This ^^ is an Instagram posted by Mandy Moore. These are just four of her cats. She has a total of six cats and 2 dogs, and I think they’re all rescues and shelter finds. I really enjoyed creeping on her Instagram because she really does post a ton of cat and dog pics. When she travels, she seems to always notice the animals too. Anyway, as you can see, Mandy has a full house of animals. The house in question is the home she shared with Ryan Adams during their six-year marriage. Ryan filed for divorce back in January, and 11 months later, nothing is finalized at all. They’re fighting over who will pay the mortgage on the house and who will take care of all of their fur-babies. Guess what? Ryan Adams is a douche who doesn’t want to support his cats! BOOOOOO.
Per court documents, Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams’ divorce is still outstanding because they can’t reach an agreement on money or what to do with with their eight pets. Moore, 31, and Adams, 41, announced their divorce in January after separating. While the A Walk to Remember actress has enjoyed success both acting and singing, according to recently released documents, her annual income is just a quarter of his, so she’s asking for spousal support.
“I feel as if I have no alternative,” Moore wrote in her petition, admitting Adams contributed to paying half of their mortgage, property taxes and insurance on their L.A. home but says her current earnings don’t cover all her expenses.
In addition to spousal support, the actress-singer is requesting help providing for and taking care of their eight dogs and cats. Per her petition, Adams has offered to take two of the cats but has yet to do so.
“Although I love our pets, it is overwhelming for me to take care of eight of them all of the time,” Moore wrote, adding she even had to “cancel a prior work engagement because my housekeeper was ill and unable to stay with our pets while I traveled for work … Without Ryan’s help caring for the house and our pets, I have not been able to work as much as I would like.”
No one is saying anything about a prenup, so maybe they didn’t have one. Still, California takes a generous view of community property, and after six years of marriage, I would say that Mandy is entitled to some modest support, if not for her, then at least for the cat-babies and dog-babies. I’m not saying Ryan owes Mandy $65,000 A MONTH or anything, but how about a few thousand a month? TMZ reports that until Ryan and Mandy are able to finalize the divorce agreement, she wants the court to order Ryan to pay her $37,000 a month. Which… I don’t know, that seems a little bit excessive? According to her filing, Ryan is making $151,000 a month and she’s making a “quarter” of that. Seems like that would be enough to live on, modestly, in LA, but not if you have a mansion and eight furry mouths to feed.
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OK, I am no longer a pet owner, but when I was I spoiled my cat rotten. However, I cannot imagine what you buy for them that requires tens of thousands to support. It strikes me as highly ridiculous. And usually after a divorce people sell their marital home if neither one can afford the mortgage. There is no law that requires a woman and her cats must have a mansion. Buy smaller, change neighbourhoods and give the cats tuna if caviar is outside your price range. There, problem solved.
Yeah I’m not sure I get the 37K a month thing..is that for her or for her pets or…?
Seems like a lot *just* for pets..
But I definitely don’t think she should have to move out or downsize. I think she should be able to continue with the lifestyle that she’s accustomed to.
Mostly, I love her kitties!!!! Where is her other pup?
If she makes 1/4 of his income, that comes out to about 37K a month. Now she’s asking for him to essentially double her income by giving her an additional 37K a month.
I say if you can’t live on 37K a month, you are doing something very, very wrong. A lot of people don’t even make that much in a year and manage to survive-even with pets. I don’t see why they aren’t selling the property if it’s too pricey for her to maintain on her own.
Other sites have a breakdown of what she’s asking for, and the $37K includes her mortgage, $11k for clothes, $3k for a housekeeper, and $2.6k for the upkeep on the pets.
Yeah, Michael K is saying that she’s falling short of her monthly expenses by a few grand. $11,000 PER MONTH for clothes? What is she doing that she needs those clothes? What is she doing to earn money these days at all? I thought you borrowed clothing for red carpet events.
Actually in the divorces I have known (wealthy folks, not plebes😃) the family most often sells the home since usually the wife -and kids- cannot afford it any longer even with generous support payments.
My cat would see me dead in the gutter before she would give up caviar, that’s just crazy talk.
On topic, I think this may just be a very inflated figure she is asking for so they can haggle down to a reasonable amount and he will think he got a bargain.
I agree. It just looks like her starting point for negotiations.
