Seeing the news these two days, the famous actor Robert De Niro is said to have been very poor recently, in order to pay his ex-wife Grace Hightower sky-high child support, live a luxurious life, the cash on hand is almost out of flow.
It was his lawyer, Caroline Krauss, who, in the face of a Manhattan judge at an online hearing on Friday, painted a scary picture of an old drama bone about to die:
"Mr. De Niro is 77 years old, and while he loves acting, he shouldn't have continued to work at the amazing pace he has now. When will it stop when he has to shoot a scene, working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week to satisfy Ms. Haightower's desire for Stella McCartney? If he got sick one day, everything would be over. ”
The Septuagenarian Emperor did not dare to retire in order to fill his ex-wife's material desires, did he feel quite miserable?
The woman's lawyer was also prepared: Grace Hightower's lawyer, Kevin McDonough, argued that de Niro's alimony payments to Grace had been decreasing since filing for divorce in 2018, from $375,000 a month to $100,000 a month, most recently.
"Mr. De Niro is thinking about forcing his family to leave their long-term home while spending money on his own consumption."
Both sides are online at the same time, De Niro is the phone connection, grace Hightower is the video connection.
So did Grandpa De Niro have money or no money? It starts at the beginning.
Robert De Niro had two marriages, the first of which was with actress ex-wife Diahne Abbott for 12 years, and the two divorced in 1988.
Grace Hightower, who became famous as Lady De Niro, is itself a typical story of crossing classes by marriage.
According to the information, Grace Hightower is from Mississippi, born in poverty, from a young age to support herself and her family, because she likes to travel, she worked as a flight attendant of Universal Airlines, settled in Paris and London, worked as a fund trader and restaurant waiter.
In 1987, she worked at the upscale Chinese restaurant Mr. Chow's fate changed when he met De Niro, who was 12 years older than himself, and began dating him, and the two married in 1997 after ten years of separation.
Grace is a board member of the New York Women's Foundation and the New York Public Schools Foundation, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Perelman Women's Heart Health Advisory Committee and the International Women's Coffee Alliance, and has received numerous institutional recognitions, including the American Cancer Society in New York City.
Attending the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, Grace was a guest on the Old Rice project Fashion For Relief, walking the catwalk with Jane Fonda.
Of African descent, she founded the coffee brand Grace Hightower & Coffees of Rwanda in 2013 to improve local life by promoting Rwandan coffee internationally.
His spare time is also quite moist, and he even made cameo appearances as an actor and singer, starred in the 2009 "Precious" that I liked very much, and also served as the lead singer of one of the original songs.
Niu Jie also made a cameo appearance as a social worker, and it is rare to be almost photogenic, and everyone remembers the cutting.
The benefits of running themselves diligently in this way are also quite large, and It is reported that Grace himself has a net worth of $16 million.
De Niro has 6 children, and ex-wife Abbott has the eldest son, Raphael, a former actor and now a New York property manager, 42 years old.
He also adopted Abbott's previous daughter, Drena De Niro, 47.
And Grace's first child, Elliot, born in 1998, is an autistic.
In addition to the three children above, his twin sons Julian and Aaron (whose birth mother is unknown) born in 1995 and his youngest daughter Helen, born in 2011, are both surrogates (the mother is Grace).
In their 21-year marriage to Grace, the two did not divorce for the first time.
After only 2 years of marriage, they divorced in 1999, with Grace accusing De Niro of cheating and abusing drugs, and De Niro saying that Grace was capricious.
The story goes to no one expected that De Niro suffered from prostate cancer in 2003 and underwent surgery and treatment for prostate cancer, perhaps because the pain gave him a new sense of life, in 2004, the two reread the marriage vows and announced their reunion.
But the compound is not unconditional, the two signed a prenuptial agreement this time, and it has become the focus of the divorce lawsuit debate today.
In November 2018, Page Six was the first to report on the breakdown of their relationship, and a month later De Niro formally filed for divorce.
As for the reason for the second divorce, there was gossip at the time that it was because of the different concepts of zz, Grace supported Trump, De Niro, everyone understands. De Niro said in a statement through People Weekly: "Grace and I have two beautiful children, our relationship is entering a difficult, constructive transition period, as a good mother, I respect Grace, and in the next part of our role as a partner parent, I want everyone to respect our privacy." ”
According to the prenuptial agreement that year, if the two divorced later, De Niro would have to buy a $6 million apartment, sell the Manhattan $20 million apartment, split the proceeds in half, pay another $500,000 in cash, and pay another $1 million a year in alimony.
