Baby Mama Drama has reached diva proportions thanks to this supermodel’s quest to get everything for her son that his half sister has. Things have gotten pretty ugly in Linda Evangelista’s child support case against Salma Hayek’s billionaire husband Francois-Henri Pinault, and he’s speaking out about how well the boy Augustin has been treated and making Linda look kinda like a greedy gold digger if you ask us.
Billionaire Fracois-Henri Pinault has defended his conduct towards the ‘secret’ son he fathered with supermodel Linda Evangelista.
Speaking for his first time on the subject, he told the French edition of Elle magazine that four-year-old Augustin is an important member of his family.
He also said he has always ‘recognized’ the boy as his own and that his three-year-old daughter Valentina treats him like a brother.
He said: ‘At every possible opportunity he has participated in my family life whether in France or the United States.
‘He is totally integrated within my family.’
The French businessman has been accused by the supermodel’s lawyer of paying nothing in child support since his birth.
The model’s lawyer, William Beslow, argued while the executive lavishes Valentina with luxuries – spending $50,000 a month for a $12million Los Angeles estate held in trust in the her name – he has yet to make investments on behalf of the little boy.
Mr Beslow said. ‘He’s just been sitting back, paying zero.’
Ms Evangelista is asking for a whopping $46,000 a month in child support – a figure so astronomical it reportedly ‘made the judge’s jaw drop’.
However a request for $7,500 per month for vacation expenses was immediately removed from the request in a hearing at Manhattan Family Court last month.
The aging model argues she needs the money to pay for around-the-clock nannies and armed chauffeurs to take care of little Augustin as a working single mother.
Mr Pinault’s lawyer, David Aaronson, questioned Ms Evangelista’s need for a team of drivers who are former police detectives at a cost of $175,000 a year, and $80,000 a year for an around-the-clock nanny.
He said: ‘She testified that she wants to have a 24-hour nanny because she does not want to be alone with the child…
‘Miss Evangelista, you should understand, has a worth of more than $8million, and she earned, last year, $1.8 million.’
The judge then asked the model, who famously said in a 1990 interview ‘We (supermodels) don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day,’ how many hours she works.
She replied: ‘On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.
‘When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.’
Mr Pinault has deep pockets as he is the the chief executive of PPR, the group which owns Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Bottega Veneta.
The executive’s family are also worth worth an estimated $11.5billion
Sorry, but what kind of mother doesn’t want to be alone with her child? That’s just wack. We didn’t like this broad when she talked that “we don’t get up for less than 10K a day” yang and we don’t really like her now — but it does seem only fair that the billionaire should treat his kids equally.
What do you think? Does being a millionaire Mommy make her less entitled to child support?
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