Lionel Richie's estranged wife seeks $300,000 a month in spousal support

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Someone should send this Ho packin. Get a job!!!

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The estranged wife of singer Lionel Richie wants $300,000 a month in child and spousal support, saying she had "no limit on what I could spend" during their nearly seven years of marriage.

The singer "has never had a problem earning money. I know that he earns in excess of $300,000 per month because we have always comfortably spent at least that in any given month," Diane Richie said in the papers.

She cited the upkeep for their $40 million, 30-room Beverly Hills mansion, which the estranged couple still shares. That includes a $75,000 monthly mortgage and wages for a full-time staff of nine and additional people to "maintain our plants, detail our cars, care for our pool, groom our dog, maintain our aquarium and a painter for regular touch ups on the house," Diane. Richie said.

Diane Richie estimated that she spent $20,000 a year on plastic surgery and $50,000 a month on personal expenses, including $15,000 a month for clothing, shoes and accessories; $5,000 on jewelry; $3,000 on dermatology; $1,000 for laser hair removal and $600 on massages.

"We could comfortably afford to spend unlimited sums of money on everything and anything we chose. I had no limit on what I could spend," she wrote in the Feb. 26 filing.
 

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once you give a chic a taste of the good life, WHOA NELLY

once she becomes accustomed to it, DOUBLE WHOA NELLY
 

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lol. . .mickj, I said the same thing after the Martha Stewart case
 

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IMO all that he is responsible for is Child Support. She should really get a job and move on. She used to work and support herself before she met him. Just my opinion.
 

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Anyone else shocked that Lionel is STILL pulling in that kind of dough...how is he doing it?
 

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Can someone tell me how Lionel Richie still makes $4 million per?

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did he not write a lot of the hits he had in the 70s? the royalties on that kind of stuff are gold dust, just ask Paul McCartney!
 
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I thought my $2,000 per month in child support was bad...guess I shouldn't complain after all.
 

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yes. . .owning the publishing rights is where the real money is in the music biz.

this is why mcartny and mike jackson went from friends to enemys. supposedly paul explained to michael how this works and went on to mention that the "northern songs" were going to be available which michael ended up purchasing. paul accused mike of being a theif saying that he has no right to own those songs. mike retailiated by saying paul was too cheap and that if he wanted the book he should have been willing to bid more. (mike was the only one able to outbid paul)

michael made millions and millions off those songs and the value of the book continued to appreciate year after year.

the northern songs contain many of the beatles older hits as well as some other hits from other artists such as "rock'n robin"

mike has sold the book not too long ago, i have no idea who owns them now. may even be yoko ono or mcartny or perhaps some private investment group.
 

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i stand corrected. not that this all that relevant. but mike still owns them except now in partnership with sony. sony will own them if (i should say 'once') mike defaults on a 200 million dollar loan from bank of america. which will be virtually impossible to pay back, so sony will own them shortly.

the northern songs contain up to 260 beetles tunes.
 

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More I think about it, I might have judged Diane too harshly. It just wouldn't be right for her to have to go uptown in a dirty car. And no one wants to be seen with an un-groomed dog. Gotta keep that young painter around. He can do it three times - in the morning. "I know that he earns in excess of $300,000 per month" Say he earns $350K a month. That still leaves Lionel $50K.
 

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Happy 65th Lionel

1949 - Lionel Richie, Alabama, singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover)
 

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How can a wife make you a millionaire???




if you're a billionaire to start with.. Bad da bing
 

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I'm surprised Richie makes more than a million per year, let alone enough to give away $300,000 per month.
 

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This just proves messi is the best soccer player to present. Nice shot!
 

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I finally figured out, it's cheaper to stay married if she is hot ass.
 

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"The singer “has never had a problem earning money. I know that he earns in excess of $300,000 per month because we have always comfortably spent at least that in any given month”, Diane Richie said in the papers."

But yet she is asking for the same $300,000 per month. This woman is obviously a shameless, ignorant hussy!


Anyone else shocked that Lionel is STILL pulling in that kind of dough...how is he doing it?


Knock, knock..... The guy is an absolute genius! He didn't sing that crap where you cannot even understand the lyrics! A long list of BIG HITS!
 

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