Marc Anthony’s ex, who wants $113k/month in child support, claims he’s hiding millions

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As we’ve heard, Marc Anthony’s ex, Dayonara Torres, wants her child support for her two children with Marc, sons Cristian, 13, and Ryan, 10, raised from the $13,000 a month she’s currently receiving to a whopping $113,000 a month. Dayanara’s argument is that Marc makes over a million a month and that his sons should be raised with support staff and in a way that’s consistent with their father’s lifestyle. Marc’s argument is that he doesn’t want to spoil the boys and that a middle class lifestyle builds character, essentially. (Although only in LA would $156k a year be considered middle class.)

Dayanara has been fighting in court for months to try and have her child support raised. As TMZ reports, she won a minor victory of sorts after the judge recently ruled that Anthony needed to submit more complete financial information:

Both Anthony and Torres were in an L.A. County courtroom … where she claimed Anthony hasn’t been honest in disclosing all of his assets — including homes and income. She also says he has no problem shelling out money to other people … claiming he pays $330K a year to support relatives, girlfriends and kids.

Anthony argued he’s so rich it would be too hard to calculate every single dollar he earns. He’s claimed he already pays Torres more than enough to take care of the kids and anything else would “spoil them rotten.”

But the judge wasn’t buying what Marc was selling … and ordered him to submit a complete accounting of his income and expenses by 10 A.M. Tuesday.

As we’ve reported … Torres wants a huge increase in monthly child support — from $13K a month to $113K — saying she can’t give their boys the lavish lifestyle Marc gives them, complete with world travel, private jets and fancy hotels.

[From TMZ]

Torres is asking for $1.35 million a year, which seems excessive of course. It may be a drop in the bucket to Anthony, considering his massive income, and it also may be what he legally owes.

I went to the California child support calculator and ran some numbers. I had no idea what I was doing, but I put in a million dollars in monthly earnings for one parent, 0 for another, with 2 kids that spend 90% of their time with the 0 earning parent. The results were that the richer parent owed $89k a month in child support. (Of course I may have made mistakes in the other fields.) So if Anthony makes $1.25 million a month, the amount Torres is asking for may not be that far off. Plus, Torres has said that Jennifer Lopez gets more child support than she does. I guess Marc figures that those kids are already going to be spoiled so he can’t protect them from becoming drug addicts.

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  1. paola says:

    No money in the world could make me marry this guy.

  2. Ag says:

    Not only in LA. The DC metro area is the same way. The houses here average 700k, so while we make 150k/year, we can’t even afford to buy a home. It’s insane.

    • Algernon says:

      True story in most major metro areas, really.

    • Matthew says:

      You are so right about DC. I was RENTING
      a one bedroom house in Woodley Park for
      2900 a month. I moved to Chicago and BOUGHT a house in Hyde Park for only 147k.
      I’m so glad I left DC.😄

      • oandlomom says:

        156,000 with 2 in the Chicago area is also middle class. And not particularly comfortable. Living proof.

  3. eliza says:

    They have been divorced for years and while the children do need to be taken care of, she does not. From most of what I have read, in addition to his support he indeed pays for many extras for the children and they spend time with him. This is about a money grab for her, not her kids. She needs to get a job and quit using her children as a means to increase her lifestyle money.

    I have no dog in the hunt but I have never liked this woman. She has always seemed greedy and sketchy. Just my opinion.

    • Aussie girl says:

      Yes but he should be paying the same child support he pays j-lo

      • Algernon says:

        Yeah, that’s always my go-to in these situations. It looks gross because of how much money is involved (why can’t you live on $156K?! says most of America), but to me, if you have multiple kids with multiple ex-wives, all the kids should be provided for equally. The end.

      • Sherry says:

        Do we really know what he’s paying J-Lo? Or do we just have her word that J-Lo’s getting more?

        Also, his company may be making $1.25 million a month, but that doesn’t mean he is making $1.25 million a month. What your company makes and what your personal income is can be vastly different. That’s why these people have CPA’s and financial advisors. LLC’s buy their homes. Their cars are “company cars.” They find reasons to spend lavish amounts of money and hire private jets because it’s part of their professional image and it all comes out of company funds. Their “take home” pay can be minimal compared to their company’s expenditures.

        And that’s what child support will be calculated on. His “take home” pay.

