Kevin Costner Reportedly Can’t Afford Child Support Demands If He Leaves ‘Yellowstone’

A period aft Kevin Costner‘s wife, Christine Baumgartner, filed for divorce and Paramount confirmed that Yellowstone would end aft Season 5 (amid play implicit Costner’s filming schedule), the 68-year-old histrion reportedly claimed that helium can’t hold to Christine’s demands for $248,000 a month successful kid support. “I volition gain substantially little successful 2023 than I did successful 2022. This is due to the fact that I americium nary longer nether declaration for Yellowstone, the main root of my income past year,” Costner reportedly said successful documents obtained by Page Six.

Costner reportedly called the petition “astonishing” and said that his soon-to-be ex-wife’s “assessment of his finances was inaccurate arsenic his net are ‘variable and tin alteration rather dramatically’ each year,” per Page Six. He reportedly said that helium can’t “afford to wage those amounts and wage my surviving and concern expenses without liquidating assets” and that his woman said she “understood” that the remainder of 2023 would beryllium “a hard year, financially.”

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This reported filing is the latest volley successful the messy divided betwixt Baumgartner, 49, and Costner. A time earlier Page Six published this caller allegation, the outlet reported that Costner’s forensic accountant claimed that Christine is seeking the near-$250k for herself and not their 3 kids —Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and 13-year-old Grace. Costner’s campy claimed that his ex spent implicit $100,000 connected cosmetic country procedures and that the $52,000 helium pays a period was “reasonable.”

Around that time, Daily Mail ran a report claiming they obtained the tribunal documents that broke down the Costners’ spending habits. ” “As acceptable distant above, the magnitude needed to support the children’s current lifestyle is $332,264 per month, which is 60 percent of what our household spent,” claimed Christine. The reported documents claimed that they spent implicit $830k connected gifts, astir $22k connected spa visits, and $25k connected vessel expenses during the twelvemonth 2022. She besides claimed that, excluding taxes, Costner earned adjacent to $20 cardinal past year, with the household spending $6.645 cardinal connected assorted expenses.

Kevin, Christine, and their children (Broadimage/Shutterstock)

With the events happening concurrently, Christine reportedly clarified – successful the documents obtained by DM – that she wasn’t the crushed for Kevin’s departure from Yellowstone (which subsequently led to the extremity of the series.) “I person avoided being nationalist astir the reasons for our divorce,” Christine reportedly said successful the filings. “I person done this to support our family’s privacy. I did not unit Kevin to permission the Yellowstone show.”

Costner reportedly clashed with the show’s producers implicit shooting schedules. Kevin supposedly lone wanted to sprout for 50 days for the archetypal portion of the play and 1 much week for the remainder of Season 5. Kevin’s lawyer dismissed these reports arsenic “an implicit lie.”

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