Linda Evangelista Wants $46k Child Support
The question of how much 4-year-old Augustin James is going to get for support is being fought over in court now. The child’s mother, supermodel Linda Evangelista, is demanding a monthly sum of $46,000 to be stumped up by the father, François-Henri Pinault.
Evangelista, 46, was impregnated by Pinault at the time the latter started to date his current wife Salma Hayek. The 44-year-old actress had a relationship with Pinault since some time in 2006 and married him in 2009 after a short split. As soon as it surfaced this summer that Pinault was the father of Evangelista’s son, the supermodel filed for child support in Manhattan Family Court.
Pinault, a 49-year-old French businessman, has two children from an earlier marriage that dissolved in 2004 and a daughter in his current marriage, Valentina, to turn 4 next month.
William Beslow, lawyer for Evangelista, laid a claim for $80,000 per year to provide for a 24-hour nanny for the boy and further $175,000 per year for drivers hired from retired police detectives. He accused Pinault of “sitting back, paying zero” in his address to court.
The defendant’s lawyer in his turn reminded the court that Miss Evangelista could be in no way regarded as unable to support her child, with a $8-million-plus worth and last year’s income coming up to $1.8 million. Challenging the items, he went on to question the necessity for a 24-hour nanny, saying that it looked as if the mother did not mean to spend time with her child.
The New York Post reported the judge commenting that these huge sums may really be going towards raising the child in view of the current costs of Augustin’s spotlight lifestyle. Another aspect to be taken in consideration is Evangelista’s working time that can be as long as 16 hours a day, the model testified.
Still the judge scratched off the list monthly vacation expenses that ran to $7,500.
Nevertheless, according to Matthew Troy, support magistrate who will be mediating the decision, it may well become “the largest support order in the history of the family court.”
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