Last May, Kevin Costner and his wife of almost two decades, Christine Baumgartner, announced their divorce. A decision that the businesswoman apparently made and that caught the actor by surprise, who trusted that everything would be resolved as best as possible for the good of the couple’s three children, Cayden (15), Hayes (14) and the youngest, Grace (12).
However, the Costners’ divorce is being a pitched battle, despite the fact that the couple signed a very well-tied prenuptial contract in 2004. An agreement that Christine Baumgartner is fighting to annul at all costs, considering it unfair and for what she needs almost a million euros to pay her lawyers, an amount that she has not hesitated to ask of her husband.
According to the TMZ portal, Christine Baumgartner has asked the judge handling her divorce case to force Kevin Costner to pay more than 885,000 dollars (about 823,000 euros, at the exchange rate) so that her lawyers can present their case for annulment of the contract. prenuptial agreement that she signed with the actor before their marriage in 2004.
The interpreter’s legal team, led by the famous divorce lawyer Laura Wasser, has already responded to the businesswoman’s unusual request, calling it “daring” and pointing out that to justify such an amount, her lawyers would have to work no less than 46 days without rest – some 1,106 hours -, according to current payment figures per hour worked, something unthinkable.
For the moment, the judge has rejected all attempts by the actor’s ex-wife to try to invalidate the prenuptial contract, which would give her access to increase the amount she would receive each month. With her fight, the businesswoman is not only losing most of her battles in court against her ex-husband, but she would be receiving less money than she would have gotten if they had reached an agreement.
Just a few months ago, her request for an increase in child support was rejected – she was claiming about $248,000 a month in child support, but it was discovered that it was actually not only related to her children’s expenses, but also included more than $180,000 for plastic surgery expenses, personal training services and luxury vacations for herself.
The businesswoman’s requests would be being rejected, in addition to the request for more money to pay her lawyers, since the protagonist of Yellowstone had already given his wife almost half a million euros to pay them. What’s more, if he managed to take the case to court and lost, Baumgartner would be responsible for returning more than one million euros to the actor.
The couple began their relationship in 1998 and, after a six-year courtship, they married in 2004. Their relationship has been at least idyllic over the last almost two decades, with their three children and very focused on their family life. Only they know the reasons that may have precipitated their divorce; But just a few months ago they were both posing at different events and there was nothing to suspect that things were going wrong between them.
This will be Costner’s second divorce, following his marriage to Cindy Silva, which ended in 1994.