+1..if giving pets a loving home costs tens of thousands, no one (I know) could afford it. I applaud her for adopting her babies and hope they can work something out..but I don’t believe this is all about the pets…
No, but I believe its about strange pu$$y, just not the kind Ryan would bring home.
We don’t know what’s going on with their pets. My sweet, furry girl has Cancer and her treatment is costing me a few thousand a month (and depleting my savings, but the alternative is unthinkable).
We don’t know if any of the pets are sick or require any kind of expensive treatments or medications. Or maybe she has pet insurance for them, which also isn’t cheap, and for 8 pets, would probably be a couple thousand a month.
Bah ha ha ha “Buy smaller, change neighbourhoods and give the cats tuna if caviar is outside your price range. There, problem solved.” Nailed it.
I think that amount is ridiculous. He was successful long before they got married. She’s perfectly capable of working, she’s obviously making a nice amount on her own and they were only married 6 years with no kids.
Sell the house, split the profit (if there is any), downsize to a more affordable lifestyle and get on with your life.
She also “needs” money for clothes. skincare and yoga. She claims she “needs” 11K a month for clothes. Sounds a bit self indulgent to me.
“she should be able to continue with the lifestyle that she’s accustomed to.”
Why should she?
It doesn’t seem excessive to me. If he’s making that much and she makes $30k a month or something, and they have a $50k/month mortgage plus she has to pay for help with the pets, food and medical, I could see her needing that amount. Eventually she’ll probably sell the house, but it seems like they’re still hashing out property and stuff. I don’t know. It doesn’t seem like she’s asking for a plastic surgery budget, KWIM?
The way you explained it makes sense. Thank you for that!
By the way, I made the mortgage figure up, but was just assuming that it was a quarter of their joint monthly income.
i agree with you BendyWindy. Also – it is really expensive to have someone come to your house to care for pets if you are away, especially if you are an actress/actor who is expected to travel for work. It cost nearly $500 for my dog to be boarded and the cat to have a once a day cat sitter visit when I went on a 10 day vacation. I live in sticks where these services are fairly cheap. Put that in LA and multiply by 4 – and that is a lot of money if she should have to travel one week a month.
I agree. As I said below, they set up their lifestyle based on making a combined almost $200,000 per month. And now that lifestyle is on the shoulders of the person making far less.
And I doubt she can legally sell the house right now, she can’t do anything with it until they’ve reached an agreement. So she just has to keep paying a mortgage, maintenance, etc.
If anything, maybe this will encourage him to sit down and get an agreement done so they can go their separate ways. But in the meantime, he should pay up
But it IS asking for a clothing budget of $11K a month. Which, I get that she’s in LA, but really?
It also says she is only asking for that amount until the divorce is finalized. So, it does sound like he is sticking her with their joint liabilities. I see people complaining about her $11k a month budget for clothing, which is extravagant to be sure, but why should she have to give up her extravagances if he is not paying his half of the expenses and just living up life.
Why does she have to have extravagances? I also note that she’s not claiming any money to maintain a large monthly donation to charity.
Well, why should she not. My counter is basically why does she have to give up all hers to cover his? I assume the money he would be stiffing her on their joint obligations is not going to charity either.
So basically we’ve established that they’re both gluttonous pigs and neither are worthy of our sympathy.
But she’s asking for 11k for clothes, which is ridiculous.
Huh? What is that money really being spent on? No way pets need that much every month.
Does she need another cat? I’d take the job. I’d get to lie around all day and in exchange get full medical and dental benefits, caviar twice a day, and a special babysitter if she actually comes up with a job.
Can you imagine showing up at your job and saying, “I’m sorry, I couldn’t prepare that proposal because my pets prevented me from working”?
Why not. She deserves it. Come on Ryan $37K is not much for somebody like you.
Why? She was married for only 6 years. Based on the income listed she makes more a month than many people make in a year. I’m not saying that she shouldn’t get anything but 37K on top of her 30K per month?
And I heard he is still offering to help with the mortgage…so she should take several seats.
Why exactly does she deserve it?
Because he’s a douchebag and supposedly cheated on her.
If she makes a quarter of his income, she’s making over $30,000 a month, a little over $450,000 a year. I’ve always liked Mandy and I understand that might be a small income in their world, but asking him to double her monthly income absolutely seems excessive. He should be helping her out with their pets, though.
It’s not just about pets. It’s also the mortgage, which they agreed to take on together. And house maintenance.
