We’ve heard for some time that Demi Moore is dragging out her divorce from Ashton Kutcher over money issues, as in she feels she’s entitled to more than he’s offering her. Back in March, Radar reported that Demi Moore thought it was “only fair that she be compensated for the nearly 10 years she was with Ashton. They claimed that she was still hurt and humiliated by their breakup, and was striking back “the only way she knows how.” Demi’s career has cooled considerably since she hooked up with Ashton in 2003, and she wants a chunk of his money. The NY Post has details of her monetary demands in the divorce, and they say she’s going after stock Ashton owns in an Internet investment fund he co-founded. Ashton’s share is worth $20 million and Demi wants half.
Ashton Kutcher’s contentious divorce with Demi Moore has now spiraled into a $10 million battle over his venture capital fund with Madonna’s manager Guy Oseary and billionaire Ron Burkle, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Kutcher and Oseary earlier this month announced their fund A-Grade investments, set up to invest in tech start-ups, was valued at $100 million and they were raising money from outside investors.
But a source familiar with the proceedings between Kutcher and Moore, who split in November 2011, told us, “Ashton and Demi are still not divorced, and no settlement has been agreed, even though they have been in negotiations for over a year. Ashton made a lot of money after they married, but he doesn’t believe he owes her as much as she is asking for.”
Our source continued, “Ashton set up A-Grade with Oseary and Burkle in 2010, when he and Demi were still together, but he recently told her lawyers the fund had not made substantial money. In fact, he claimed he had only put about $1 million into it.
“Now it seems Ashton and Oseary were working towards a private offering based on a valuation of $100 million. Ashton owns 20 percent of the fund, under California law, Demi should be entitled to half of his share — $10 million.”
Kutcher and Oseary made their announcement at Techcrunch’s Disrupt NY conference in early May, a move that sources close to Demi describe as “audacious and narcissistic.” Companies their fund has invested in include Airbnb, Shazam, Path, Flipboard, Foursquare, Uber, Spotify, Fab.com and Soundcloud.
Kutcher, 35, is TV’s highest-paid actor for “Two and a Half Men,” which netted him $24 million between May 2011 and May 2012. The last major payday for Moore, 50, was $2 million for 2003’s “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.” Kutcher is now dating Mila Kunis.
Kutcher’s rep didn’t get back to us. Moore’s lawyer William Beslow wouldn’t comment.
So I guess the Post is saying that Ashton claimed the fund was worth the $1 million he put into it, but he tried to hide the fact that the company was valued at $100 million. The company probably makes only a fraction of that, but she wants a percent of what Ashton and his partner claim it’s worth.
Many of you will say that Demi should just stop going after Ashton’s money and should try and live off whatever she has and is making – which should still be considerable by normal standards. It’s hard to feel sorry for a woman who made millions during her career and still does an occasional movie. I get why she’s doing this though, she’s used to living the high life and she doesn’t want to have to cut back at this point. Plus you can’t say that she didn’t raise Ashton’s profile considerably. He was the kid from Punk’d, That 70s Show and Dude Where’s My Car? before he got with Demi. I don’t think he’d be as big of a star without her. So I understand Demi’s stance and I won’t condemn her for trying to get a chunk of Ashton’s money. Whether she’s due some of his Internet investment company is up for debate though.
Demi is too stuck in this old relationship. She’s been bedding random young guys to console herself but she still seems hung up on Ashton. She should focus on her professional career and try to get something going. She would be great on television and it would do wonders for her image. Whether she gets what she’s asking for in the divorce or not, she needs to switch things up. Maybe that’s what she’s doing with her yoga practice and that young Sikh guy she’s boning. Things may already be looking up for her.
Ashton is shown at a Laker’s game in February and out alone in April. Demi is shown earlier this month. Photo credit: WENN.com
I can’t stand either of these two idiots. I found them insufferable on their own and together it was worse. Now that that’s out of the way – I definitely recall her using her name and helping him promote twitter and all the other companies early on, so she should definitely get a piece of that pie.
She didn’t help Ashton promote Twitteras Jack Dorsey co-created and is the Executive Chairman of Twitter, not Ashton Kutcher. She’s not entitled to a cent from Twitter.
