Kevin Costner’s estranged spouse desires the Tin Cup actor to pony up $150K to rent a forensic accountant to comb by way of his huge fortune, RadarOnline.com can solely reveal.
Christine Costner, 49, accused the No Means Out actor of allegedly withholding the monetary particulars of 15 completely different companies he controls because the brutal divorce warfare rages right into a bloody fistfight over baby assist funds.
Christine, who slapped her husband of 18 years with divorce papers in Might, additionally desires the Oscar-winning director to pay for her authorized charges within the David and Goliath courtroom drama, paperwork obtained by RadarOnline.com confirmed.
“Because of the huge distinction in assets accessible to the events, Christine can be requesting that Kevin advance a further $350,000 in lawyer’s charges and $150,000 in forensic prices…” state the courtroom paperwork that point out Christina desires the cash by August 1, 2023.
The 49-year-old purse designer claims the household’s licensed public accountant Francis Shelly has allegedly aligned herself with Costner and is presently ignoring her requests for extra monetary info, the paperwork state.
“Of word is that now we have no element on the 15 enterprise entities during which Kevin reported having a controlling curiosity on the 2021 federal earnings tax return,” she notes. “However we can not wait for extra info as we have to get a baby assist order in place now.”
As RadarOnline.com beforehand solely reported, the divorce drama become an all-out warfare after refused to vacate Costner prized $145 million compound close to Santa Barabara, California – as prescribed by the iron-clad prenup she signed earlier than their 2004 marriage.
The Dances with Wolves actor has accused the mom of his three youngsters of utilizing the home as leverage in the course of the bare-knuckle brawl to nix the pre-marital settlement that solely requires him to pay $38,000 in month-to-month baby assist.
Christina is nonetheless demanding $248K and shockingly revealed a rudimentary unfold sheet of Costner’s 2022 earnings and bills to as graphic proof to point out the Hidden Figures star has sufficient money to correctly assist his youngsters, ages 12, 14 and 16.
The beautiful report confirmed the Yellowstone hunk earned a cool $19.5 million throughout calendar yr 2022 and pocketed $7.6 million in internet earnings after paying off about $12 million in bills. She claims Costner, 68, can simply afford paying $248K and “nonetheless have thousands and thousands of {dollars} left for himself.”
Christine argued the pre-marital settlement didn’t take into account the wants of the kids – and the flamboyant life-style they’d grown accustomed to.
“On the time the Settlement was executed, the events didn’t have youngsters collectively, and subsequently the kids’s wants weren’t contemplated or accounted for,” the paperwork said.
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“Christine understands that in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later, she and the kids should transfer out of the household house. She can not accomplish that at this early stage of the case as a result of she doesn’t have adequate funding to safe housing that may guarantee the kids can preserve related requirements of dwelling within the events’ respective houses.”
“Kevin has repeatedly ignored and tried to deflect from the truth that fulfilling the kids’s wants and sustaining their way of life are paramount issues inside this challenge.”