In the beginning of May, Christine Baumgartner filed for divorce from Kevin Costner. They were together for 25 years and married for 19 years. They have three children together, all of them under the age of 18. Costner was reportedly “blindsided” by Christine’s divorce filing and “sources close to Costner” suggested that he wanted to forget this whole divorce thing and get back together with her. There were plenty of rumors about why Christine suddenly filed, but I’m not sure any of those rumors panned out. Or it’s possible that Costner simply has a very good damage-control crisis-management team in place. Speaking of, after Costner got hosed in his first divorce, he apparently made Christine sign a pretty strict prenup. The prenup has a clause which basically says that in the case of a divorce, all of their homes are solely owned by Costner, and Christine would have to vacate all of their residences. Well, guess who is refusing to vacate?
Kevin Costner says his estranged wife Christine is refusing to pack her stuff and leave their home despite the clear terms of their prenup … claiming he’s already given her well over a million bucks to find a new place.
According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, Kevin says according to their prenup, Christine had 30 days to vacate the home he owns when she filed for divorce on May 1, but she still hasn’t left.
The docs say Kevin’s now asking for the court to get her out, and adds she shouldn’t be able to stay in the house … only using her position as leverage to make Kevin agree to her “various financial demands.”
Kevin claims he’s already given her a whopping $1.2 million per his obligations under the prenup — and says overall, the amount he’s shelled out has grown to around $1.45 million … money she now has available to lock down a new place.
The docs even say he’d be open to contributing as part of his child support obligations $30K per month for a rental house and is willing to advance another $10K for her moving costs.
As we reported, Kevin insists he owns all 3 of their homes, and their long-standing prenup — signed back in 2004 — specifically stated she had to fully vacate upon filing for divorce. TMZ broke the story, sources familiar told us Christine’s filing last month was a huge shock to him — adding it was a pretty devastating move … so something like this might be giving Kevin an even bigger headache.
Yeah… methinks this is one of the many reasons why Christine filed for divorce. You’re going to spend 25 years with someone, you’re going to have three minor children with someone, and then when she files for divorce, you’re going to run to court to evict her from the family home where she has been raising your children for nearly two decades? Please. And as I said – Christine only filed in early May. Does Costner really expect her to be out of the house in six weeks? That’s unreasonable, especially given that Costner has multiple homes and he’s probably not even IN Los Angeles right now. It’s petty and vindictive.
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What a prick
This sums Mr Costner up perfectly
Amen! The moving costs alone are a joke-does he know how much it costs to move? I’ve been relocated twice by my company and I’ve also seen private moving costs for my family-it’s insane if you’re packing up a normal house, and she has a damn mansion, and I’m sure it’s much more expensive on the West Coast than in the southeast. Also, while $1.45M is a lot of money to someone who might be living near poverty, this is a woman who has supported your career and had your children and kept everything going while you were off on location. $1.45M is barely enough to buy a small home in the areas where her kids are used to living. I will say, I think she was blinded by love and signed a crazy limiting prenup but still.
My guess is he’s been a raging jerk throughout the marriage and now that he got slapped in the face with reality, he’s going to financially penalize her using every tool he can get his hands on.
Jerk.
Can confirm it is not enough to buy any home where her kids are used to living. Houses on my street in Oakland California are going for $1 million with no central heating or insulation. And we somewhat regularly having shootings and armed car jackings.
Thank you for clarifying- I haven’t even looked at California real estate prices in a few years so I’m sure they’ve shot up. What a mess for everyone involved.
I wonder what the rest of that pre-nup says regarding the houses. If he owns all the houses in the event of a divorce, he may well own all the contents as well. She may find she only owns personal items such as clothing & jewelry. This is an astounding clause, and expecting her to vacate in six weeks?! Is she supposed to go live in a hotel while she searches for a place to live? What about the kids?
They have 3 kids together. I doubt they’ll each be able to have their own bedroom on that budget.