Totally fair. If money was made during any marriage it should be shared. If the roles were reversed or it was a gay marriage I would be saying the same thing. She isn’t entitled to it because he’s a giant bagga-douche. She’s entitled to it because the money was made during their partnership.
I think she should go after every penny. Douche Tax. If they were together 10 years, why shouldn’t she ask for what every divorcing spouse asks for, which is half of what was made during the marriage? I’m glad she’s making this hard for him, since he made life hard for her. Payback, Kutcher.
+1 douche-tax
You don’t think she was part of the problem? All her kids sided with Ashton, what does that tell you about her? He may be a douche but she’s no picnic either.
Remember when Demi was a strong woman? Now she’s just pathetic. Although if Ashton was too stupid to draft a prenup, I don’t feel bad for him.
Bruce Willis is either a really good person, or a really twisted person, to have put up with Demi for the years they were together.
Bruce Willis is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter. He is granddad age and just fathered a child. If Demi is “pathetic” then Willis is just as much.
@Ann
Bruce Willis’s wife is 34 years old, not an underage teen snatched from the school yard by a pervert. Do try to be a bit less judgmental.
Willis was not so different than Ashton during his marriage to Demi. He was a dog too.
I met Bruce and Demi in Paducah KY (where Rumer was born) when Bruce was there filming a movie. They used to go to the local bowling ally. Bruce was always nice and would sign autographs when approached. Demi was the exact opposite. She and Ashton were made for each other. Bruce is a cool guy.
She was with the dork for 10 years she should get the 10 mill just to piss the asshat off! Lol! Cannot stand either of them but I can tolerate Demi more. 😉
Maybe if she spent half the energy she spends going after her daughters’ boyfriends and partying like she is 17 again in trying to work, her carreer wouldn’t be where it is right now (i.e in the toilet). Also, she needs to be “compensated” for the time spent with her husband, really? Like an escort girl, then?
She comes off as being a greedy and grasping gold-digger. On the other hand, if he was stupid enough not to get a prenup, then maybe he deserves to get fleeced.
She is nuts.Leave Ashton alone already. God, Demi is just so needy. She is a junkie who won’t get rehab, she sleeps with her daughter’s ex boyfriend and people are still calling Ashton a douche for leaving her insane ass? Please. She has money of her own and she and Ashton have no chldren together. There is no reason for her to want so much money.
People call him a douche for publicly cheating instead of leaving her. If he was so unhappy he should have left, easy. Instead he cheated putting the onus upon her to end the marriage. IMO that’s the coward’s way.
What’s really sad is that she is becoming her despised addicted mothers mirror image.
Sigh, Demi is looking more and more pathetic the longer this is drawn out. Demi doesn’t need money from Ashton – she got a considerable settlement from Bruce Willis when they divorced, and has plenty of money from her own career – at this point she is being vindictive and spiteful. Let it go, Demi. You’re being a petty bitch.
While it’s true she may have helped raise his acting profile, Ashton has been incredibly successful in making clever, savvy investments into the technology industry. Demi had nothing to do with this. She cannot claim a hand in the success of his side business, and deserves shit all from Ashton’s investment fund.
Grow up & move on Demi! He can’t shake this crazy womam no matter what. I disagree about her helping him achieve anything. She can’t stand that he dumped her & this is sour grapes! Have some dignity & move on Demi! She deserves nothing from this blip in her life!
Yeah, how would one measure her input in his career and profile? From what I remember (and my memory is rather questionable due to lack of interest) her career and profile at the time weren’t that spectacular, anyway. I think she is bitter because he’s well over her and moved on in a major way, but she is still clinging to the hurt, anger and humiliation of being dumped, especially after the huge song and dance the media made about the success of their relationship, given their age gap. This is understandable, but….. She appears to be filling the void with partying and shagging random (and not so random) young guys. I don’t know whether it’s to bolster her ego and self-esteem or to stick it to Kutcher. Either way, it’s not doing her any good, and she needs to make a very conscious effort to move on in a positive, dignified and self-respecting manner.
Pay up Ashton
Every celebrity and their agent has some connection to the journalists who type up these stories. So my question is, whose agent encouraged this piece to be written. I think all of this bs makes a mockery of what a divorce settlement is supposed to and that is
to make sure the vulnerable spouse is protected. Demi boosted his profile AND introduced him to people he never would have met which is hard to put a price tag on anyway. The disputed money should be handed over to a charity, screw them both.
