Kevin Costner will still have to lasso up some serious funds for his monthly child support payments ... even though ex-wife Christine Baumgartner is getting remarried.
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00:00Kevin Costner's ex, and the fact that she is now about to be a bride again.
00:05Christine Baumgartner is engaged to Josh Conner, and if Josh Conner's name sounds familiar,
00:13we broke a story last year when Christine and Josh were vacationing together in Hawaii,
00:22and this raised all sorts of antenna for people because Josh, we knew, was friends with not
00:28only Christine, but also Kevin, during their marriage, who's one of their neighbors there
00:32in Santa Barbara.
00:35But the fact that they were together at the time...
00:37This is not surprising to anyone close to them, right?
00:39Like everyone knew this was going to happen.
00:41At the time, they said, look, they were friends and helping each other.
00:44He was going through a divorce as well, I believe, and they were just being friends,
00:49being supportive friends, which very well may be the case, but we know that they've
00:53continued dating after the divorce, after Kevin and Christine got divorced.
00:58I'm happy for them.
00:59Find love after marriage.
01:01I think this is a good thing.
01:03Does this affect anything with payouts or any money that she is getting from Kevin Costner?
01:08That was the first thing that popped into my head.
01:11Because if you immediately put yourself in Kevin Costner's shoes, and you first think,
01:15is he upset because this isn't a friend of his, someone who was a friend, who's now with
01:22his ex-wife?
01:23Oh, I wasn't thinking about that.
01:24I was thinking...
01:25Is he upset about that, and is he thinking about...
01:26The money.
01:27...that if she gets remarried, then he may not have to pay out certain amounts.
01:31How does that work?
01:32Well, and what's crazy is, I mean, the fact that he's paying her $63,000 in child support.
01:37They obviously share three younger kids together, but he's paying her $63,000 a month in child
01:45support.
01:46But remember, Brendan, she wanted, what she had asked when they were fighting this in
01:49court, she wanted like $280,000 per month.
01:54Much lower than that.
01:55Much lower.
01:56Right.
01:57Anyways, this does sound like a kind of picture-perfect engagement.
02:00They were apparently on a beach up in Santa Barbara.
02:03It was about to rain.
02:04He got down on one knee and proposed.
02:07The question is, what does Kevin think about all of this?
02:10We don't know the answer to that yet.
02:11He hasn't said anything, and I'm sure he won't, but look, his child support money doesn't
02:16get affected by her getting married at all once she is married.
02:19As for spousal support, he paid that already, and we know this.
02:23When they had the battle when she was fighting the prenup, he made it very clear.
02:28He said, the terms of our prenup required that I pay her, I think it was $1.5 million
02:35upon getting divorced.
02:36And he said, I've already paid that.
02:38So spousal support's done, so there's nothing, that's the only thing that would be affected
02:43by her getting married.
02:44I was going to say, I know that there was parts of that divorce agreement that were
02:46private that no one's going to know about, where there could have been more money involved
02:49in this divorce, and it could have had a payout.
02:52This, I'm assuming, would affect it, but maybe not.
02:54Maybe it was all one lump sum, and that's it.
02:57From what we have heard from our sources, who are very much in the know, Kevin's, this
03:01is not affecting his pockets in any way.
03:04How he feels about it emotionally, not so sure, but congrats to Christine and Josh.
03:11Well, I'm Shemeika Sanders from Staten Island, New York, and listen, congrats are in order,
03:17but I know Kevin Costner's chest hurts, because these two went through a very acrimonious
03:22divorce, and it seemed like he was still in love with her at the time.
03:26But listen, 18 years of marriage is a long time, and having to compete with his Hollywood
03:31career, I can understand if everything wasn't as it seemed.
03:35However, her new fiancé, the financier, that was Kevin's alleged friend, so I'm really
03:41giving them the side eye, because, and that was his neighbor, listen, okay?
03:45I don't know how long that was going on, but all of their friends and their family
03:50is so supportive, which makes me believe that it was a little something before that.
03:55The timeline has been questioned a couple times, I can say that.
03:58A lot of people questioned it.
03:59They have always maintained that they were friends, and that the romantic relationship
04:04started much later after the divorce.
04:06So that's that.