It seems crazy to us, but their lifestyle was arranged based on a combined income of nearly $200,000 per month and he contributed most of that.
I personally believe that he should pay the $37k or some other amount until the house is sold or rented(it might not be a smart move to sell right now, that’s for them to decide). She clearly needs to downsize but he’s also not helping by not taking the pets which he said he would take. Trying to relocate with 8 pets would be hard.
I don’t think he should pay the $37k long term, but he should have to help out with household expenses until they’ve reached an agreement on what to do with the house and pets.
It’s probably to cover cattery, kennel fees if she is away or a house sitter. It still seems insane if she’s claiming it’s mainly for the pet care.
Also, if he’s such a douche why would you even consider separating the cats and giving him 2 out of the 4??
Whta kind of pet sitter would cost 37k a month?
I have no clue, but I’d imagine she’s claiming it’s a combination of that, food, vet care, insurance etc.
It does sound as if she’s way exaggerating the amount required if it’s solely for the pets.
By pet care, I believe she also means housing. So mortgage, maintenance, etc
What is it with the posts today? Has everybody lost their minds.
“I feel as if I have no alternative,”
Well Mandy, I have an alternative. If you can’t come up for your expenses of your lifestyle, than maybe you need to take it down a notch. It’s not like one needs a mansion.
Should he be helping with the animals and either take some of the cats or pay her some money? Sure, but that obviously doesn’t cost 37k a month or even a year.
I’m afraid I just don’t get spousal support in cases like this. No children, they both work etc.
It’s just not a thing in my country.
Exactly. She’s successful in her own right (maybe not as much as him, but still…) and can certainly support herself and her pets. If the house is too expensive then sell it. By her own admission she makes almost half a million dollars a year. That may seem like peanuts to someone like her, but it’s a dream income for a lot of people! She could still afford a really nice place. And I don’t get spousal support, either. In cases of very long marriages, with children, where one of the spouses gave up a career to stay home to raise a family, that I get. But a six year marriage with no kids? Not so much. Cut your losses and move on.
Under 10 years, she doesn’t qualify to receive spousal share social security/Medicare benefits so I don’t get why she would be entitled to support. She needs to recognize the marriage is over and move out of that house if she can’t afford it on her own. Yes, he has an obligation to the pets but these amounts are ridiculous
She’s paying the mortgage and maintenance on their home. She cannot legally sell it without his consent. So she’s probably stuck with it until they reach a divorce agreement. Downsizing isn’t very easy when you’re in the middle of a divorce
I’m with you, Linn. He was more successful BEFORE they got married. It’s not like they’ve been married for 10+ years, had children and she supported him while he was a struggling music producer. If that were the case, then I’d say she deserves something.
Just because she married someone with more money and stayed married to him for 6 years does not entitle her to $37K a month in alimony IMO.
OMG, seriously? This is insane. I’m probably going to get flamed to hell for this but come on! First of all if you can’t afford the mansion, sell it and buy a smaller mansion. Also, I have three cats, two kids and a full time job. I make WAY less than either of these out-of-touch clowns and my kitties and children are surviving just fine.
Step into reality Mandy.
If you can’t take care of that many animals, then don’t have that many (not that they should take them back to a shelter). I have two cats and would love to have more but can’t afford them. Also, can’t afford your house payment, get a smaller house.
There is a simple rule: One should not have more animals than hands to pet them. So two cats are perfectly fine for a single person. 😉
Oh I agree with you there, Swack. Too many people treat animals like collectible items.
I so much admire people who adopt cats and dogs BUT…I waited FOREVER to get my first kitty because I knew I couldn’t afford one and I knew I didn’t have a big enough space for her—I lived in a small studio apt at the time. Then I actually moved out of my last apartment just to have more space for my second kitty. I’ve spent almost $3,000 in the past two years between hospital bills and vet check-ups for those two.
Hope your babies are doing well. Luckily my two are pretty low maintenance.
Maybe she doesn’t want to separate them? The cats are now used to eachother and see eachother like a kid would see its siblings. It would be cruel to separate them.
Do you know her cats and how they get along?
Unless some of the pets didn’t get along, I wouldn’t want to separate them either.
Never said to separate them.
Yeah, I cringed at the “he said he would take two cats” part. My boyfriend and I have lived together for 5 years, and we’ve rescued 3 cats and 2 rabbits together. I already had a cat of my own… so 6 pets total. And I would sell my car before I separated them from each other.
