Looks like Russell Simmons is the latest music mogul to be taken to the bank for child support following his recent divorce from Kimora Lee Simmons.
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, Simmons will be ordered to pay $480,000 per year (or $20,000 per kid/ month to be exact.)
Kimora will maintain sole custody of their two children, Ming Lee and Aoki Lee with Russell will be “granted” visitation every eighth week.
In addition, Russell is ordered to pay $18,000/ month for maintenence of the couple’s Saddle River, New Jersey Crib which they have put on the market to sell.
Kimora will be allowed to freeload at the residence untill they close on the house. If that’s not enough, Russell must provide Kimora with a new whip every two years, valued at no less than $60,000.
Let me preface this brief rant by the fact that I DO NOT have any children nor have I ever been married and subsequently suffered through a divorce.
I understand the institution of child support…I’m not going to argue against it.
That’s a loosing battle anyway.
What does agitate me is the fact that a self-sustaining, responsible and independently successful woman who upon her own free will chose to part ways with her husband has denied him child custody.
In doing so she’s essentially telling the court a) he’s unfit to be a father more than every EIGHTH week or B) she doesn’t need his support.
But on the other hand she’s contradicting her claims by taking him to the ringer.
Now I understand this may be a drop in the bucket to Russell but what kind of message are we sending?
This argument is not just reserved for Lee girls but with kids across this great and vast nation.
Young men have toiled for years paying child support but at the same time denied any reasonable custody or visitation with their children. Although we hear so many stories of men who don’t pay their are lots of them WHO DO.
But it is these very men whose children grow up BELEIVING their father wasn’t in the picture, didn’t support them, and wasn’t a part of their life. WHY? because mommy chose to make that child’s parenting a business decision.
I get it this entire marriage wasn’t about love to begin with but when you bring children into the equation you have to be much more responsible than Kimora has been.
There are no explanation other than greed to demand that Russell pay for a whip valued at no less than $60 large every two years.
How about give the court a list of vehicles that are safe and reliable, regardless of price, to keep your children safe. I’m tired of hearing stories like this. Nation get at me.
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