Kevin Costner's first spouse obtained an $80 million payout after they break up in 1994, making it one of the vital costly Hollywood divorces in historical past. Right here's why his second spouse received't get wherever close to that.

• Kevin Costner’s first spouse, Cindy Silva, obtained an $80 million payout after their divorce in 1994.
• His second spouse, Christine Baumgartner, is now within the strategy of divorcing the “Yellowstone” star.
• Nevertheless, Baumgartner will not get wherever close to the identical quantity. Here is why.

Kevin Costner and his spouse Christine Baumgartner are getting divorced after 18 years of marriage. It will likely be the second divorce for the 68-year-old actor and it is already proving to be tense.

Nevertheless, the prenuptial settlement the “Yellowstone” star has in place this time round means Baumgartner will not get a windfall like Costner’s first spouse, who obtained $80 million after their divorce.

Costner and his first spouse, Cindy Silva, met after they had been each college students at California State College within the mid-70s and married shortly after they graduated in 1978 earlier than splitting in 1994.

In the course of the course of their 16-year marriage, Costner grew to become certainly one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors, starring in field workplace successes like “Area of Desires,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” and “The Bodyguard.” In 1991, his directorial debut, “Dances in Wolves,” took residence the Oscars for finest image and finest director, in addition to 5 different Oscars. In brief, Costner was using excessive and raking in hundreds of thousands of {dollars} by the point he and Silva divorced.

Based on Forbes, of their settlement, Silva — with whom Costner shares three kids between the ages of 35 and 39 — was awarded $80 million, a considerable chunk of the actor’s internet value on the time. It was one of many costliest celeb divorces, seemingly as a result of the actor had not signed a prenup — a doc that might’ve protected his belongings and funds.

There is no doubt that Costner has financially recovered from the blow within the virtually three many years which have handed since that divorce. His function in Paramount Community’s “Yellowstone” has made him one of the vital well-paid actors on tv (in response to Selection, he is incomes $1.3 million per episode) and he is used his personal cash to again lots of his movie initiatives, together with the upcoming four-part movie sequence, “Horizon.”

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Costner discovered a tricky lesson due to his costly 1994 divorce 

However, for Costner, his 1994 break up taught him a tough monetary lesson that he did not need to repeat when he married Baumgartner. The 2 — who’ve a 19-year age distinction — met on a golf course within the early Nineteen Nineties, started relationship in 1998, and married in 2004. 

“I used to be married earlier than, and upon separation, I discovered myself with no residence base and unable to reside in my own residence,” Costner stated in courtroom papers filed June 8 that Insider has considered. “I by no means wished this to occur once more. Due to the character of my work, I’m ceaselessly out of city; it’s due to this fact notably essential to me that when I’m residence, I’ve a house to go to.”

“Thus, when Christine and I started discussing marriage in 2003, I made it clear to her that I might not marry once more with out readability that my separate property residences would stay mine to reside in it doesn’t matter what occurred in our marriage,” the courtroom submitting continued. 

Earlier this week, Insider reported that Costner had complained to the choose of their divorce case that Baumgartner refused to maneuver out of his $145 million compound off the Santa Barbara coast in California, although their prenuptial settlement stipulated that she needed to transfer out inside 30 days in the event that they divorced. In her divorce submitting, Baumgartner listed their date of separation as April 11.

“Christine has taken the place that she won’t transfer out of Kevin’s separate property residence until and till Kevin agrees to numerous monetary calls for,” Costner’s courtroom papers stated. 

Via his lawyer, the famed divorce legal professional Laura Wasser, the 68-year-old actor alleges that he is already ponied up $1 million to Baumgartner towards a brand new place, and pledged to pay her mortgage, insurance coverage, and taxes on the brand new home for a 12 months.

Per courtroom papers, he gave her a further $200,000 within the early years of their marriage below the phrases of their prenup. 

Costner additionally needs joint custody of their teenage kids

As for his or her teenage kids — Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13 — he stated in courtroom docs that he is pushing for joint custody and that they might not be largely affected by their mom’s ouster.

“As a result of the youngsters will likely be spending at the very least half of their time at my residence, they won’t be disrupted by Christine’s imminent transfer,” Costner stated within the June 8 declaration. “Christine and I’ve been engaged on a summer season schedule to make sure that the youngsters have a clean transition between our two properties.” 

A choose hasn’t but dominated on Costner’s request to power Baumgartner out. Insider has contacted the attorneys for Baumgartner and Costner however hasn’t obtained a response.

Costner’s divorce comes amid some drama in his skilled life too.

Deadline reported in February {that a} behind-the-scenes feud between the actor and the “Yellowstone” cocreator Taylor Sheridan over taking pictures schedules was holding up manufacturing on the present’s fifth season.

Whereas Costner has but to deal with the claims, it was introduced in Could that the drama can be ending later this 12 months with the conclusion of its fifth and last season.