Linda Evangelista, the 1990s supermodel who famously uttered, "We don't wake up for less than $10000 a day," was in Manhattan Family Court yesterday to demand that the father of her four-year-old son pay a staggering $46,000/month in child support, which was noted as the "largest support order in the history of the Family Court." Of course, the baby daddy happens to be fashion industry billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault, who is married to Salma Hayek. more ›

Giants legend Lawrence Taylor was in court again last week, but not for a crime—he dealing with his ex-wife's request that he increase child support payments for his 13-year-old daughter who is chronically ill from Crohn's disease. But Taylor, who recently pleaded guilty to charges related to felony statutory rape, actually wants the child support to be reduced. more ›

Maybe Hiram Monserrate just likes to cut things? From the looks of things, the disgraced political hack—who was infamously ousted by the State Senate after slashing his girlfriend's face with broken glass and dragging her through a building lobby—is financially ruined. Having lost his Senate comeback bid last March, Monserrate has reportedly been unemployed and living off his police pension of $26,000 a year. As a result, a judge might let him reduce the amount of child support he sends to his ex-wife and autistic son. more ›

Even though he went by "Prince Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen of Austria," 50-year-old Josef Meyers was actually just a deadbeat dad from Michigan, now in jail for owing more than $200,000 in child support to his first wife. Instead of paying up, he spent his salary as an FBI informant on a loft on Broome Street that he shared with his second wife. One source told the Post, "He would walk around SoHo in banker-style suits. It was always very preppy with expensive, intellectual-looking spectacles. Sometimes he would even wear a cordless hair dryer on his belt like it was a gun." Umm, what? more ›

After some sad testimony, Jim Nantz, the CBS sportscaster, was ordered to pay his ex-wife $916,000 a year in child support and alimony. According to the AP, "Nantz must pay $72,000 a month in alimony until either he dies or his ex-wife remarries, and another $1,000 week in child support for their 15-year-old daughter, Caroline, for the next two years...Nantz acknowledged that he began dating a 29-year-old woman before his divorce was final." Nantz does make $4 million/year from CBS and has another $3 million in "yearly assets." more ›

Open water can be a good way to test one's mettle, but is equally as good for running from one's problems. Reid Stowe is about a third of the way through his epic thousand day journey on the open seas without making landfall. Stowe is continuing on his epic voyage, while back at home the courts await his return so he can pay up on unpaid child support. more ›

A week and a half ago, former NJ Governor James McGreevey and his ex-wife Dina Matos McGreevey were fighting over a birthday party McGreevey and his partner were planning for 6-year-old daughter Jacqueline, another public spat in their contentious divorce. In spite of a judge's repeated requests for the McGreeveys to settle their differences for the sake of their daughter, we know a lot about their squabbling. The Post runs down the greatest hits. Matos... more ›