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Denise Richards Augmenting Paltry $25 million Divorce Settlement With Hefty E! Payday
Posted by Seth at 8:45 AM on May 23, 2008
Oh, what's to be done with Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen. They may bicker incessantly and claim they can't stand the sight of one another, but deep down, you just know they're hoping the other contracts feline AIDS. With her E! reality series set to premiere on Memorial Day, Richards has been hitting the talk show circuit harder than Richie Sambora in a bathroom stall at the LAX wrap party. This included some face-time with fossilised CNN grand inquisitor Larry King, where she explained that the show comes directly out of need; not, surprisingly, the need to be on TV, but rather the need to feed and shelter her two children, abandoned by their father to follow his tween-outfitting, trampoline dreams. Now, a "Sheen insider" tells Page Six that Richards' claims are absurd, as the actress is regularly greeted by the beeping sound of a Hollywood Alimony Services dump truck backing into her driveway to release that month's child support payment:
But, "Denise gets $52,000 a month tax-free in child support," a Sheen insider fumed. "Most people in America can figure out how to live on that, but Denise can't?"
In addition to the child support, Richards got $60,000 a month (also tax-free) for two years in alimony - adding up to a whopping $1.44 million. Richards also gets a chunk of Sheen's hot sitcom, "Two and a Half Men," which "eventually will net her up to $25 million," the source said. [...]
With Richards' financial needs accounted for, the question remains: Why? Why subject herself and her children to constant, craftily story-edited observation when she could have just as easily have spared them the experience? Perhaps the show itself will provide the elusive answers, and so now, it's just a matter of waiting until Denise Richards: Yes, I Actually Exist—Kill Yourselves, Kill Yourselves Now premieres to scrutinize it for possible clues.
- SHEEN CALLS RICHARDS UNREAL [NY Post]
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Admore
Posted 12:45 PM 23/5/08
I've always thought she looked like a Muppet.
I know her ex has an inexplicably ever-renewed network comedy, but isn't there some way we could get them to do a reality show together? I'd like to see that.
@exit 212 - Blogging generally assumes literacy. Maybe she could get a ghost-blogger?
Admore
Senator Sully
Posted 8:58 AM 23/5/08
"Boy, and here I was thinking I spent a fortune on hookers!"
Senator Sully
el smrtmnky
Posted 8:09 AM 23/5/08
@Seth: Richards has been hitting the talk show circuit harder than Richie Sambora in a bathroom stall at the LAX wrap party.
best thing i've read all day.
el smrtmnky
Seth
Posted 6:22 AM 23/5/08
@BScrivner: Yes, that's the joke.
Seth
BScrivner
Posted 5:36 AM 23/5/08
E! and "hefty payday" can't exist in the same sentence. I'll bet she makes AFTRA scale for every episode.
BScrivner
MartyPants
Posted 5:00 AM 23/5/08
No matter what her IMDB says.
MartyPants
MartyPants
Posted 4:59 AM 23/5/08
@it takes a train to cry: What generation? The Boomers? She's no MySpacer/Gen Y.
MartyPants
crackbabyjesus
Posted 4:42 AM 23/5/08
In the immortal words of Dolly Parton, "it costs alot to look this cheap".
crackbabyjesus
thecatsmeow
Posted 4:35 AM 23/5/08
How could anyone possibly live on $52,000 per ye...I mean month. Nevermind.
thecatsmeow
valarmorghulis
Posted 4:21 AM 23/5/08
This lady needs no more E, look at how hard she's already grindin' those teeth!
valarmorghulis
sassydeerrun
Posted 4:12 AM 23/5/08
You mean she can't live off the royalties of Wild Things? That joker is on basic cable twice a week.
sassydeerrun
NoWireHangers
Posted 4:08 AM 23/5/08
A Reality TV show is the God given right of every F-lister in Hollywood. It's the TV equivalent of putting the defibrillator paddles on a dead career: you get a little gigglin' but at the end of the day it still smells like rot.
Anyway, this will help Denise keep her saline implants fresh. Just think, if we'd had viable reality TV options in 1994 MC Hammer might not have recorded "Pumps and a Bump" in a desperate attempt to stave off bankruptcy. The Surreal Life was too little too late.
NoWireHangers
it takes a train to cry
Posted 3:47 AM 23/5/08
Exploiting her children and other loved ones for career reasons and cash? That's just the way her generation is.
it takes a train to cry
ext212
Posted 3:46 AM 23/5/08
What do you want her to do? Blog to make money? The lady has to live!
ext212
brechtgirl
Posted 3:43 AM 23/5/08
Congratulations Denise, you some how made me feel sorry for Charlie Sheen.
brechtgirl
kookla
Posted 3:41 AM 23/5/08
I blame Heather Mills.
kookla
Miss Anne Thrope
Posted 3:36 AM 23/5/08
She needs the money to keep dyeing her hair that awful color.
Miss Anne Thrope
misterdirk
Posted 3:33 AM 23/5/08
When she played the austic blind girl in Interracial Anal Bonanza 2, I mean, mad respect. But I feel like I don't even know Denise anymore...
misterdirk