The $20 million mansion refers to a 6,000-square-foot, five-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West Road that the two moved into in 2014.
It sounds like a lot of money, but Grace believes that De Niro should give half of his $500 million fortune, so she issued six consecutive subpoenas asking the judge to thoroughly examine De Niro's financial records for 15 years.
Grace's attorney, Allan Mantel, told the judge that since 2004, De Niro has made $300 million by participating in 35 business investments and starring in 38 films.
De Niro's business investments, stakes in the upscale restaurant chain Nobu, Tribeca Grill, the 88-room Greenwich Hotel and Canal Productions — the bulk of his $500 million fortune — Grace should own half of them, the woman's lawyers believe.
In addition, De Niro owns a 32-hectare (78-acre) estate in Gardiner, New York, as well as properties in Tribeca, New York, the small town of New Paltz in Ulster County, New York, and Montauk on Long Island.
The feeling of being cramped and stripped of his bones was probably uncomfortable, and de Niro covered his face with two newspapers when he left the courtroom in April 2019, and a reporter asked "What do you want to say?" De Niro replied with a meaningful smile: "Yeah, 'Go f–k yourself'?" Then get in the car and leave.
First of all, there is the ex-wife's unrelenting pursuit of his property, and then there is a sequel to the materialistic desires of the two sides that accuse each other.
This time, De Niro's lawyers took out the epidemic card, and Krauss told the judge that Nobu and the Greenwich Hotel had been closed for months because of the epidemic and had almost no income, of which Nobu lost $3 million in April and $1.87 million in May, for which De Niro had to borrow money from business partners.
"For De Niro, if everything starts to get better this year, he's lucky to make $7.5 million this year."
Grace's lawyer noted that De Niro has spent years renovating his mansion in Montauk, renting a helicopter every Sunday for brunch in Connecticut and flying to Florida or elsewhere to visit his friends on a private jet.
"Even spending $1,500 on first class isn't good enough for De Niro — he'd rather spend $50,000 a weekend renting a private jet."
De Niro's lawyer went on to point out that Grace's monthly credit card bill was as high as $215,000 and her monthly cash expenses were $160,000.
The woman's lawyer also exposed that De Niro spent $450,000 renting a house in Amagansett in the summer of 2019, $150,000 on a Thanksgiving holiday, and $1 million for adult children in 2019 and 2020, "which is enough to prove that he is not poor."
The man's lawyer went on to complain that Grace spent $1.2 million in a boutique store: "She likes to buy Dolce and Gabbana, Stella McCartney, Etro, Manolo Blahnik... The list is long, long. ”
Jewelry was also bought, and in the past three years, two pieces of jewelry worth $700,000 and $1.2 million were bought.
"It's an exaggeration, and De Niro made it clear that she couldn't spend it that way."
I checked it myself, and De Niro was reported to owe $6.4 million in taxes in 2015, and the year of tax arrears was 2013. Forbes reported at the time that this little money should not be much for De Niro, who is worth $200 million, especially since the tax arrears led to de Niro's property being taxed and seized, and it didn't take long for him to make up for the taxes, interest and fines.
According to the latest report in the New York Daily News, de Niro's income from the next two films will be used to pay his $18.25 million income tax from 2018 to 2019.
The fact that two films can make so much money shows that De Niro is paid a lot, and his film in Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" is paid a friendship price of $5 million.
I don't earn a lot, so does my ex-wife spend too much?
But anyone who has seen the top rich reality shows in Europe and the United States, as far as "Beverly's Wife" and close to "Brilliant Empire", can probably spy a little bit of the top class's splurge life, desire is endless, there will always be "good things" that you can't afford.
The Versailles-style dispute between the two sides could not be seen by even the judge, and Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper put it this way: "The consumption listed by both sides is extraordinary and unimaginable to 99.9999% of the world's people." I hope these two people will divorce quickly, whether it is Ms. Haightower or Mr. De Niro, they are richer than anyone else on the planet. ”
Having never been hit by huge wealth, it is difficult for me to imagine the life of a drunken fan, but I just sighed: Still husband and wife, yours is mine, and it is clear after one shot and two scatters. "What you can't get is always in turmoil", but men don't want to move a penny, this is not, De Niro wants to sell most of his property.
What should be fought for still has to be fought for, but it is also quite boring to think about, right?
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