We take care of them together, but because they all bonded so quickly (and getting a pet is a lifelong commitment…), we’ve said from the start that I would take all of them if we split. It would break his heart, but splitting them up isn’t an option. He makes a lot more money than me, but I pay for their food, litter, pet sitting & vet bills myself because I’m well aware that it wouldn’t be fair (to them or him) otherwise.
http://www.eonline.com/news/722683/mandy-moore-ryan-adams-divorce-goes-to-the-dogs-and-cats-star-wants-ex-to-help-care-for-pets-and-pay-spousal-support
E! has the breakdown. It’s not $37K for just the pets. That’s the proposed spousal support total.
As per E!: “The actress and singer also states in her filing she pays more than $37,000 a month in expenses, which includes her mortgage, plus more than $11,000 for clothes, more than $3,000 for a housekeeper and more than $2,600 for pet walking, food, supplies and other pet care needs.”
So it makes a little more sense. The $11,000 for clothes is a little ridiculous, though.
This makes more sense to me, actually. $11,000 for clothes is absurd, why should he be helping to pay for her clothes? BUT, if they haven’t settled the property stuff (including the fur babies) then I see no reason why she should be paying for it. He clearly hasn’t been receptive to sorting this out or throwing her some cash behind the scenes to help with those costs. I’m really surprised they only spend $2,600 a month on pet care. I live in DC and daycare for my dog is $40 a day, its $60 per night if we want to board him. Average cost for a dog walker to come by the house and take him on a 10 minute walk is about $25 per 10 minutes.
I read elsewhere about the clothing budget, and it immediately made me think she was being unreasonable. Who spends 1/3 of their income on clothes!?
I see no reason why he should be paying support, she works and makes a very decent living, and he’s paying half of her mortgage and home expenses, which I think is more than fair. If they adopted all those pets together, I could see asking for a reasonable amount to share expenses, if he’s not going to have any of them live with him, but the whole thing just seems crazy. With all the people in showbiz who have to travel for work, I’m sure there are plenty of in home pet care services she can hire.
Based on this filing, it doesn’t sound like he is paying half the mortgage, it doesn’t sound like he is contributing to the financial cost of the home at all at this point. I don’t really get why she is still living there, but until property is settled, he should be contributing costs to the care of their joint property (the home and the animals.) I don’t think that she’ll walk away with the full amount of support she requested, but that may have been a negotiating tactic (ask for 100, expect to receive 75.)
I’m not sure why someone would think they are entitled to a clothing allowance as part of spousal support. The mortgage, animals and all related expenses that they once shared makes more sense..all of this considered, she must have caught him screwing around or something and this is her “revenge.” With all the blind gossip surrounding his shenanigans, I wouldn’t be surprised one bit. If I were her and caught him messing around, I would try to bleed him dry as much as possible too and then I would sell the house and start over somewhere new.
Celebrities crack me up. She’s struggling to live on 30k+ a month?!? They are so out of touch.
Hmmm…so she was only making one quarter of what he was, yet they were splitting household expenses 50-50?
This guy sounds like a selfish jerk to me.
Right and given that celebrities are under pressure not to repeat their outfits and wear dresses that cost $2500 I don’t think $11K is all that much given her career.
That’s a whole lot of pets! I can just handle my *one* cat, let alone multiple cats and dogs.
(imagines Moore and Adams cutting all their cats’ nails)
I have four cats, and cutting one rabbit’s nails is a FAR bigger ordeal… two of my cats let me do it while they sleep.
she’s not asking that much money for her pets, it’s spousal support. which is ridiculous, she’s young and she can work. i only agree on spousal support if there are children, because in that case it could be harder to work, otherwise earn your own money. she’s not coming across well at all.
Maybe if she didn’t have a housekeeper she could afford to pay for all those bags of Cat Chow? Just a thought.
I hope they’re not on dry food!
What-this is a practice marriage? Instead of children they had animals?
this is why i could never imagine marrying in hollywood….. you get married for 6 years….. now i have to support you…. when you are all on the news with a new bf and you want 37 – 65k because you dont make enough….. ummmmmm no
i probably will end up a world traveling cat lady with cactuses
That money is obviously for her, not the pets. This is no different than that model asking for 50k/month for “child support.” No comment on the fact that she’s trying to dump off half of her pets, an offence for which I’ve seen others get skewered in the comments. Get a job, Mandy.
