EXCLUSIVE: Mel Shells Out $250K To Oksana's Lawyers
Posted on Jul 30, 2010 @ 06:30AM
Mel Gibson is paying for the Oksana Grigorieva scandal, in more ways than one.
RadarOnline.com has learned the multi-millionaire actor has shelled out up to $250,000 to pay for the same lawyers Oksana is using in a bid to strip him of custodial rights over their infant daughter, Lucia.
What's more, we've learned Mel - who is reportedly worth $900 million - has finally paid Oksana for child support, despite being embroiled in the domestic abuse scandal.
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He wrote a check for $10,000 earlier this month, RadarOnline.com is told.
Oksana had claimed Mel was not paying child support for Lucia and said she was forced to "live on credit cards" and borrow money from friends to support their child.
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"He is not paying me a penny... what he is doing is cruelty," the Russian musician, 40, told the Daily Mail.
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"Mel has paid $10,000 to Oksana to cover her personal needs in order to be a good mother to Lucia," said a source, familiar with the situation.
Mel's move to front Oksana's legal bills seems bizarre and begs the question, why is the Lethal Weapon star paying for his ex-lovers attorneys who are fighting against him in court?
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Even though Oksana signed a co-habitation agreement that signed away her right to Mel's millions, as RadarOnline.com was first to reveal, in civil and custodial battles like this, a court has the power to make the opposing party liable for attorney fees.
"It is up to the judge who make sure lawyers get paid," confirmed a legal source.
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Oct 07, 2010 @ 07:46
So how is this news ROL? It's a fairly common thing to have a judge award the cost of lawyers fees to one party or another in a custody case. Especially if there is a huge disparity in income (his billions - her zip).
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 10:45am
That little practice could come back and bite her in the azz though. A judge could turn around & award Mel lawyers fees just because she & her shady team "forgot" to tell the last judge about the arbitration agreement.
Frivolity costs.
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 10:47am
Get a job like every other single mother has to.
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 8:10am
STOP IT NOW ! ! ROL is ATTEMPTING to be unbiased....oh wait you ruined it with another basher article. She's a has been and i'd call immigration also. Her kid is AMERICAN NOT HER ! !
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 6:38am
Everyone is talking about Mel's rants and no one is asking what caused him to lash out. Oksana pushed his buttons on the very day he quit smoking and she taped it. Sounds like entrapment to me!
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 2:51am
Right, because hes NEVER been taped going off with racist rants before. I guess the officers that ARRESTED him for DUI made up those tapes too. Grow up.
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 6:38am
I agree, in the voice mail recording with Mel and her e-mail to her attorney, she makes statements that brings questions of what she was saying to him behind doors to get him this angry. That is a form of psychological abuse.
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 6:22am
Go figure what would the average Joe do who just found out he was extorted. Someone who worked hard for His money and used his own... screw her and the horse she blew in on.
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 3:53am
He kicked her out but jesus christ there she is again
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 3:17am
Oksana is a shrewed 40 yr. old woman with one last chance to rope a billionaire ($$$) *sucker* in by getting pregnant and living off the child support for the next 21 years or so...what a shrew.
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 3:01am