He has a very extensive real estate portfolio, which includes a $145M compound in Capinteria, CA and a 160-acre ranch outside of Aspen.
The fact that he was “blindsided” when he found out his wife was miserable says a lot about him.
One time during a medical visit with a male patient, he insisted he had no idea why his wife was so unhappy with him. I said, “my god, did you marry the one US female that will never once talk about what she is unhappy with in her marriage? Let’s call her right now and I’ll use my doctor interviewing skills to get it out of her. Give me her number.” Then he starts coughing and oh I know what she said it just…. then lots of devaluing. I don’t buy for one second that he had no idea.
My SIL ex husband was shocked, totally shocked when she left him, they “had the perfect marriage.” He said that to anyone who would listen. Anyone who’d seen them together for more than five minutes knew she was unhappy, because he was an abusive piece of trash. And she asked his dad, their priest, his sister, and anyone she could think of to talk to him about his behavior.
Anyone who says they were blindsided, or thought the marriage was great, I side eye. Maybe it was great for them because everyone else was killings themselves to keep their abusive ass happy.
@LUCY – you mean totally shocked because he had successfully worked his DARVO tactics for so long and then suddenly they didn’t work any more?
Good for SIL. I hope she’s on her way to peace now.
I’m a little confused here. She is the one who married a well-known celebrity. She is the one who signed the prenup. She is the one who filed for divorce. He may have given her some money recently, but she has been married to him for 25 years is it? I’m sure he has given her a monthly stipend of like 30,000+ a month. All he’s asking for is for her to vacate the premises based on that original prenup agreement. I find nothing wrong with that at all. Their kids are grown at this point.
All of their children are minors hun. And reside in the house with her.
I have always had a crush on this man. Even as a young teenager. But damn, this is an instance where the inside is so ugly it washes out the outside – like a tsunami.
Money will change you, and Costner is no exception.
The strict pre-nup makes sense in the beginning when you don’t know how long it’s gonna last.
But after 2 decades and 3 kids they should have amended the pre-nup a bit, it’s obvious she was serious with him.
He’s an asshole for this, but I suspect it’s probably because he didn’t expect the divorce and is now taking revenge. Hopefully he’ll cool off.
I think prenups should be legally made to expire after X amount of years in marriage.
A lot of them contain ‘sunset clauses’ so that prenup expires after a given number of years or the terms are softened.
After nearly 20 years marriage her lawyers could argue that a sunset clause would be implied, especially if there was some sort of crappy behaviour on his part i.e. repeatedly cheating, not seeing the kids bc filming away for long stretches of time etc.
I think she’s going to push to set aside the pre-nup, which is fair after 23+ years and 3 children. After all it’s estimated that he’s worth anything from $150-250 Million.
they can always be renegotiated but prenups often protect family wealth so that the money goes to the children rather than an ex-spouse.
I’m not a lawyer, but it seems like she would have a good shot at renegotiating this after the length of this marriage. I imagine she’ll get out of this with one house, at least. Or that the kids will, anyway.
Does he expect this woman to find a house in Los Angeles for 1.2 million that would be close to whatever school the kids go to and all the activities I’m sure they are involved in that she would need to manage? I know to most people that is a lot of money but in LA it would get you a shack with 1 bedroom and a leaky roof.
My take exactly, and he has a huge fortune.
I don’t know that market, but is 30k/month not enough for a nice rental? He’s damaging his reputation by doing this but I can see him digging in since he thinks she is doing this to renegotiate the prenup. His Hollywood moves have shown him to be extremely stubborn – sometimes he has made savvy decisions and sometimes disastrous ones. The only thing that matters here is the kids and he better wrap his head around that quickly.
It would be enough for a very nice rental, but my guess is that she’d pass on that because it wouldn’t be anything she’d have ownership over, and nothing that would build equity for her or the children.
