Kevin Costner’s divorce from second spouse Christine is getting messier by the minute.

Particulars in regards to the often personal actor and director’s private life and funds are being revealed amid the bitter cut up. In line with court docket paperwork obtained by Yahoo, the Yellowstone star’s estranged spouse says he is value “at the very least $400,000,000,” so she’s preventing the phrases of their 2004 prenuptial settlement, which has given her a $1 million-plus payout for the reason that cut up. Christine, 49, is looking for $248K a month in baby assist alone from Kevin, 68, to begin. She additionally claims he “disregarded” her enter by breaking the information of the divorce to their three kids with out her throughout a “10-minute Zoom name” house.

Christine — who filed for divorce on Might 1 after 18 years of marriage, itemizing the separation date at April 11 — mentioned in a declaration filed June 16 that she was “involved” the kids would discover out in regards to the divorce earlier than they may inform them. She mentioned it was essential to her to inform the youngsters in individual collectively. Christine claimed she instructed Kevin this and shared articles about “the significance of speaking to the kids as a united entrance.” Nonetheless, she claimed that Kevin “disregarded my proposal to do what I felt was proper primarily based on analysis and my relationship with the kids. As an alternative, he insisted that he had the precise to inform them that we have been getting divorced ‘first’ and inform them privately ‘with out me current.'”

Christine mentioned, “From his lodge room in Las Vegas, Kevin instructed our three kids” Cayden Wyatt, 16, Hayes Logan, 14, and Grace Avery, 13, “that we have been getting divorced over a 10-minute Zoom name with out me current. I’m nonetheless confused by his motivation to do that by way of a really quick Zoom session, particularly since he was planning on being house 5 days later. He additionally might have simply come house from Las Vegas to have the dialog in individual.”

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Extra particulars from the court docket paperwork…

Christine suggests she’ll be difficult their prenup

Christine, who was once a purse designer, isn’t employed and has “no private earnings,” she says. Her property embody a checking account with “lower than $50,000” from earlier than their marriage and an account Kevin arrange for her after they have been married, per their prenup. Kevin put two funds of $100,000 into the account (after they married and on their first marriage ceremony anniversary), per the prenup, and it is grown in financial savings to $450,000. After she filed for divorce, he deposited $1 million into the account, additionally per their prenup, so she will be able to transfer out of the properties he owned going into the wedding. Nonetheless, she says she will not contact that cash as a result of she thinks if she does, Kevin “can argue that I’ve waived my proper to problem the Premarital Settlement. I can’t make this concession” and “don’t settle for fee” as she apparently seeks a bigger payout.

She needs $248K monthly in baby assist

Christine says her objective post-split is to “arrange an acceptable separate family that’s at the very least considerably commensurate with the kids’s accustomed way of life.” To take action, she wants the $248K in assist and to have Kevin pay 100% of the kids’s personal college tuition, charges for his or her extracurricular actions and all well being care bills (together with medical, dental, therapeutic and orthodontic).

“I perceive that guideline baby assist primarily based on Kevin’s earnings in 2022 could be $152,681 monthly, she acknowledges. Nonetheless, “the quantity wanted to keep up the kids’s present way of life is $332,264 monthly, which is 60% of what our household spent. This may occasionally appear to be so much, however that is primarily based on precise figures” from their 2022 earnings and bills.

She additionally needs $500,000 in authorized charges by Aug. 1

Due their huge variations in assets, she requests that Kevin pay a further $350,000 in lawyer’s charges and $150,000 in forensic prices to her lawyer earlier than August 1.

She will not transfer out till Kevin commits to paying “acceptable” baby assist

Whereas he has mentioned their prenup states she should transfer out of his pre-marital property inside 30 days of a divorce submitting (with him giving her $1 million towards housing), and he or she claims to be “been prepared to maneuver out,” she will not go till Kevin is “prepared to decide to paying an acceptable quantity of kid assist.” She mentioned whereas Kevin has “continued to pay all of our bills since separation” — together with $95,000 in lawyer and accounting charges — she claims he is “achieved a variety of issues to make it harder for me to pay for issues, and there’s no assure he’ll proceed to pay these bills going ahead till an settlement is in place.”

She estimates Kevin to be value $400 million

The Academy Award winner’s funds are detailed and — no shock — he’s very, very wealthy. “Though we’ve not achieved formal discovery, we imagine that Mr. Costner’s web value is in extra of $400,000,000 and his current reported earnings is in extra of $19,000,000 per 12 months,” her attorneys state. It lists Kevin’s “common month-to-month money circulation” as $1,536,808.

He made $19,517,064.32 in 2022

Kevin’s accountant supplied his earnings for final 12 months. Highlights embody his Tig Movies — behind tasks together with Dances with Wolves, Wyatt Earp and The Bodyguard — pulling in $10.2 million. Their 160-acre Aspen property, the place the couple married, introduced in $2,312,458, whereas a visitor home on the Seashore Membership compound that they rented — to a tenant who denied being the “different man” simply days in the past — paid them $503,000. In the meantime, his shares put $5,647,000 of their checking account and an unspecified “inheritance” gave them $454,803. She notes in her declaration that “most of our houses are owned with none debt.” (Minus the property he mortgaged to fund his movie mission Horizon: An American Saga.)

