Kevin Costner Gets More Bad News As Bitter Divorce Battle Continues

The Hollywood star Kevin Costner is presently within the midst of a bitter divorce battle together with his ex-wife Christine Baumgartner, who he was married to from 2004 till she “blindsided” him by submitting for divorce on Could 1. Now, issues have gotten even worse for Costner, as he’s saying that he expects his revenue to drop “dramatically” now that he’s not on the hit present “Yellowstone.”

Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner have filed for divorce after 18 years of marriage. Get the main points. pic.twitter.com/iFIpP4oU2G

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Costner’s Revenue To Drop ‘Dramatically’

Daily Mail reported that Costner, 68, is allegedly the best paid actor on tv, incomes $1.3 million per episode for the final season of “Yellowstone.” Baumgartner, 49, is claiming that after showing in eight episodes final yr, Costner earned $24.5 million from “Yellowstone” and different sources.

Costner, nonetheless, is saying that his revenue will drop “dramatically” now that he has left “Yellowstone” in order that he could make his four-film Western epic Horizon.

“I’ll earn considerably much less in 2023 than I did in 2022,” he said in court docket papers. “It is because I’m not beneath contract for Yellowstone, the principal supply of my revenue final yr.”

“The fastened quantity, ‘pay or play’ and episodic compensation I obtained has ceased,” he continued. “Now, any compensation I earn from ‘Yellowstone’ will derive solely from my back-end contractual participation rights. The newest report from the producer for Yellowstone reveals I’m not now owed any participation cash (though I’ve disputed this). Up to now in 2023 I’ve but to obtain any participation compensation from ‘Yellowstone.’”

Costner went on to say that he “doesn’t anticipate being on location for not less than the remainder of 2023,” regardless that the second half of season 5 of “Yellowstone” is ready to start filming subsequent month.

“I don’t anticipate that I might be on location for not less than the remainder of 2023,” he mentioned within the court docket papers, including that he might be returning to California this month to be with the three kids he shares with Baumgartner.

A decide has made a short lived ruling in Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner’s divorce proceedings. pic.twitter.com/284rEecLh7

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‘Yellowstone’ Ending

Days after Baumgartner filed for divorce on Could 1, Daily Mail reported that the tip of “Yellowstone” was introduced by Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Showtime/MTV Leisure Studios, who additionally revealed {that a} sequel sequence starring Matthew McConaughey might be changing it.

“‘Yellowstone’ has been the cornerstone on which now we have launched a whole universe of worldwide hits — from ‘1883’ to ‘Tulsa King,’ and I’m assured our sequel might be one other large hit, due to the good artistic thoughts of Taylor Sheridan [the show’s creator] and our unbelievable casts who deliver these reveals to life,” McCarthy mentioned.

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Costner’s Divorce Battle

It was Baumgartner who filed for divorce on Could 1, itemizing the previous couple’s date of separation as being April 11. Costner responded by means of his consultant, who launched an announcement saying that “circumstances past his management have transpired” that led to this divorce. A supply near Costner mentioned that the divorce “was not something that [Costner] wished or sought, and if he might change the state of affairs, he would.”

Kevin Costner and his estranged spouse Christine Baumgartner are in the course of a authorized battle over her residing state of affairs amid their divorce. pic.twitter.com/pdef6cLFhb

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Although Costner and Baumgartner signed a prenuptial settlement once they married again in 2004 dictating that she was entitled to $1.4 million in the event that they cut up, she has been combating for more cash ever since she filed for divorce on Could 1.

This divorce has clearly develop into very messy for everybody concerned, however for the sake of the previous couple’s three kids, we will solely hope that Costner and Baumgartner are in a position to come to some form of amicable settlement shifting ahead.