The article says he would let her use “part of” the 30k child support money to go toward rent, not the entire 30k but even then, the problem is finding something in the area the kids are already settled in. LA is incredibly expensive and I’m sure they currently live in one of the most expensive places. The issue is finding something where she is close to the kids already established routines since I’m sure she is home much more than he is. he is often filming on location.
Exactly! Thank you for pointing this out! They have hellah nerve calling it a “whopping” amount. It’s nothing in LA, and where is she supposed to put her children – you need 4 bedrooms for her and three kids. Good luck finding this for 1.5 in LA near her kids’ school and activities.
My sister is going through this in another very expensive city. She has 2 kids. They need a 3 bedroom and the rise of the cost from a 2 bedroom to a 3 bedroom is staggering. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.
He is being an absolute prick and I think I’m done with him and his movies. 20 years of marriage and multiple children is not nothing. It’s gross how these men take your best income earning years and then their goal is to ensure you spend your life impoverished while they hoard millions.
I hope her lawyers rip him a new one.
I read the whopping as sarcasm
Does he even consider his children – are they going with their mum or is he coming home to look after them? Somehow I doubt he is that involved with them. What a dick move.
This is the stage when he realized she means it, and he can’t change her mind with charm, intimidation or reasoning with her. Now he is pissed off that she didn’t budge and doing these petty moves to show her how she can’t manage life without him. Textbook.
Yes, this is textbook toxic masculinity. He is angry she isn’t doing what he wants and what she is being told, so he’s now trying to prove that he ultimately owns her and her well-being. So gross and pathetic. I feel for her and the children. He clearly is a far distance from any of the family-oriented characters he plays in films.
I never really bought into it, but he’s one of those phony nice guys like Pitt. This is another way to wield his power and a form of abuse. I hope Christine and her children are safe and she lands on her feet.
Excellent take, Girl Ninja.
Exactly! He and Brad Pitt are both toxic trash drinking from the same toilet.
She signed the prenuptial, he not wrong for enforcing it. He gave her 1.4 million to buy a new place. He seem like a bitter man to throw her out after 25yrs but she agreed to it. Girl leave, start a new life with your kids and screw him.
Respectfully, legally you might not be wrong with this view. However, after 25 years together, 19 of them married and Kevin (and his wife, but for emphasis Kevin) had 3 kids…no. The prenuptial agreement should be amended. And if there is no NDA, the fact that KK supposedly did not want a divorce, but a few weeks later wants her evicted should be sounding an alarm.
$1.2 M to buy a house in LA May have been reasonable in 2004. In 2023 it absolutely is not. Especially not a four bedroom house that the children would be living in.
Prenups have a place, but they definitely need to be assumed to have fit the circumstances of when they were written, and not necessarily of when a long marriage dissolves.
$1.2m wouldn’t even buy a decent 3 bed little bungalow anywhere near their current schools in 2004, so I wonder why she agreed to this amount back then.
That amount is a pittance. That prenup definitely won’t stand up in court. She’s been with him for decades and deserves a healthy percentage of their shared assets. He’s going to have to (and should) fork over tens of millions. He was only able to build this life because he had her as his partner and she deserves every penny.
Nah. That prenup was signed before they had three children together , who are still minors, and have been married all this time. He knows he will have to pay a hell of a lot more to put Christine and his children in a very nice family home in California in the area where they go to school and have friends. She is the primary parent as he lives away for long stretches of time, but with this new project he’s obsessed with and doing, he might as well admit he is living out of state as far as his main residence. He’s going to be making that back-to-back western movie saga series (four movies in all) that he wants to release every three months, and he is funding most of it. He is co-writing, producing, directing, and acting in it also. That is all-consuming. It’s not just showing up as an actor for a movie. This is his passion project. Christine is fed up, and he can’t believe she left him.
So he will be paying far more than a paltry 1.45 million for a home for his children and his soon-to-ex who is raising those children. As others have said, that’s peanuts because of where they live.
