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| | Kelly Clarkson has to pay Brandon Blackstock $200K a month in support | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Kelly Clarkson filed for divorce from Brandon Blackstock last summer, in what seemed at the time like a regular old pandemic split. As in, ?wow, now that we?re spending so much time together at home, I realize that I cannot stand you.? The split seemed lowkey at first, and then Brandon asked for $436,000 a month in child support and spousal support. Which was weird because the court had already given Kelly primary physical custody of the kids and the court was seemingly on Kelly?s side when it came to all of the fights about the children and money. Alongside this, we learned that Kelly countersued her husband?s management firm for defrauding her of millions of dollars.
All in all, things were getting messy in a hurry. Four weeks ago, Kelly asked the court to terminate the marriage and declare her legally single before they had worked out their entire divorce settlement. There wasn?t much movement on that, and now we know why their contentious divorce was nearing the end, and the end is not great for Kelly:
Kelly Clarkson is now required to pay her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock nearly $200,000 per month in spousal and child support. A Los Angeles County judge handed down the order Tuesday that Clarkson give Blackstock $150,000 per month in spousal support, as well as $45,601 per month in child support, PEOPLE has learned.
The arrangement means that Blackstock, 43, will receive $195,601 in total from Clarkson each month, or roughly $2.4 million per year. The order also requires the singer to pay $1.25 million towards her estranged husbands attorney fees and costs for their ongoing divorce.
A source previously told PEOPLE that Blackstock had been aiming for more than double the amount in support, requesting that Clarkson pay him $436,000 per month ($301,000 in spousal support and $135,000 in child support).
Clarkson is being represented by celebrity attorney Laura Wasser, who recently launched Its Over Easy. The service helps streamline the divorce process for individuals who might not be able to obtain her services otherwise.
[From People]
I think Kelly got screwed over financially, what do you think? It?s more than likely that the court came up with these numbers because the amount represents a certain percentage of Kelly?s annual earnings, but still. Blackstock and his father mismanaged Kelly?s career, defrauded her financially and now she has to pay her ex $2.4 million a year even though she has primary custody of the kids? And she?s paying a chunk of his legal fees AND back spousal support? I feel like Kelly got massively screwed over.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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| | Will Smith shines as Serena & Venus's dad in the 'King Richard' trailer | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The legend goes that Richard Williams was watching TV one day and he ended up watching a women?s tennis match. He watched until the end, for the trophy presentation and the handing out of the prize-money checks. When he heard the amount of money women?s tennis players were making, he decided right then and there that his daughters were going to learn how to play tennis. He never had any real formal training as a tennis player or coach. He studied the game and studied how to game the game. He came up with a 78-page plan to make his daughters into tennis champions. He took little Venus and little Serena to the cracked, public courts of Compton for hours, teaching them technique, groundstrokes, serves, backhands, movement, everything.
There are other parts to the story, because of course there are. By Venus and Serena?s teenage years, their mom Oracene Price had as much to say about their lives and careers as Richard. Oracene even worked more with Serena when Richard was focused on Venus. Richard was their coach of record for much of their teen years and for much of their 20s Serena only hired Patrick Mouratoglou as her full-time coach in 2012, when she was 30. Richard was also politically savvy, understanding that the white tennis establishment would not welcome Venus and Serena with open arms. He prepared them for that as well, and prepared them to stand up for themselves and to win, win, win. Richard Williams is still alive he was just on a practice court with Venus this month but he is in poor health, having suffered a series of strokes.
I?m still a little bit mad that Mahershala Ali wasn?t cast as Richard, because I think Ali looks so much like a young Richard Williams, and I think Ali would have been fantastic in the role in general. But they went with Will Smith, and if the trailer is any indication, Will did his homework.
I understand why they?re probably not going to address the Nick Bollettieri situation directly, but I hope they capture the essence of what went down. For several years, Serena and Venus were at Bollettieri?s academy in Florida, and Bollettieri seemed to believe he was Venus and Serena?s coach for a time. Richard, ever the hype man, managed to get Venus signed to a major sponsorship and the family had enough money to buy a house and build their own courts, and suddenly there was no more Nick Bollettieri, at least not in Venus and Serena?s professional lives. But that was a significant moment when the Williams family began doing their own thing adjacent to the white tennis establishment.
Anyway, they got a lot of stuff right. The beads! The girls? relationship with their dad. How people didn?t understand how these two little girls from Compton were so good at such a young age.
One of my favorite Nike commercials, which used archival video of Richard coaching Serena:
?One of the greatest honors as an actor is to be able to celebrate someone?s legacy while they?re still here creating it.? Will Smith
The true story of Serena and Venus' father and coach, Richard Williams, is coming this fall. ?#KingRichard | @wbpictures @hbomax pic.twitter.com/jY5olyEyRo
Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) July 28, 2021
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