Besides that, I don’t buy for a minute that this dude makes that much money. I’d never even heard of him until that incident a few weeks ago where he was accused of fiddling Taylor Swift. None of his music was familiar, either. Who is he??
He’s an indie artist, has a bit of a cult following. Had a few hits here and there, “Come Pick Me Up”. He covered Swift’s 1989 album recently, which IMO was a bit of a cash grab for him. I have it and it is interesting to hear her music in a much different light…anyway, he also has live shows etc. If anything, I’m actually surprised to learn she makes so little. Less than 500k a year? That must be just from royalties with past projects. She needs to get a steady income.
He writes and produces, and tours a lot – I absolutely believe he makes this much money. That’s where money comes in for recording artists, by the way – a lot of those artists you’ve heard of don’t actually make much money at all because they’re performing songs other people wrote and they don’t tour.
Couldn’t a tiny bit of the amount requested be revenge money? Cheated on, embarrassed, will ask for cash money to make it better. 🙂
For some reason you’ve omitted the part where she’s also expecting him to subsidize the $11k a month she spends on clothes. She’s making (supposedly) $30,000 a month. She can pay her own way on that one.
I am obviously in the minority thinking $37/mo is fairly reasonable for their circumstances.
When a couple buys a home and establishes a life together there is the expectation of both partners contributing to maintain it. If one partner breaks marriage vows, why should the other partner have to entirely retool his/her life?
A commitment was made to those animals, too. And yes, I totally get how being responsible for caring for them can get in the way of traveling for work commitments, and Moore having to turn down income-producing opportunities. Actors do not keep regular hours; explain that to a dog or cat who depends on you for their emotional and physical well-being. Finding suitable trustworthy care for one’s pets and giving access to one’s home is a dicey proposition in one’s stead.
$11K/mo probably buys one and a half new outfits a month including shoes. Mandy’s appearance is important for her career. Designer clothes are expensive; this seems reasonable.
I am surprised Adams income is $151K/mo. But taking a mere $37K out of that towards shelter and supporting the lifestyle they agreed to seems quite reasonable. It still leaves $114K/mo income for him! Moore isn’t even asking for half of his share.
Maybe they can negotiate a tiered agreement of X amount for this many years and prearrange a reduction to another amount after awhile.
I don’t understand how 4 cats + 2 dogs equals 8 pets though?
And I felt ill about humankind after reading the contempt-filled comments on the DM degrading Moore! What a sad show of humanity: people were so rude and insulting of Moore! The comments were not only sexist, they were not based in fact. May such kneejerk blameful ignorance and malevolent scathing condescension and assumptions never find their way into a jury.
I do hope people stop blindly being such jerks to the female half of this couple. It’s not like she has a history of being a diva, of being superficial, being arrogant and precocious, committing adultery, or self-destruction….as Adams actually does. This was not a 6-minute or 6-month marriage either. 6 years is substantial.
While I have never interacted with Moore, I like what I know of her from afar, and I hate that people are quick to give her a bum rap. And Adams, despite his reputation, was always kind to me on the occasions we have interacted. I hope Moore and Adams work this out to their satisfaction; theirs (and their pets’) is all that matters.
Thanks for your post. I agree with everything you said.
Why should he pay for stuff that she needs for her career and that she can’t afford? This is what seems so weird to me.
Maybe the idea is that being able to go to events and network, get her face out there, will lead to future work for her.
$37K???And that’s just barely covers the cats and dogs Kung-Fu lessons!!!!
God it must suck having all your financial details hashed out in public because of a divorce. I’m not judging, things may be very complicated and maybe it will take a while to start over. You just never know what happened.
I am just here to look at cat photos!
Clothing budget $11K/month. Is that celebrity code for publicist?
Her friendship with Minka Kelly makes so much sense now.
And $11k on clothes? Really? She always looks so basic whenever I see pics of her, like she shops almost exclusively at the Gap. Maaaaybe J. Crew, since her costs are so high. That is a ridiculous amount, especially for the outcome she’s achieving.
This is ridiculous. And it’s not about pets. Basically, her career is in the crapper and she’s looking to get set for life.
Wait a minute: she gets a cheque for Tangled and “Sheriff Callie ‘ s Wild West”, so how could she possibly need financial support…?
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Gee, she could get a job or something? Didn’t she used to be Mandy Moore?