Her lawyer probably told her not to move out. That prenuptial is 20 years old and I guess the lawyers will try and get more money, especially with three kids involved.
– 23/24 years together
– Married 18/19 years and has supported you through the renaissance of your career
– 3 minor children 16, 14 and 13 whom are established in their home and community
– Away for long periods of time where you don’t see your children
– Evidence of infidelity causing your partner mental anguish and eventually forcing her to the point she has to file for divorce
Also I am going to guess that pre-nup contains a ‘sunset clause’ or at the very least one is implied at this point after over 20 years and 3 children.
Curious to see what the US Lawyers have to say.
I personally feel she is smart to stay put and protect her children. Tough twitties he got banged up during his first rodeo. Not her fault. He played now he gotta pay.
I don’t think anyone has said he was unfaithful, only speculated that he *might* have cheated, but, for all we know, maybe she’s met someone.
He’s also not demanding the children move out (I don’t think?), just her. This might be the beginnings of custody stuff too.
How is she going to move out, but not the kids, if he’s away filming? I mean, I know the answer is “nannies,” but that’s an unreasonable thing to expect when their mother is right there. I hope she doesn’t budge an inch.
He tried to get a happy ending massage when they were on their honeymoon. Pretty sure he hasn’t improved.
Can we play mad libs for what he’s going to tell the 22ish year kid he starts dating next?
She is such a __________ and I didn’t see it because I’m such a trusting _____________ guy. She tried to take everything I have including my ___________ and use the kids as an excuse but my lawyer saw through her and he _________. My buddy testified what a great dad I am and he swore that ___________ and the forensic child psychiatrist that interviewed my kids just took what they were told and didn’t consider ___________. Baby I’m just a guy looking for true __________ with someone who won’t ___________ and unlike Al Pacino, I ________________.
I promise if you agree to this NDA that I will _______________ but you have to take an IQ test and the score has to be below _______.
There is no implied sunset clause. Agree with someone above that her attys told her to stay put as a bargaining chip. More favorably to her, she is very likely also staying put for the kids. She’s in a tough position because there are very few years until all of those kids are adults, putting her on a timer. He should just suck it up and do the right dang thing. People are idiots about money.
It’s not his money. It’s their money. Their family wouldn’t exist and couldn’t have functioned without her role in it, which allowed for him to do his job while having stability back home. This makes me so mad. If he wants to keep what he came in with, more power to him. But the earnings during their life together should be split down the middle, if you ask me. Her job sounds much harder than his in any case. Many actors who have done both have said as much.
^^ This 100% otherwise why get married and have children ?
Yet another woman who knew everything worth knowing when they married, but though he would change for her. I hope she planned carefully before she filed, because he’s still exactly the same person who got her to sign that prenup.
And you just know that he was bitter about his 1st wife and that settlement.
But naw, I feel for her on this. I don’t think she had a exit strategy. I think this is a last resort for her while she is still at a age to have the strength to do it for herself and their kids.
This makes him look like an absolute ass. A million is not much at all for a house in that area, but beyond that, he’s basically evicting HIS OWN CHILDREN from the house they’ve grown up in and are living in. Also, after that many years and 3 kids together, holding her to a strict prenup when he’s VERY wealthy is a really bad look. He’s a vengeful, punitive dickhead who doesn’t know the first thing about love. Only pretty on the outside.
“A million is not much at all for a house in that area”
^^ Which is exactly the point. I am going to guess her lawyers will argue some sort of economic hardship.
Also not sure about US law but doesn’t he have to maintain the living standards of his children after the divorce ?
he’s offering an additional $30k a month as part of a child support deal to get a rental — maybe that’s his play since he has such a hard on about property — he is willing to fork over for large rents while the children are young but when they age out she still won’t own a property of her own outright.
@Peony why even take that risk – his kids will hate him if he screws her like that. Just pony up enough for her to buy a house, throw a few million in a trust and then the child support.
