Inside ‘Yellowstone’ creator Taylor Sheridan’s $350M ranch amid spending scandal

nypost.com:

hefty price tag he was charging contributed to the show’s end.The blockbuster series that starred Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser is set to wrap with the second half of season 5 this summer after five years on the air.Sheridan, 52, known as one of Hollywood’s preeminent Western storytellers, has been charging the network a whopping $50,000 per week for his own show to film at his two sprawling ranch properties.Employees on the set were puzzled to learn that Paramount was paying a horse wrangler 1,600 miles away, according to the Wall Street Journal.Back in the show’s production offices in Stevensville, Montana, confusing expenses were piling up, including a time card requesting more than $3,000 from a wrangler named Barbara Stuart, the Journal reported on Friday.“I was surprised to see a timecard for a TX wrangler come through last week even though we are now shooting in Montana,” Mary Jasionowski, the show’s production controller, wrote to Ms.

Stuart, who was also not known to the head of animal handling on set.“I am Taylor Sheridan’s wrangler,” Ms. Stuart wrote back, saying she worked on one of his ranches and prepared his horses for use in filming the show.Paramount and 101 Studios executives, who jointly produced the show, acknowledged that the filmmakers’ projects can be costly — episodes of the “Yellowstone” prequel “1923” run a bill of at least $22 million each — but said they are comfortable with their working relationship.“Taylor’s shows are among our most successful and profitable,” a Paramount spokeswoman told the newspaper.A few days later they would announce “Yellowstone” had come to an end.