Over the weekend, Page Six ran an exclusive about Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner’s divorce, taken from some of Christine’s filings to the court. Christine hired a forensic accountant basically as soon as she decided to file for divorce, and that accountant provided Christine with a detailed summary of just how much money Costner has coming in and how much he’s spending per year. Costner isn’t overextended, but he’s spending way too much money, in my opinion. I suppose the point of filing those financials with the court is to emphasize just how badly Costner intends to screw over Christine if the prenup is upheld. Costner’s spending probably also justifies Christine’s request for $248K a month in child support. Meanwhile, the Sun’s sources now claim that Costner was really mad when Christine served him with divorce papers, because… he intended to file first??
Kevin Costner was stunned when he was given divorce papers — as he wanted to serve them himself. We can reveal the actor thought he and wife Christine had agreed to have an amicable split. He broke the news of their impending divorce to their three children in a family summit at a restaurant near their £115 million mansion in Montecito, California. But the 68-year-old Bodyguard star was “blindsided” the next day when Christine, 49, seized the initiative.
A source said: “Kevin sat his family down, told them he and their mum were getting a divorce and his lawyer was getting the paperwork drawn up. He wanted everything to be peaceful for the sake of his kids and told Christine he didn’t want a messy divorce because he’d already been through one. Then first thing the next morning, boom, Christine sneak attacks him and serves him with her own set of divorce papers. Kevin was so shocked. Christine has since made him look terrible, and has continued to do so.”
She has claimed her husband — worth £200million — told their kids they were divorcing in a ten-minute Zoom call.
Yeah, Christine told the court that Costner told the kids on a Zoom call from Las Vegas, and now he’s trying to say that he did it in person the day before Christine filed? I don’t believe it, any of it. When Christine filed, he was not acting like a man eager to go through another divorce. His team was doing furious damage control and publicly pleading for Christine to change her mind. Even if Christine and Kevin had spoken about a separation before she filed, it’s not like she could have arranged everything last minute as a way to surprise Costner – she clearly planned out everything, hired the forensic accountant, hired the divorce lawyer and had all of her ducks in a row. This is clearly Costner’s bruised ego. Hell hath no fury like a man whose wife charged a forensic accountant and divorce lawyer to his credit card.
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“Hell hath no fury like a man whose wife charged a forensic accountant and divorce lawyer to his credit card.“
This will never not be funny to me.
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Kevin wants us to believe that he took his kids OUT to a restaurant to announce that he and their mother would be getting a divorce. Why would you do this in a public place? Even if they privatized the restaurant, the staff are still there.
He’s too rich because the spin is bizarre. Life really must be different for him.
He’s also trying to look like he’s not involved with his family and not living in Montana separately and working on producing his series, which was one of the major complaints about him.
I’ve always known Costner was a jerk but the way he and his PR have been handling this divorce proves why she wants to divorce his a$$. He released a whole statement basically begging her not to divorce him, and now he wants us to believe that nope the divorce was his idea and he wanted out FIRST? Sure, Jan.
I don’t believe this ridiculous story at all. Also, Kevin’s spin on this is giving serious “you can’t quit, you’re fired!” energy.
“ Costner’s bruised ego. Hell hath no fury like a man whose wife charged a forensic accountant and divorce lawyer to his credit card.” Apparently. Lol.
This man shows himself to be more and more of a bum everyday. All of these 80’s 90’s ‘sexy leading men” have shown themselves to be deadbeat bums.
This reminds me of the Ben Affleck/ Chrissie O saga from years ago. This woman clearly has all of the receipts, Kevin! It’s asymmetrical warfare, and the old school PR strategies like this article are not serving him well here. Do not try to escalate with someone who holds all the details of both your business and personal dealings for the last two decades.
Yep, I’m petty enough to gloat.
Called it, that there was more to this & he was abusing her financially & emotionally & here we are.
He’s hopping mad she filed first & all this is retribution, using his kids to hurt them all too.
All you double standard she signed a pre nup people, take all the seats.
He’s been abusing her & she got out.
He’s Brad Pitt level of instability. I hope that family is protected.
Team kids IRL. Divorce sucks.
But this is millionaire celeb divorce so Let’s Go.
But I admit that all this is getting funnier by the day to me.
Kevin is clearly not listening to his PR team bc he keeps yapping and trying to change his story.
First “she blindsided me. I’d take her back.” “I’m homeless I tell ya” “Hey, I was gonna file first and get rid of her but she beat me to it” LOL.
He should have insisted on NDA to keep it all quiet as possible.
Made her an offer of $50M as alimony, + child sup/ed/all costs for the minor kids/trust funds for after 21. He keeps all 3 houses.
Plus the millions in lawyers fees, he’ll pay both sets of lawyers too.
Poor ego driven but dumb as a rock Kevin. LOL.
If they were talking about divorcing, why didn’t he get his sh*t together?
He could have easily paid out and kept it all quiet.
20+ years together, CA 50/50. This divorce is gonna cost him BIG.
The lawyers are dancing! Dancing on their desks, drinking champs and eating cake.
Which Kevin is also paying for. LOL.
More money, more problems.
Maybe Kevin can call Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Mel Gibson, for some support, everyone of them paid out huge divorce settlements.
Looking at this mess, I gotta say Brady and GB really did a nice job with their divorce. They kept the details mostly quiet and moved quickly for the kids sake.
I really don’t care for the “abusing her”. She is not claiming abuse. That is tossed out too quickly, IMO.
And I survived DV personally.
Yes, he has the money and fame but he gifted her $200K by their 1st anniversary, so she had some $$ of her own. She has a college degree, could/should have invested or been working even part time, staff for the kids.
Part of the partnership in these wealthy marriages is known at the start.
He makes millions, she was SAHM, living an incredible lifestyle due to his wealth.
He funded 2 biz she started, neither were successful.
At any point in 20+ years, she could/should have renegotiated the prenup to be more equal. She had choices many, many partners do not have to change or move on IRL.
Anyhow, she will be getting a huge settlement and still live better than 99% of us for the rest of her life.
Being a SAHM means she was doing the labor that made it possible for him to have a family and continue to go out and do the paid work. It is exactly why she SHOULD be entitled to some of his money, not an argument against it.
I’m team Christine (and team kids, which goes without saying.) So tired of these old men who think they can control everything and everyone.
She and her attorneys would not have told the court that he informed their children of the divorce (as a “gotcha!” punishment to her for daring to reject him!) via Zoom from location unless they could prove it. Way to go, father of the year material. Nobody is buying your ever-evolving, nonsensical spin, Kevin.
Get all that you deserve, Christine, and then go live your best life while that bitter old a-hole plays cowboy until even the horses are tired of him.
Even if it’s true, this does not make him look better. It’s just as bad, if not maybe worse than the Zoom thing. He took his kids out to a public restaurant to give them bad news? And still without his wife/their mother present? Gross.
He’s lying to save face, but just makes it worse. What next: I took them to Disney World to announce the divorce?
So, was he already planning to divorce her and announced it to the kids, or was he completely blindsided and “obviously doesn’t want the divorce and he would take her back?” I can smell the bulls**t from here!