Kevin Costner Claims He Can’t Afford to Pay Ex Christine’s Monthly Child Support Demands Amid ‘Yellowstone’ Exit
usmagazine.comKevin Costner claimed he cannot afford to pay estranged wife Christine Baumgartner $248,000 a month in child support now that he is no longer “under contract” for Yellowstone.“I will earn substantially less in 2023 than I did in 2022.
This is because I am no longer under contract for Yellowstone, the principal source of my income last year,” Costner, 68, stated in documents filed on Wednesday, June 28, and obtained by Us Weekly the following day. “The fixed amount ‘pay or play’ and episodic compensation I received has ceased.
Now, any compensation I earn from Yellowstone will derive only from my back-end contractual participation rights, which amounts are not fixed.”Costner, who has starred as patriarch John Dutton on the family drama since it premiered in 2018, added that a “recent report from the producer for Yellowstone showed he was not owed any participation money” — a claim he has since “disputed” — and that he has yet to receive any compensation from the series this year.Paramount Network officially announced in May that Yellowstone will end with its fifth season, the first half of which concluded in January.
The second batch of episodes were initially slated to premiere in the summer, but were pushed back to fall. The news came after months of speculation about a rift between creator Taylor Sheridan and Costner, who reportedly wanted off the series.
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