DiabloWags said:
Kevin Costner's estranged wife gives new meaning to TAKING HIM TO THE CLEANERS!
Costner accused Christine of funding her legal services in their divorce on his dime.
lol
Happen to see Costner last night at dinner - he didn't seem to be in bad spirits. I guess when you are worth $400M, the fact that your wife of 2 decades and mother of 3 of your 6 kids wants a few million bucks a year probably isn't that much of a problem.
Obviously I don't know anything about their personal situation, but it seems weird that people are smearing his wife.
Costner has never had a reputation as a nice guy and what he's offered his wife is pretty far from the way they were living. He's asked her to move out of their $145M house and offered her ~$450k per year in support which is what he spends on gardening for just one of his homes. It's also what he spends on the 2 beach clubs he belongs to. But on the plus side, he's incredibly generous with charity - $36k reported last year which is almost as much as he spends on his golf dues.
Her request might seem extravagant to normal people, but by almost any measure the lifestyle she and their 3 kids became accustomed to was even more extravagant. On the other hand, maybe this will give the kids a lesson in humility that they otherwise never would have had.
I'm not sure why this is so newsworthy though - rich people get divorced all the time, although I suppose they do a better job keeping this stuff private.