      • Cazzee says:

        Her lawyers are to blame for that – they should have included a clause in the divorce settlement specifying that her child support would never be less than what was provided to other (future) ex-wives.

        I read that Brooke Mueller has a clause in her divorce agreement specifying that her children will always get the same level of support as Charlie Sheen’s other children.

      • bluhare says:

        I agree. I’d argue that Lopez deserves less as she makes more, assuming both parents’ incomes are taken into account.

      • Bridget says:

        @care: child support isn’t decided that way, its calculated off of the income of the non-custodial parent. So if he’s paying J Lo one amount, chances are he’s gonna have to pay Dayanara the same amount whether he wants to or not.

    • All I’m going to say is this–he is a grown ass man. He chose to marry her, he chose to not use any kind of protection, and make two kids with her. He chose her. If he didn’t want to pay child support to a golddigger (however true that statement is), then he shouldn’t have married and had kids with a golddigger. It doesn’t matter what she’s done, it’s about what he needs to do, and what he isn’t doing. All four of those kids should be getting the same amount of child support. Period. No matter his feelings about their mother. If he doesn’t want to pay out of the ass in child support, then he needs to quit having kids.

      • bluhare says:

        I agree with you other than the golddigger part. She didn’t have those children to make money off them, like a lot of women appear to do these days. They were married, had kids, and he dumped her for Lopez.

      • @bluhare
        I don’t think she’s a golddigger either–but my point was that even if she was……he should have to do his part, no matter what she’s doing. And if he was so worried about her not spending any money on them, he *could* go to court and get the custody changed, so that he has them. But I doubt that’d happen.

        I’ve only met one man who has done that–most of the time its so many men who just abandon their kids. But it’s one of my cousins, he’s in the military–basically his wife abandoned their daughter when they divorced…doesn’t even try to see her or anything.

      • Skye says:

        I agree about living up to responsibilities, but honestly, how much is enough? I totally see his point about not wanting them spoiled. $156k makes for a pretty nice life. Just because your parents (parent) have money, that doesn’t entitle you to live like tiny kings.

      • snowflake says:

        or….she told him she was on birth control and got pregnant on purpose. i knew a girl who did that, and the bf wasn’t rich. when a lot of money’s involved, women who are looking for a payday can get pretty inventive

      • @snowflake–they have more than one kid. It wasn’t an oopsie baby. They were MARRIED…and he dumped her for JLo.

        @skye
        It has nothing to do him not wanting them to be spoiled. He just doesn’t want to pay. Period.

      • Lola says:

        She is not a gold digger, she actually fell in love with the man and he screwed her royally! Her confidentiality agreement after their divorce is said to be one of the more iron clad out there.

    • Delorb says:

      What he seems to be forgetting is that there is no way to support his children without going through her. Men (and some women) need to get right with this fact. Once they do, it becomes easier. But it sounds like he’s trying to keep HER from getting the money, but its really hurting his KIDS.

    • P.J. says:

      100,000,000% agreed @Eliza. I am so fed up with hearing stories about ex wives-famous an otherwise-whining about how unfair it is that their EX-husbands don’t support them/their kids/their lifestyles enough (are you f**king kidding me with that one?!) when they are already banking high five figures a month. Excuse me but, isn’t this 2014 we’re living in here? Women who play the helpless/unable/not willing to work card after the demise of a marriage set ALL of us back in the fight for gender equality which should be across the board in all things-not just what’s convenient.

      And not talking about women like my own mother who slaved away at two, sometimes three jobs just to make ends meet (my day dad passed away but the point is, I know real struggle), or mom’s whose husbands disappeared in the middle of the night w/o a penny to support their kids. THAT is the type of case child support was initial created for. Unfortunately, as with most things these days, the definition of it has become completely misconstrued and as we’ve seen all to often, “child” support more often than not (at least when concerning the rich) has become about a bunch of spoiled, lazy, totally unmotivated women expecting men to foot the bill for ALL of their household & life expenses! Even if all said expenses are for the children (chuckle) in no way shape or form should an ex husband be expected to dish out so much money it allows the mother to not have to work. After all, didn’t it take two consenting adults to make those children?? Women who refuse to work in favor of just going after their exes for more money when they need more really drive me bananas!!