This isn’t a Britney/ Justin situation, they were together 4 years before 18/19 years of marriage and 3 kids.
Gold diggers don’t stick around that long so the prenup seems redundant at this point.
She was a handbag designer when they met so she also gave up a lucrative career. Maybe not in the millions but her career was possible bc she assumed primary responsibility of the children.
He needs to acknowledge that, prenup or not.
It’s sure obvious he doesn’t care much about the well-being of his 3 under 18 years kids. Another Hollywood asshat.
This is the lawyers at work.
Her side tells her to stay put, they will fight the prenup.
His side tells him to file to get her out the prenup will hold.
$1.5M in CA is not going to get those kids a house close to their schools.
Plus it is a dick move on his part.
I’m surprised he went this far, to let it go public.
His ego is huge, he also has his big, new project to protect.
His nice guy image is going to hell if he forces his kids out of their primary house.
This is going to get ugly, very publicly, very quickly.
Costner will go hard he assumes he has the upper hand and is not going to back down.
Once again, the kids are in the middle. Team kids.
They should absolutely be able to stay in their house with their mother until they are all through college. Anything else is cruel.
I hope she gets more in the end.
Plus I seriously doubt the kids go to the carp-town public schools and some of those private LA adjacent schools run 60ish-k/yr tuition plus extras when you get into high school.
Kids at those types of schools will go summer (I mean, summer as a verb) at places like the lake across from George and Amal. That would be cruel to suddenly make your kids have an apartment when all their friends have mansions, and have them getting shoes at Macys when their friends are wearing Gucci loafers.
I am not in any way saying Macys is cruel for a kid. My kid is lucky to get that. I’m saying that suddenly, unnecessarily, and -arbitrarily- significantly introducing such sharp discrepancy to a kid is rude.
The way this was written up by tmz is just so 🙄 making it sound like Kevin is being generous to the mother of his children and not a petty a*****e.
TMZ is such misogynistic trash. The way they treated Britney Spears and now they made a documentary about her I think! Can’t stop using women they trash to make bank.
If they are divorcing, then someone has to leave the house. It doesn’t mean the kids have to go too. She shouldn’t have signed the prenup if she wasn’t prepared to follow through. I don’t particularly like Costner, but if she wants out of the marriage, then she can get out of the house.
Seriously? What kids want to stay with a part time father. They will choose their Mom. Unless the children have told him they definitely wanted her gone this is a dick move with no concern for his children. If she wants the divorce SHE should suck it up? Misogynistic much?
The kids are minors and he is never home. If she moves out she would have to take her kids with her. At this point I’m sure she is following her attorney’s advice and staying put.
this is where I land too – at least on the residence piece of it. Once a person decides they are finished and files for divorce, it’s time to pack a bag — you don’t get to tell someone else you are done and expect them to move out on your decision.
She really should have made alternate living arrangements and then filed — can’t call him an asshole for asking her to move out as part of his legal strategy when she is staying as part of hers.
Just curious how you think how after 25 years with someone who’s got several properties in his name and is trying to shut her out of the one property she and the kids have lived in consistently that she would magically have the ability to make other arrangements for a home where the kids’ school and friends are.
Go on and explain how easy it is to make such arrangements.
He’s the one who already doesn’t live there. Why should she leave? He can go to one of his other multiple homes.
Exactly by his own assertion he has MANY residences and is offering 1.3M so it’s not like he desperately needs the money.
Also why put your kids through this trauma?
He’s just trying to emotionally blackmail his wife into changing her mind.
I don’t know the exact year the Barry bonds prenup rules came into effect in LA county, but it certainly sounds like their prenup doesn’t meet those specifications. If it didn’t meet them and I was her divorce lawyer I’d be ready to fight the entire agreement.
I believe he’s never stopped cheating ever.
She may be at the age,like most women, where to finally woke up and decide they had enough.
