Family Forum / Marriage / Divorce / May 2008

http://defamer.com/5010480/denise-richards-augmenting-paltry-25-million-divorce-
settlement-with-hefty-e-payday

Real Housewives Of Fruitcake County

Denise Richards Augmenting Paltry $25 million Divorce Settlement With
Hefty E! Payday

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 fossilized 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.