Your kids, my sister’s kids, kids around me, but those ain’t my kids other peoples kids aren’t my kids so idc. Because I’ll raise mine…
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Kim Kardashian is worth $1.8 billion, and Kanye West still pays her $200,000 a month. He agreed to it five weeks after Adidas dropped him and Forbes cut his fortune from $2 billion to $400 million.
They married in Italy in 2014 and had four children. Kim filed for divorce in February 2021, and it took almost two years to finish.
The fight was never really about her money. They had a prenup, so each of them kept what they had built. The hard part was the kids.
Kanye spent much of 2022 attacking Kim online. He said she was keeping him away from the children and their birthday parties. He even asked the court for the right to question any future husband of hers under oath, and the judge said no.
Then in October he made antisemitic comments, and his business partners started walking away one by one. On October 25 Adidas ended the Yeezy deal. Forbes said that deal alone was worth $1.5 billion and took him off its billionaires list the same day.
A trial was set for December 14, but on November 29 he signed a settlement instead.
Under the deal he pays $200,000 a month in child support, they share custody, and they split private school, college and the kids' security 50/50. Neither of them pays spousal support.
That is $2.4 million a year, about $6,575 a day. And according to Forbes, part of the $400 million he had left was a 5% stake in Skims, the shapewear company Kim built. So part of what still kept him rich was a piece of her business.
Kim stayed quiet until the papers were signed. In the video below she breaks down in tears talking about what raising the kids with him is really like. In the same interview she said that one day her children will thank her for not trashing their dad.
What do four kids actually need $200,000 a month for?
A CBS producer tried to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million over his affairs with his own staff. Letterman handed him the $2 million, then went on his show the next night and told everyone himself.
It started on September 9, 2009. A man left a sealed envelope with Letterman’s driver outside his home in Manhattan. Inside was a document called “Treatment for a Screenplay.”
It was not really a screenplay. It was a threat. Pay up, or the world finds out you slept with women who work for you.
The man behind it was Joe Halderman, a producer on the CBS true-crime show 48 Hours. He had been at the network for 27 years. He wanted $2 million to stay quiet.
Letterman did not pay and hide. He went to the Manhattan district attorney. His lawyer met Halderman, agreed to the deal, and on October 1 handed over a check for $2 million. Halderman deposited it, and the next day he was arrested.
That same week Letterman sat down at his own desk, in front of the cameras, and told the entire story. Then he admitted it was true. He had slept with women on his staff.
There was one more twist. One of those women was his assistant, Stephanie Birkitt, and she had been living with Halderman. The blackmailer was exposing the affair of his own girlfriend’s boss.
In the end the $2 million check was never really his to keep. Halderman pleaded guilty, and got 6 months in jail, 5 years probation and 1,000 hours of community service.
In the video below Letterman tells the whole thing to his own audience, live, before anyone else could.
Smartest way out of a blackmail, or a confession he had no choice but to make?