Just give her the house and a hunk of money. If not it’s time to start leaking stories
I don’t think he ever stopped cheating either. Didn’t he try to get a masseuse to do sexual favors during his honeymoon? He said his vows to her and was trying to cheat days later.
@Kebbie Excuse me ???
Costner is saying the 3 huge estates he owned before the marriage are in the prenup.
She and the kids still need a home to stay in.
Costner is an ass to insist she and the kids move out before the divorce is settled.
Why upset the kids more?
It is the first round in lawyers negotiations on both sides.
If every detail comes out, this is going to be a long and very public fight.
At his age Costner stands a good chance of having a nasty divorce be his legacy instead of his career heights.
Second nasty divorce. He fought his first wife (college sweetheart, 3 kids) tooth and nail, and she supported him the entire time he was building his career. He lost, and rightfully so, which is why he demanded such a restrictive prenup this time around.
I read about the first marriage last night. College sweetheart, married him before he was famous, married 15 years, 3 kids, and he cheated on her up and down with multiple women. He’s trash, had always been trash, and I hope this wife gets $80 million, too.
She is going to get half of everything from the last 25 years — regardless of that prenup because of the length of time and California is a 50/50 no fault state– smart money would be to negotiate a lump sum to her in advance to purchase a home and get on with it quietly. I’m not sure his ego can allow that to happen.
I think this is the way forward with pre-nups, protect what you BOTH have prior to marriage incl property, money ect and then equitably divide what you both contribute to during the marriage.
Providing a home for and looking after their children was THE most important job in the relationship, the idea that she is kicked out of her home with $1.3M is just disgusting and tasteless.
What can she get in their neighborhood for that amount? $30K and 1.2 million may seem like a lot, but in their market, not so much…
AITA? Yes, Kevin, you very much are the asshole here.
I used to have a crush on Kevin Costner when he first broke out in the late 80s, but then the scales fell from my eyes when he was such a dick to his first wife in the divorce. Then he was in a short relationship with a woman who got pregnant, and he fought tooth and nail not to pay child support because he didn’t want the child.
OMG, “a whopping $1.2 million”, even revised up to $1.5 million–does anyone pay attention to housing prices in Southern California? Should be more like $5 million, and that’s an upper middle class home in a halfway decent area. (I live in Seattle, and my sister is a realtor in San Diego, so we keep track).
The least he could do is provide his ex and their children with a decent home free and clear. I don’t care about the pre-nup: the fact that he is nickel and diming her (and the kids) after almost 20 years of marriage is a really bad look.
This is a great way to remind an ex-partner exactly why they decided to leave in the first place. Good luck to Christine and the minor children, Kevin is not going to give an inch without a battle in the courts. What a jerk.
Shades of Brad here — If I can’t have you, if you dare to wound my fragile ego by leaving me — I’m gonna make your life as hard as possible because I don’t want you to have anything that I think should belong to me.
Costner is going to pay a fortune in lawyers bills any way this goes in the long run.
The pre nup states all 3 properties were his before the marriage. Fine. She signed off on that.
Here’s my idea, she moves out and rents, with the kids while the divorce goes on.
Costner pays out a flat $50-$60M to her, plus child support, sets up fat trust accounts for the kids.
He is stupidly wealthy. Also in his late 60’s or early 70’s. How much money does either of them need?
Costner, like Pacino and DeNiro is turning into a right old fool.
Costner has 8 kids total, he is still worth $200-$300M at this time. Settle $60M on her and get it over with.
And if you can’t restart your life with $60M, I can’t help ya!
He’ll be the next dude popping out babies in his 80s and complaining about it.
Nope. Moving out in a contested divorce is a very bad idea as it legally constitutes “abandonment.” You can lose custody of the kids if you move out and leave them with their dad. You can lose the right to your share of the family home. Never move out until the divorce is far enough along that your rights are protected.
The f-ck? How in the hell do you do that so easily and so self-righteously? Horrible PR look too. Everyone will hate him for this. I do.
