Dad of eight Jon Gosselin is headed to the drunken poorhouse. Fox News reports that the former reality star is broke and now that a judge has issued an injunction against future paid appearances he has no way of paying his legal bills. Last week, Jon’s off-again girlfriend, Hailey Glassman, told Radar that Jon’s manager was holding a check for her from her appearance on The Insider in October. Jon is managed by a guy named Michael Heller and his lawyer is his manager’s dad, Mark Heller. He owes all of them money and Michael Heller told Hailey that she needed to sign her check over to Jon so that Jon could pay his dad. “Then when the check came, Michael [Heller, Jon’s manager] wouldn’t give it to me because he said that Jon owed his father [Mark Heller] money and he wanted me to sign my check over to Jon. It was the most ridiculous thing in the world. To this day, Mike Heller has my check from October.”
Last week, TLC was granted a preliminary injunction that forced Jon to stop making public appearances. Now a source close to Gosselin tells Fox411.com that the decision was a serious blow to the livelihood of the former “Jon and Kate Plus 8” star.
“Jon’s in pretty serious financial trouble because his plan for making money was shut down in court,” the insider said. “He has warned his lawyers that he can’t pay them and if he doesn’t succeed against TLC, he will have no funds. He’s even gone so far as to say that if they want to be paid, they will have to sue him.”
Those lawyers are part of a father/son team that was introduced to Gosselin by Michael Lohan, says the insider.
“Mark and Mike Heller were brought in because Michael Lohan was involved, and he convinced them to join Jon’s team early on in the summer,” the source said. “Lohan wanted to latch onto Jon and involved many people he knew. He convinced them Jon was going to have a successful career after the show.”
Mike Heller is the CEO of Talent Resources, which manages Jon Gosselin, and Mark Heller is Jon Gosselin’s New York lawyer.
But it wasn’t just Michael Lohan, currently having trouble himself, fueling the enthusiasm around the TV dad. Gosselin also led his lawyers to believe that he had money in his various accounts, said the source.Now Gosselin’s bills are stacking up and he needs to get a legitimate job, but the insider says he is making no effort to get one.
“It’s a good thing Kate Gosselin has been put in charge of the family funds that provide for the couple’s eight children,” the insider says. “She is the responsible parent.”
Reps for the Hellers deny any problems with Gosselin.“Jon Gosselin’s New York lawyer has the highest regard for Jon Gosselin and will continue to work for Jon for as long as he requires their services,” the rep said in a written statement to Fox411.com “The Hellers have no concern relevant to being paid by Jon for their services and see no circumstances under which they would ever sue Jon.”
“This past year, Jon Gosselin was the most photographed man in America and appeared in more magazines than any other reality TV star,” the statement continues. “Wherever he goes, there is an outpouring of love for him from his fans. And there is no doubt that he has a bright and shining career ahead of him.”
[From Fox411]
Gosselin has managed to alienate just about everyone around him with his lies and childish behavior. First it was the bossy wife that was holding his family together, then it was one girlfriend after another, followed by the one he claimed was his soulmate. Finally, his duplicitous lawyer has probably bailed on him during a case in which could potentially bankrupt him while blocking any future possibility of a media career. Jon didn’t even show up in court during an important ruling. Of course the guy says he’s standing by Jon, he wants to get paid.
Let’s see what happens when this idiot has to get a job
Would you like fries with that?
This douchebag is a candidate for a “Traumeel” OD.
Well maybe he should get a real job, stop with his lawsuits and STFU! Not my problem he can’t afford his high priced legal eagles.
Countdown to him being evicted from his swanky NY bachelor pad in 3…2…1…
Ow my eyes – he’s just painful to look at!
Why am I not surprised? I think I’m going to have a heart attack and die from that surprise! *sarcasm*
So, do you think Kate will let him move in to the garage apartment when he is (inevitably) rendered homeless? I bet she does.
He is so pathetic.
You could see it all coming too, when they split he went off running around like a millionaire bachelor, spending the big bucks, and now what a surprise, he has no job, no money, nothing. A total and complete loser.
There’s my “outpouring of love” for the day. 🙂
Looks like he will be returning that ATV and laptop that he got Mady and Cara for their birthdays. Can’t buy love.
