicious that she just showed up one day, claiming to be an Australian songwriter with a curiously empty backstory. Still, Billy Ray married her last year. It only took him eight months of marriage to figure it out. Apparently, as soon as he filed for divorce, Firerose started running up all of his credit cards. Who could have ever predicted this turn of events??
Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose are going head to head in court over their finances. Weeks after filing for divorce, Cyrus filed on emergency motion in Tennessee court on Thursday, June 13 seeking a temporary restraining order that would keep his estranged wife from any “unauthorized” use of his personal and business credit cards and accounts.
The country singer, 62, alleged in documents obtained by PEOPLE that Firerose — real name Johanna Rose Hodges — has in recent weeks spent $96,986 on 37 unauthorized charges on his business account, including $70,665 in payments to her attorneys.
“As a result of these fraudulent charges… I am concerned that Ms. Hodges is in possession of other information that she may use to make fraudulent, unauthorized charges to my business and personal credit cards and accounts,” Cyrus wrote in an affidavit.
Cyrus claims in the documents that the charges began on May 23, the day he filed for divorce after nearly seven months of marriage. The “Achy Breaky Heart” singer cited irreconcilable differences and inappropriate marital conduct as reason for the split, and is also seeking an annulment on the grounds of fraud.
In a response to Cyrus’s emergency motion filing, Firerose, 37, said there was in fact “no emergency,” and that she has had access to his American Express credit card since June 2022.
“To claim Wife has made 37 unauthorized charges is untrue,” her attorneys wrote in the response filing, which was obtained by PEOPLE. “Throughout the divorce proceedings, the parties are to live as per the status quo during the marriage. Wife was simply living as she has since October 10, 2023, and Husband has no right to cut her off.” Firerose’s filing said that after she and Cyrus married in October 2023, she continued to use his cards with his full permission, and that the couple would “routinely go over” her expenses on the card in question.
Cyrus’ motion, meanwhile, alleges that he and Firerose, a musician, do not have any joint accounts, credit cards or real estate, and that neither party was ever an authorized signer or user on the other’s cards or accounts. He also claims that she owns real estate in Los Angeles worth over seven figures, and that she has more than $500,000 in “liquid and investment assets at her disposal.” The former Hannah Montana star is asking his estranged wife to refund or return anything she bought with his business credit card.
That last part is interesting – Firerose already owns real estate in LA and she has $500K stocked away? I don’t know enough about California divorces or who pays the divorce lawyers’ bills, but I honestly don’t have a problem with Firerose charging her divorce lawyers to Billy Ray’s credit cards. That’s honestly an “atta girl” moment for me. I loved when Christine Baumgartner did that to Kevin Costner too. I suspect both Billy Ray and Firerose are playing a bit fast and loose with the facts – I’m sure Billy Ray did give her a credit card to use, but I bet she was also running up some charges after he filed for divorce. Oh well. I’m expecting much more to come out of this divorce in the weeks to come.
Photos courtesy of Billy Ray’s IG.
Did anyone really believe that this would turn out any differently than it has? I’m reminded of a saying, “there’s no fool like an old fool”.
I came here to say that very thing.
Ugh. That hair. Terrible.
She could have used some of that $96k to buy him a comb & brush set as a lovely parting gift.
Billy if you want a serious not after your money wife CUT THAT AWFUL hair. Dude you can have long hair but start over that hair is beyond repair. Not sure we can fix the poor judgement but start with the hair
I don’t that’s actually his hair
He simply needs to ditch the ridonkulous wig
This right here. Hard wig, soft life.
Hahahahah yes!
This happened to my cousin during his divorce. His ex-wife racked up almost a quarter million in charges in less than six months, on things like furniture, sporting equipment, etc. She said it was for the kids. They have two kids. He already paid for the kids’ furniture for her new condo and the sports equipment was for sports the kids didn’t play (but she did).
Even her lawyer was pissed at her. That split was a wild ride. And that was with an iron clad prenup.
Holy Cow how do you spend that much in 6 months wow! Your cousin must have been livid
all of this is why you should ALWAYS have your own accounts. and your own phone. make it a burner if need be.
if you plan to leave your spouse, get your financials in order, and your own phone/phone plan. at the very least! and hide it. THEN file.
lol, my good advice is on moderation. I’m just trying to be helpful.
srsly, Billy made his move too soon. he can afford it, but most of us can’t.
this is why, if you are planning to divorce, you should make some moves before filing.
get out of your joint accounts. find a new bank and stash your money… as much as you can – there.
get your own phone plan. consider a burner phone.
get your ducks in a row and then file.
look at what Katie Holmes did, and do that.
sorry for the double post. it didn’t show up at first.
For some reason my brain always converts her name to Firehose.
Same. I can’t not see it now.
Never trust a b with no pores at all
I would date BRC. He would sing me “Achy Breaky Heart” every night as I drift off to sleep.
I actually like some of Miley’s music, but lort this is a messy, messy bunch that I could never see on my feed again and be totally happy. Sometimes (most of the time) fame fades and it is best to fade into the background and not seek the limelight anymore. One major mainstream hit 30 plus years ago and he is still working the angles. How much of this messy mess is being conned versus keeping his name in the papers and being in competition with his ex? We know how the wingers love to bash women and how much skewed positive attention Kevin Costner got when his ex bolted.
Miley is very talented and has a great voice.
Billy Ray was pretty good on Old Town Road, I will give him that!
😆’ Who could have ever predicted this turn of events??’ Everyone. Literally everyone.
If Cali is a 50-50 state where divorce is concerned, then her 7-figure real estate & 500k liquid assets will also split 50-50.
Fot his sake i hope he gets the annulment and/or had a pre-nup, given that he has more to lose.
California community property only applies to money made and assets bought during the marriage.
Normally i am not a drama person. But this is somehow funny. Billy looks really desperate.
There needs to be a term for men who delude themselves into thinking absurdly young women are into them for anything but money or fame. Like yeah, sometimes May-December romances come by honestly, but the majority of them? Let’s be real. There’s a silver lining in there somewhere. They’re called trophy spouses for a reason.
And to be clear, I think these arrangements are perfectly fine, too — as long as everybody understands what they’re getting into.
We all saw that coming, right?
If she has her own career, real estate, and savings, I don’t see why she should get to charge her lawyers to his credit card. If they didn’t have access to each other’s cards/accounts, that sounds like fraud.
Christine doing it was a different story, as she was a stay at home parent without income or assets of her own, and they’d been married a long time. This Cyrus mess was 8 months.
She’s going to have a hard time proving why she should be allowed to charge items on his BUSINESS account. His personal CC? Okay fine whatever. But why was she charging items to his business care?
Maybe she misplaced the personal credit card? And what counts as “business” for Billy Ray anyway? I kinda want her to keep her purchases. Serves Billy right for being a dumb ass in general.