One reason prenups can be good is because you make the decisions about how things will work in the early stages when you’re still in love. It takes away the possibility of trying to cut someone off because the love has gone & you’re bitter. The fact that this is the prenup he asked for at the very start says everything about the type of man he is.
This prenup is particularly problematic bc $1M in 2003 is not the same as £1M in 2023.
There should have been a lock-step, whereby she accrued $500k every year and then a flat $10M at 10 years to reflect the ehnanced community property rights in California.
This is the problem with lowballing, it never ends well for both parties. The ex wife is right to refuse to move out, she has three kids to house and she wants to ensure they have somewhere to live.
I remember when he was the corpse being readied for the funeral in The Big Chill so I wonder how any woman would view him as as a loving and devoted husband given his reputation in the decades since.
I remember before they were married they split since he didn’t want kids and she did. My guess, is she signed this so he would agree to kids. As all of a sudden, the wedding was back on. I’m sure a good lawyer will drive right through it and she will get a proper settlement.
A woman should always have her ducks in a row before filing for divorce (if she can). Seems like she did it quite suddenly (and I’m sure for a good reason). Hate to hear this is happening with 3 teenagers. Such a stressful time for all of them.
Who else thinks Kevin wants what Kevin wants, and does not give 2 hot damns how this hurts his young kids?
He is all in on that new expensive project of his. He is banking on it bringing him back to the heights of his Dancing With Wolves fame and money.
It is ALL about his ego.
He openly said he didn’t want more kids, she should have believed him.
She is going to be a single Mom for those kids forever.
He should quietly offer a good sized settlement, with NDA.
Does he not realize that if the divorce is not finalized, every cents he earns is still up for grabs?
He is getting $1.5M per episode of Yellowstone, with 8 yet to be filmed.
IF the new big project is a hit, half of all that is on the table also.
Plus, those of us in his age group recall his lousy behavior in his first marriage.
As a celeb gossip item, this is gonna be a barn burner if Kevin doesn’t settle it quickly.
More money, more problems. His ego is huge! Huge! LOL Cheating jackass deserves to get his hat handed to him. If he cheated on her or not. Which I’d still bet money he did cheat on her endlessly, unless his age shut him down.
I have never bought into him being a nice guy, and frankly I don’t think he’s all that good of an actor. 🤷
Whoa…she signed a pre-nup folks meaning she agreed to the terms of the document. Get the hell outta the house—“you don’t live here no more!” I do love how even when the wife/female partner is shady AF, the man gets taken to task. Kids, everyone woman is a saint, and ever man isn’t the devil.
I have a close friend whose husband of 20 years earns 2 million a year. A fraction of Kostners worth. She also has 3 minor children. Her wealthy husband would be up for a 10 x more generous package than Chistine Kostner. I bet her lawyers will be able to easily overturn her 20 year old pre nup.
My husband and I were talking about this earlier. Kevin mismanages money. This is going to cost him more in the long run. I don’t care how good his lawyers are the judge will amend this prenup. There are minor children involved. The judge will take into account the children’s stability, the COL for that area, and anything related to the children’s well being. Kevin just needs to give her the house. I have had the biggest crush on him forever. I would have divorced him years ago. I applaud she stayed with him for so long.
He always seemed gross to me. Marrying someone so much younger and all. I’m pretty sure the prenup won’t hold up, since they’ve been together for so long, or at least, they should be able to make an amendment to it.
I never understood his appeal to the masses, even though I loved Field of Dreams, not because of him though. Always thought he was a phony and when it was proved that he cheated on his first wife wasn’t really surprised.
That being said he’s being petty as neck to make the mother of his kids vacate the residence when he has two other homes to reside in. I’m sure his younger kids who are 15, 14 and 13 want to stay in their home, school and close their friends.
I bet his lawyer is telling him to play hardball to negotiate A settlement
There are two sides to every story.