Jaime King’s estranged husband, Kyle Newman, claims she’s not paying her court-mandated baby and spousal help leaving him “in dire straits.”
In court docket paperwork obtained by Yahoo Leisure, the Fanboys director says his actress and mannequin ex, from whom he cut up in Might 2020, is 9 months behind in help. Per their settlement established earlier this 12 months, King is to pay at the least $429 in baby help and $1,000 in spousal help every month. She hasn’t and Newman, who shares sons James, 9, and Leo, 7 with King, claims he is broke in consequence.
“Jaime has traditionally been the breadwinner of this household whereas Kyle’s profession as a author and director was placed on maintain in order that Kyle could possibly be the stay-at-home mum or dad,” the declaration says, citing King’s many roles on TV (Coronary heart of Dixie) and in movie (Sin Metropolis, Pearl Harbor). “They lived an upper-class way of life, dwelling in and reworking their former household residence within the Trousdale Estates part of Beverly Hills, they drove luxurious automobiles, traveled to unique locations and in addition repeatedly employed a number of full-time nannies to assist care for his or her youngsters.”
Newman — who welcomed one other baby with girlfriend Cynthia Nabozny in 2021 — claims King “has refused to pay … baby or spousal help in any respect, leaving Kyle and their youngsters in dire straits. Whereas Jaime nonetheless has a number of nannies assist her look after the kids Kyle has not been in a position to afford childcare … and has fallen deeply into debt, together with having to withdraw funds from his retirement account simply to fulfill his month-to-month bills. Kyle additionally has appreciable bank card debt and owes cash to relations.”
Their present help schedule — which additionally contains 26 % of King’s wage if she earns over $175,344 per 12 months (below the Ostler/Smith order) — was applied in April and he is nonetheless not been paid, he claims. Additional, he alleges that King “utterly drained” retirement accounts they shared of over $500,000. She additionally listed the household dwelling on the market for $2.8 million with out Newman’s data or consent, and the proceeds of roughly $1.5 million at the moment are frozen in escrow.
Whereas Newman has resumed working as a director and is attempting to re-establish his profession, he cannot afford his $6,000 lease or cowl baby care prices. Additionally, his authorized charges proceed to develop — and claims that is because of King “partaking in unhealthy religion custody litigation,” together with continuously altering her attorneys and submitting “baseless” court docket motions. He additionally claimed King initially tried to promote their household dwelling and obtain solely $75,000 from the gross sales in an effort to maintain Newman from getting cash.
He alleges that King is refusing to reveal her revenue earnings, so he has no concept how a lot she is definitely making. Nevertheless, he notes her lead position and producer title in Netflix’s Black Summer season in 2021 resulted in a $616,000 paycheck alone. That 12 months, her movie Out of Loss of life with Bruce Willis and Code Title Banshee with Antonio Banderas have been launched.
Whereas that is all being sorted out, Newman desires $700,000 from the home sale to pay for his authorized charges. Additionally, he desires King to be sanctioned within the quantity of $50,000.
King and Newman have been married for 12 years when King filed for divorce in Might 2020. She additionally filed a home violence prevention petition and an emergency movement associated to baby custody and visitation, in addition to a short lived restraining order. Newman filed for sole custody of their sons in November of that 12 months. They’ve since been battling over the help in addition to custody and visitation.
A rep for King has not but responded to Yahoo’s request for remark.