I don’t know, Embee. I think IF Kate let him move back in over the gargage it would only be for the kids’ sake. Personally, I hope she doesn’t. He’s such a ladies man, surely he can find some other flavor to mooch off of! LOL
It takes a lot these days to raise my eyebrows but the last quote of the ‘article’ managed it.
@FeeBee – I know! What “career” are they talking about? I suspect something in the public eye given the talk of “fans”, but what? No one can stand the guy (and not in a love-to-hate kind of way), he’s not attractive, and has no obvious talent of any kind.
“Wherever he goes, there is an outpouring of love for him from his fans. And there is no doubt that he has a bright and shining career ahead of him.”
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LOL!!! Dayuum, I want some of what they’re smokin’ 😛
I guest this is what happens when you live like a “ROCK STAR” on a Waiters’ salary.
Really what the heck was he thinking when he was running all over town with his “HOs” hosting this and that, instead of lining up work to support his kids?
He pulled the plug on the show, you would think he would have something to fall back on.
Chunk le Funk here should get a job at a nice greasy fast food joint…
How can he be broke, when they were all supposedly making the same amount of money, and the courts put a hold on their joint accounts. If he’s “broke”, then wouldn’t Khate be also?
Not sure I’m buying this. But I am so glad that Tiger knocked them out off of the top news stories. At least something good came out of that debacle
Maybe Haley can take her boobs back?
Maybe it’s a really skeezy attempt by his lawyers to get Kate to have to pay HIM spousal?
Hmmmm….
Bwahahahahahaha!!!
Hey, on a serious tip, In N Out has signs saying they are hiring for $10 an hour. That’s ten bucks an hour more than NONE an hour.
Asshole needs to hit the bricks and get a REAL job like the rest of us dolts.
As sick as I’m getting of the Tiger news, it sure as heck beats having to hear about Kate and/or Jon Gosselin.
“a bright and shining career ahead of him”? What at the local carwash?
Wax on, Wax off.
This is why reality television stars are should be treated like they are legitimate celebrities. They get all blinded by the lights and shiny objects and fail to remember they are liked for their personalities NOT because they are talented(real housewives, Spiedi, the K sisters I am looking at you). The over exposure reveals what we do not see on the cameras and then the world does not like what they see and we are on the next person willing to sell their soul. At least when actors fail in the personality department they have their talent to fall back on.
@wow The difference is even though they made the same amount of money-he spent his share at a much faster rate. He may not have access to the joint account, but he still has access to his own personal one.
I’m thinking that buying the girlfriend a new SUV a couple months ago was NOT the best idea.
No more money, no job offers, no more hoochie mamas and goodbye NY apartment…I see him living up in the garage, cause Kate will accept it for the kids sake.
I’m glad this whole Kate and John nonsense is over. They were two boring people that took up way too much valuable tabloid covers and space which should have been reserved for more interesting gossip being uncovered. I hope they both go away now that they don’t have a show, he’s broke, game over. Now if only the tabloids would stop reporting on these two losers.
I see comments like this every time there is an article about Jon or Kate. If they are so boring then why are you reading the post?
HE IS A BUM!!
Jon must feel stupid for listening to all of the handlers who told him to stop production on “Jon & Kate”. Jon had to have made hundreds of thousands of dollars from paid interviews and personal appearrances before the injunction. What did he spend it on?
Been awhile since that idiot has been in the news. I was thinking the same thing: Tiger Woods is gonna be eatin up a lot of ink so no more room for those no talent losers.
I imagine we’ll see the two of them advertising on Craigslist for asian massages over the garage. He can’t do anything else.
Your 15 minutes is up FAT BOY!! Kate doesn’t want a Deadbeat Dad and Hailey can’t “gold dig” where’s there’s no gold! GET A FREAKIN JOB!! If he hadn’t stopped the show he’d be still living off of his kids!
Wait, stop right there, I just read Jon is going to fight Michael Lohan? Big purse, who will get that, all the lawyers, managers, child support. If jon is so broke then why is he in Utah going skiing? Is this guy for real. What about feeding the kids. What a jerk, did he not realize that he was a nothing before the show, could not get a job and he is nothing now?