  4. bammer says:

    She must have had a terrible divorce attorney. Did she get a lump sum settlement? Property? Anything when they got divorced? He seemed in a hurry to marry Lopez so she should have held out until she bled him dry. I don’t blame her for wanting more money for her kids. He seems to only care about the kids with Lopez.

    • Dhavynia says:

      That is exactly what I thought when they divorced. Didn’t he get a quick divorce in the Dominican Republic as he was getting together with JLo? If you follow Spanish sneaking tabloids (I get info from my mom) she did get shafted in comparison. I usually don’t agree with these type of cases but definitely she’s not getting what her sons are entitled

    • Bridget says:

      I thought it turned out he was in bad financial straights when he and Dayanara broke up? And that was one of the things about his marriage with J Lo, that she knew he had money problems and made sure not to co mingle assets.

  5. Renee says:

    Jeez…the guy should just pay up already!!!! I hate when men treat their kids they’ve had with one woman like second class citizens compared to their kids they’ve had with others because they have issues with their exes…I hate when people have the money to pay child support and won’t and I hate when people sire children and then decide to be shitty/absent/neglectful parents.

  6. L says:

    The kids should all get the same amount. Her kids and J.Lo’s kids.

    Clearly he doesn’t seem to mind the twins with J.Lo being “spoiled rotten”. It’s just him being selfish/greedy. She’s not asking for alimony , but for the kids to all be treated the same.

  7. TheOriginalPuppy says:

    I bet the IRS find these disputes very interesting.

  8. Adrien says:

    How could he earn that amount? I don’t know any Marc Anthony songs but I know he was the cop in Hackers.

    • AmyR says:

      I noticed he has a clothing line in Kohl’s. Why anyone would pay to look like him is beyond me, but I’m sure he gets some nice income there.

      • lucy2 says:

        I hate walking through the men’s department there, his creepy face is always leering from displays.

      • Jamie says:

        I work at Kohl’s , his line always sells out. It’s not because of his face though, the clothes are actually really nice. Men of all ages buy it up. J.Lo’s line on the other hand barely sells in comparison.

    • Clever hand says:

      If you are not a fan of Latin music you don’t really realize it but this guy is huge.

      • Adrien says:

        Yeah but those are almost JayZ level figures, global star category money. I guess he’s really just savvy financially.

  9. HappyMom says:

    If they’re living the high life when they’re with him-the private jets, vacations (which I’m sure they are) then his argument that he doesn’t want them “spoiled” is ridiculous. And I agree with whoever said her attorney sucked. We have friends who divorced and the dad pays almost this much a month in child support-and he doesn’t have anywhere near Marc Anthony’s wealth.

  10. lucy2 says:

    I vaguely recall that she got property and some other things from the divorce, but that does seem low for someone who’s “so rich it would be too hard to calculate every single dollar he earns.” That is 100% bullshit, and I think the IRS would agree with me. If I recall, he got in trouble for taxes already, so you’d think he’d be vigilant with his money.
    Doesn’t want to spoil the kids? I’m guessing his kids with JLo don’t get that same attitude.

  11. Loopy says:

    So she wants a 100% increase, if one parent has the kids 90% of the time but makes more money(which i’m sure is the case with Marc and JLO) does the other parent still have to pay?

  12. QQ says:

    I Believe Her, Marc plays super dirty, is notoriously cheap and fronts like a great dad but is by all accounts super absent from his …lemme see.. 6? 7? Kids’ lives?

  13. Inlike says:

    Wealthy people I suppose can just make as many families as they want. Marc Anthony will pay out and suck it up.

    It’s those men that can’t afford or refuse to even pay for their first child that grates my nerves. They bounce off after their divorces and make more babies, leaving their prior child/children abandoned…..I wish we could force sterilization on those maggots.

  14. Hissyfit says:

    His excuse is lame. All of his kids should get equal amount of child support no matter who the mother is and where they live.

  15. Merritt says:

    Minor children deserve to live at the same level as their parents. End of story. If he indeed has that amount then he should be paying up for the kids. People want to characterize child support as for the ex, but it is not, it is for the children.

  16. daisyfly says:

    Does anyone even know how much he’s paying Jennifer? Dayonara has never liked her, not that I can blame her (Mark dumped D the minute J became single and remarried days after the divorce was finalized), and so one might want to take what she says about her with a grain of salt.