Christine notes, “I understand that our way of life is extraordinary. I respect how very blessed we’re to dwell this fashion. It’s essential to not solely to offer a heat and comfy house for our kids however to additionally educate them household values and gratitude.”

Their bills in 2022 have been $6,645,285

They personal a number of luxurious properties and shell out thousands and thousands to keep up them. Their Aspen property alone prices $1,964,294 in repairs. (They pay a rancher $91,999, $21,807 for spa providers and $19,576.72 for “cleansing.”) The Seashore Membership compound in Carpinteria, Calif., price $1,408,180. (Of that, $448,446 was paid in gardening prices, $12,780 in personal safety inside the gated neighborhood and $10,800 for pool upkeep.)

They’ve a home supervisor, an individual who assists with grocery buying and meal preparation, a housekeeper who assists with cleansing and laundry. They’re additionally members at “a number of” nation golf equipment.

“As well as … our household travels a number of instances per 12 months … [to] trip within the Caribbean and Hawaii, and journey to Aspen a number of instances per 12 months, often in the course of the winter and summer time” with household and mates becoming a member of them. It is famous their personal airplane prices are “apparently paid by way of different entities managed by Kevin.”

Their household house is value an estimated $100 million

Kevin owned their Seashore Membership Street compound in Carpinteria, Calif., previous to them marrying, nevertheless it has expanded over time. The compound is now composed of three houses and two extra tons, alongside the water. The primary home is roughly 5,000 sq. toes with “4 bedrooms, an infinity pool overlooking the seaside and ocean, a subterranean artwork room and surf storage.” There is a visitor home with a gymnasium, basketball court docket, pergola for eating, an out of doors “lounge,” a fire-pit and hen coop. There’s one other visitor home that Kevin makes use of for movie modifying, which the just lately rented it for $65K monthly to actual property investor Daniel Starr (who denied having an affair with Christine). The compound additionally boasts two extra tons they use only for outside house.

“Given the distinctive location and attributes of our compound, the mixed worth of our 5 properties is probably going in extra of $100 million,” she writes in her declaration.

They’ve a second waterfront Carpinteria property value “roughly $50M to $80M”

Additionally they personal a 17-acre property half a mile down the seaside, which they purchased and deliberate to construct a dream house on however later modified their thoughts, deciding to renovating the seaside compound as a substitute. They thought of promoting it just a few years in the past, however modified their minds. Costner mentioned just lately mentioned he mortgaged the ranch for his newest movie mission.

She says Kevin was as soon as provided $250 million for his or her Aspen property

The Aspen property, which Kevin additionally owned earlier than they have been married, is “really distinctive,” Christine says. It is 10 minutes from the city heart however “surrounded by a nationwide forest that can not be developed.” The property has a number of houses and two lakes, they usually lease it “for $250,000 per week in the course of the excessive season.” She mentioned they’ve a fleet of “a dozen ATVs and snowmobiles” for the youngsters to experience.

Christine says she met Kevin “on the golf course on the Alisal Ranch after I was 18”

That was round 1992, when he was nonetheless married to his first spouse, school sweetheart Cindy, with whom he shares three kids. He was divorced in 1994 — amid rumors of infidelity whereas making Waterworld, leading to a reported $80 million payout to his ex — after which he had a baby with Bridget Rooney in 1996. Six years after they first met, Christine mentioned she and the Tin Cup star performed “our first recreation of golf … began relationship shortly thereafter.” They have been collectively for twenty-four years.

In his personal declaration, Kevin says that he established a prenup as a result of after his divorce from Cindy, he was pushed out of their house and felt displaced. So it was essential so as to add a clause stating she must depart their house 30 days after a divorce submitting.

She says she raised the youngsters and “inspired” Kevin to “dwell his goals”

Christine says she “traveled the world in personal planes, stayed in luxurious resorts and personal houses” with the “good-looking” and “charming” film star after they obtained collectively. Whereas he is “typically on location for roughly 4 months at a time all year long,” she’s made it her precedence “to deal with elevating our household.” She says the “kids are very hooked up to me and are accustomed to my hands-on involvement of their day by day lives.” She drives them locations, cooks, helps with homework, indicators them up for extracurricular actions, surfs and performs board video games with them. Nonetheless, she notes that it is “essential for our youngsters to remain related with their dad” and he or she’s “agreed to a joint custody parenting association.”

She goes on to say she’s “inspired Kevin to put on many hats and dwell his goals, even when that meant spending time away from our household.” Along with appearing and course, that features touring together with his band and beginning different enterprise ventures. “I by no means questioned the time or dedication it took for him to do what he cherished,” she writes.

She accuses Kevin of public assaults

“I’ve averted being public in regards to the causes for our divorce,” she wrote. Nonetheless, she needs it to be clear that, “I didn’t stress Kevin to depart the Yellowstone present,” amid his departure forward of the ultimate episodes of the Paramount collection. “Kevin’s public assaults on me are dangerous for our household. I imagine they’re meant to stress me to maneuver out with no short-term baby assist settlement in place.”

There may be already a trial date set in Superior Courtroom of California, County of Santa Barbara starting on Nov. 27. The very subsequent step is a case administration convention on July 5 to take a look at the validity and enforceability of the prenup.

The paperwork observe that Kevin, who returns to California this month after making the second a part of Horizon in Utah, has a long-planned trip scheduled with the couple’s children in British Columbia in mid-July.