If I were Ashton, I’d give it to her, so that she can go the heck away! Geesh let it go!!
this is a way for her to have some control over this…its tired now.
geesh
I don’t get it- no one is talking about her assets. Didn’t all the media report on how she cleaned out Willis when they divorced? I thought she was worth $200 million or something like that? If they have no prenup wouldn’t they be asking for money from each other and not just her asking for his? No way does he have as much as Willis had when they divorced.She also used to be the second-highest paid actress, right?
She must have more than Ashton does.
Part of me wants to say, “Cut your losses and move on. You’re the one who married the young douche. Did you really think he was going to stay with you forever?”
Then the other part says. “Get that money. he decided to cheat, now he needs to pay up.”
Either way I think she will come out looking like the loser….. IMO
Because she is a loser…..
Mila… WHY are you into this guy?
I don’t understand why people feel she does not deserve this money? In the time they were together he made more money. Regardless of what she has she is entitled to her share.
If she was just some woman on the street, not famous, and her husband cheated on her everyone would say, “GIRL, GET YOUR MONEY”!!!!
+1 wasn’t Demi richer than Asston when they got married? If they didn’t get a prenup, that’s more power to Demi.
Yup! By law she is entitled to half his earnings. He is being a jerk by first misrepresenting his earnings, and then by balking at giving her what is rightfully hers.
Aren’t his post-separation earnings “his”, instead of “theirs”? Any CA family law attys out there?
Of course she is entitle to half of what he made. Absolutely.
She was his wife and therefore, half of what he has made is hers.
She shouldn’t get a dime. I don’t feel sorry for her at all. She’s proven herself to be more vengeful and conniving than I ever thought. Seriously, just end the marriage and move on with herself. She’d gain more respect that way.
How much is Demi worth?
I think if you look at what other women have rcvd from divorce that is not too much. I think he should pay for his cheating. He broke marriage vows. He did not have to cheat. If she was ill he could of just filed for divorce like a man.
I know he cheated on her, but did he really completely screw her over? Sorry, but she went in with her eyes wide open….I think she should move on. Ashton is WAY overpaid. Am I the only one who thinks 2-1/2 Men is stupid?? I do like Ashton and Mila together, though.
Bad bad move on her part. She’s rich in her own right. And she’s showing her true colors here: she’s an incredibly nasty person.
She can talk about having helped his career, but how about how he helped hers? There’s no doubt that being married to a much younger, handsome man kept Demi in the spotlight while she was doing nothing career-wise. And some kind of punishment tax for cheating is retrograde and ridiculous.
I don’t buy that she helped his career that much. His star was on the rise and her career was already DOA. I mean what movies has she made in recent memory? That forgettable Charlis’s Angels role in 2003 and what 1997’s G I Jane? Her career was over, if anything her relationship with Ashton made her slightly relevant again.
Isn’t she worth an awful lot of money on her own? She has a pretty successful production company, I thought. Anyhow, my 2 cents:
Ashton profile was raised considerably through his relationship with Demi and her connections. If he profited through her connections and reputation (who were results of her own work) then he should by all means pay up. Let’s get real: he wasn’t exactly rolling with the likes of Oseary and Burkle pre-Demi. Dude should pay up.
yeah, demi raised ashton’s profile considerably with their marriage. she was the star, he along for the ride. he benefited greatly by being associated with her and got much more name recognition. i first remember hearing about him from his marriage to demi. he wouldn’t be where he is now without her.
even though she doesnt work much, her production co has made a lot of money
whoever puts these stories out there always conveniently leaves out what she earned and her assets generated during the same period of time – so im guessing they are from team demi and the actual dollar amts are probably comparable or more comparable than she wants people to know
She just wants to throw a pity party and get credit as the victim.
But doesn’t he get half of her earnings also?
I get why she’s doing this too, but she needs to let go. It’s not good for someone like her to keep this fight going. I think she would be great on a sitcom! But not network tv, like a sitcom on HBO or Showtime. And she should cut her hair. I wish nothing but the best for Demi!