Outrageous Alimony requests need to end!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/richiediv1.html
Good lordy Lionel. Haven't you learned "It's cheaper to keep her"
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MARCH 2--Five months after filing for divorce from Lionel Richie, the singer's estranged wife has just weighed in with a whopping--and remarkably detailed--demand for at least $300,000 in monthly support payments. According to Diane Richie, 37, the couple has led an "extraordinary extravagant lifestyle" and that she had "no limit on what I could spend," according to the below Los Angeles Superior Court declaration filed last week. The Richies, who wed in December 1996 and have two young children, live in a $40 million Beverly Hills mansion, with its 30 rooms spread over 18,000 square feet. "In addition to nine full time staff members, we also employ people to maintain our plants, detail our cars, care for our pool, groom our dog, maintain our aquarium and a painter for regular touch ups on the house," noted Richie. She also made sure to point out particular monthly expenses that Lionel, 54, needs to cover: clothing, shoes, and accessories ($15,000); dermatology ($3000); laser hair removal ($1000); massages ($600); jewelry ($5000); gifts ($5000); and vitamins ($500). There are plenty of other costs Richie listed--like $20,000 annually for plastic surgery and her nine-year-old son's $125,000 boarding school tuition--but TSG will let you discover those chestnuts. According to Richie, she began dating the pop star in 1984, when they met at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (she was an 18-year-old dancer). Since those teen days, the performer "paid my rent and/or mortgage, purchased automobiles for me, and regularly bought me expensive gifts," recalled
MARCH 2--Five months after filing for divorce from Lionel Richie, the singer's estranged wife has just weighed in with a whopping--and remarkably detailed--demand for at least $300,000 in monthly support payments. According to Diane Richie, 37, the couple has led an "extraordinary extravagant lifestyle" and that she had "no limit on what I could spend," according to the below Los Angeles Superior Court declaration filed last week. The Richies, who wed in December 1996 and have two young children, live in a $40 million Beverly Hills mansion, with its 30 rooms spread over 18,000 square feet. "In addition to nine full time staff members, we also employ people to maintain our plants, detail our cars, care for our pool, groom our dog, maintain our aquarium and a painter for regular touch ups on the house," noted Richie. She also made sure to point out particular monthly expenses that Lionel, 54, needs to cover: clothing, shoes, and accessories ($15,000); dermatology ($3000); laser hair removal ($1000); massages ($600); jewelry ($5000); gifts ($5000); and vitamins ($500). There are plenty of other costs Richie listed--like $20,000 annually for plastic surgery and her nine-year-old son's $125,000 boarding school tuition--but TSG will let you discover those chestnuts. According to Richie, she began dating the pop star in 1984, when they met at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (she was an 18-year-old dancer). Since those teen days, the performer "paid my rent and/or mortgage, purchased automobiles for me, and regularly bought me expensive gifts," recalled
Good lordy Lionel. Haven't you learned "It's cheaper to keep her"
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Originally posted by murbot
Keep her? Just kill her!
No doubt. Where's Tony Soprano's henchmen when you need'em.
In the next paragraphs, when I say "husband" I mean the breadwinner of the family. When I say "wife" I mean the homemaker. The roles can just as well be reversed.
In the event of a divorce, the wife should be entitled to *some* of the husband's money. After all, her work at home has probably contributed to the success of her husband's career, and she has a reasonable expectation that her financial future is dependent on her husband's. (The "shared success" argument)
On the other hand, it isn't fair if the wife walks out after half a year of marriage and demands that the husband must provide for her for the rest of her natural life, at the same level of luxury that the half a year has been.
What would you consider fair laws for divorce and property?
If you want money from a divorse it should be arranged at the wedding.
Pay for their childs boarding school and nothing else.
But, she has to do it at an orphanage and she has to give the speech to each child individually only after hearing them tell their own life stories.
If she can do it, she gets it, and I feel no sorrow for Lionel.
How the hell can you not hate someone for demanding $1000/month for laser hair removal? I am trying, but I just cannot do it.
Where's Trumptman?
Um, yeah...vitamins...that's it.
Powdered if you please, sir.