{"id":67141,"date":"2023-09-19T21:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/?p=67141"},"modified":"2023-09-19T21:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T21:24:18","slug":"kevin-costners-divorce-timeline-a-roller-coaster-with-an-abrupt-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/celebrities\/kevin-costners-divorce-timeline-a-roller-coaster-with-an-abrupt-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner's Divorce Timeline a Roller Coaster with an Abrupt Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kevin Costner<\/strong> and Christine Baumgartner<\/strong> seemed destined to fight out their divorce for months to come in court — but now that anger-fueled ride’s come to a screeching halt with their settlement … which makes this look-back at how they got here all the more eye-popping.<\/p>\n Going all the way back to early May — when CB first filed<\/strong> to end their marriage — this uncoupling had all the markings of being ugly, starting with the fact her decision to divorce Kevin completely blindsided him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n What proceeded over the next 5 months amounted to one of the nastiest celeb divorces in recent memory … despite the fact they had a prenup in place.<\/p>\n Pretty much from the jump, Christine indicated she had plans to challenge the validity of the prenup — starting with the fact she put up a fight about moving out<\/strong> of their house … even though the prenup required her to get out if she were to divorce him.<\/p>\n After A LOT of back and forth in court and a judge’s ruling … Christine did move out by the court-ordered deadline<\/strong> in late July. Keep in mind, Kevin said he’d already given her over a million bucks to get her own pad.<\/p>\n In addition to the housing drama … there was the acrimonious issue of child support, which had been challenged by Christine since the beginning. At first, she’d asked a judge to make Kevin pay a whopping $248,000\/month<\/strong> to support their 3 teenage kids.<\/p>\n Kevin, of course, scoffed at that<\/strong> … insisting the realistic number was probably closer to $63k\/mo. — and while he had to cough up $129k\/mo as an interim amount, the judge ultimately sided with him on this matter, ruling the $63k was enough to sustain the children.<\/p>\n Amid all this mudslinging and money talk, the Costners went on vacation — 2 different ones, actually … and their kiddos got to enjoy respective trips with Mom and Dad. Christine took them to Hawaii<\/strong> for a week, and then KC flew them out to Aspen<\/strong> for some QT.<\/p>\n Come August, it was back to the lawyers’ table … with both Kevin and Christine sitting for a deposition to settle the issue of whether Christine “understood”<\/strong> the prenup she signed way back before their 2004 wedding … something she and her lawyers argued might not have been totally clear to her.<\/p>\n Kevin and Christine showed up dressed to the nines for that depo … and then testified all over again in court to hash out more points, including money, rumored partners<\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n In the end, a judge sided with Kevin on this as well — saying the prenup was clear, and ordered Christine to pay a little more than $14k to cover Kevin’s attorney fees for litigating this minute detail.<\/p>\n Christine then signaled she wasn’t done nitpicking … asking for more cash from Kevin to cover her attorney fees, which she estimated at $885k.<\/p>\n That was the latest barb just a few days ago … and there appeared to be no end in sight. Then, just this week, Christine and Kevin buried the hatchet in a surprise move.<\/p>\n As we reported … they settled<\/strong>, the terms of which are being kept private for now. While Christine seemed to be taking L after L in court, it sounds like she might’ve clocked a small win in the end — as our sources tell us she walked away with more dough than what she was due under the original terms of their prenup.<\/p>\n And so, that’s that. This was one for the ages, and certainly worth diving into to see all the highs and lows. Talk about a roller coaster, huh?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n