KEVIN & CHRISTINE COSTNER'S DIVORCE - The Fight Over His Fortune

INSIDE THE COUPLE'S COURT FACE-OFF AS SHE SEEKS TO MAINTAIN HER 'EXTRAORDINARY' LIFESTYLE-WHILE HE WANTS HER OUT OF THEIR HOUSE 

- ERIC ANDERSSON

To hear Kevin Costner's estranged wife tell it, their 24 years as a couple were a fairy tale. An expensive fairy tale. "We traveled the world in private planes, stayed in luxurious hotels," Christine, 49, who filed for divorce on May 1 after 18 years of marriage, declared in her latest court documents. She and the "handsome, charming... movie star," as she called Kevin, now 68, vacationed everywhere from Hawaii to the Caribbean with their three children, Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13. It was, she admitted, an "extraordinary" lifestyle.

Alifestyle she says she wants to maintain for her family. Court documents filed by both sides show a fight taking shape as she seeks a slice of her estranged husband's estimated $250 million fortune. In papers filed in California's Superior Court on June 16, Christine (née Baumgartner), who is entitled to a settlement of just $1.4 million under the terms of the couple's prenup, asked for $248,000 per month in child support. She argues that the money will help her set up a "suitable separate household" so she can move out of the sprawling Santa Barbara compound, worth an estimated $145 million, where she and the Yellowstone star have lived since they wed. Explains a Christine source: "She wants Kevin to provide what they are used to." In her filing she detailed Kevin's income (nearly $20 million for 2022) as well as the family's expenses ($6.6 million, including $718,323 on credit cards and more than $800,000 in gifts).