    And unless Mark isn’t flying those kids around on private jets and buying them half of FAO Schwartz, he has no room to talk about fearing his sons being spoiled.

    • Tammy says:

      Jennifer Lopez reportedly gets over $100k per month in child support.

      • daisyfly says:

        From what I’ve read she doesn’t receive much, if any, child support, and no spousal support either. The only thing she wanted was primary physical custody, which she got, but they share joint legal custody. Given their individual incomes I don’t see why that agreement wasn’t honored. I also don’t see how D can point to Jennifer’s kids as an example of luxury that her own children aren’t getting when Jennifer is making her own money as a singer and television judge.

  17. LucyStarr says:

    His kids are old enough to search the internet. He wants them to live a “middle class lifestyle”. How does he think they feel when they see their younger half siblings clearly living a much more “upper class” lifestyle?

    Granted, their former step-mother is wealthy in her own right and can afford to give her kids more than their own mother can. But still, how would you feel, as an adolescent (or almost adolescent), knowing your dad’s other kids are spoiled rotten and he’s choosing to let you live a different life?

    Way to breed resentment amongst all your kids.

    I don’t know much (or anything) about child support laws, but if he’s just worried about his ex using the child support for her *own* lifestyle, isn’t there some way to set up the child support payments so that the custodial parent has to show what the money’s used for (i.e., the kids)? And I’m not judging anyone here – I think it’s important the kids from his other marriages be just as fully supported as the ones he had with JLo. In fact, I think they should be treated equally. But this sounds more like a case of sticking it to the mother than the kids.

  18. Wilma says:

    The parting in the middle is not your friend. Look into side partings.

  19. Boxy Lady says:

    At least one of the kids is autistic, DT has said in the past. Extra things for him may account for her push for more money. And really, what would be wrong with that?

  20. DTX says:

    I’m #TeamDayanara forever (when it comes to this triangle). Marc Anthony has been around as a celebrity/singer in the Latin American world forever and I’ve watched his career and personal life over the years. Dayanara truly loved this little troll and he even left her during their marraige (when he was rumored to be having an affair with the then-up and coming Jennifer Lopez who was married at the time), he came back to her and made a big spectale of remarrying her and had the nerve to invite J.Lo. D recalled in interviews later that Jennifer ignored her (at HER own wedding!) and only congratulated Marc. He then wrote a few awful songs hinting that he felt awful and torn over his kind and sincere woman loving him when he loved someone else. When he dumped her he was making her believe it was only a temporary split, he just needed “time to breathe” but then he quickly married J.Lo.

    So, NO…Dayanara is not a Golddigger, she was a woman who was very publicly screwed a la Brandi Glanville, however, she didn’t fight back but retreated pretty quietly.

    He should be paying for his children EQUALLY regardless of how much money it is. Some people on this thread are thinking with their own pockets as opposed to his very deep ones…

    • Delorb says:

      When they got married, wasn’t she more well known (in America) than him? I seem to recall a lot of people wondering why she did it. There was a lot of beauty and the best type articles. That is what leads me to believe that she actually loved him. Just pay her already, jeez!

      • Lola says:

        The Former Miss Universe from Puerto Rico back then was more known that him. And I agree with DTX, she is not a gold digger but she DOES need to get her stuff together. He was a bad husband, but he has helped her out with a current private mess she had. Part of the rumors, of course.

        J-Lo knew of Marc Anthony since way back when. It was not (according to the Latino gossip) that Marc married DayAnara (come on Kaiser write the name correctly!) than she (J-Lo) decided to profess their love – and be happy adulterers together- and the story about the second wedding … well known in latino communities… true … a huge wedding and all commenting about J-Lo’s, let’s say, lack of common courtesy.

        When it comes to child support, he has to pay a $ amount, but he also pays their school, camps, etc. Have no idea about the rest.

  21. snowflake says:

    this post seems familiar. was there another post about this awhile back?

  22. dinalee says:

    Child support is usually calculated based on both parents income so in reality Mark may not pay very much if anything to Jennifer if they have joint custody.

  23. Jamie says:

    I understood her point, until she demanded things like nannies and personal chefs and all that crap in another article. That’s just over the top and ridiculous.

  24. Jennifer says:

    The bigger story here, to me, is that he’s even employed. I don’t venture anywhere past Celebitchy but I didn’t even realize he did anything.