Mos Def has been told by a divorce judge to settle the divorce from his wife of 10 years out of court. The rapper was urged by Brooklyn judge, Justice Sarah Krauss, to talk the settlement over with his wife, Maria Yepes-Smith.

“Work it out, right now,” she told the two parties. “I have 50 cases here.”

Mos Def, born Dante Terrell Smith, filed for divorce in February, and was ordered to pay $10,000 a month in child support for the couple’s two daughters, aged seven and eight. Until then, the rapper had paid only $8,000 a month, claiming business ventures and obligations to his three other children prevented him from making the court ordered payments.

“I’m the only person who’s providing for my children,” Mos Def told Judge Krauss at the hearing in February. However, Yepes-Smith’s lawyer cited the commercials for the rapper/actor’s last film, 16 blocks, as reason for Mos to make the full payments.

“I’ve been seeing him in these commercials with Bruce Willis for his new movie,” lawyer Karen Blaustein said after the hearing. “I’m sure he made enough money to pay his child support for his seven and eight-year-old daughters.”


Source:hiphopdx.com

$10,000 a month for child support??? That sounds like lil too much. Sounds like the bitch just wants to cut herself in on the payments.
[Edited 6/30/06 22:25pm]

Does Mos Def even make 10 grand in a week.

That does seem like a lot, but what kind of lifestyle were they living before they broke up? Is there a house to maintain (property taxes)? Do the kids go to private school? It comes out to $120,000 a year which is not all that much if they've built up a certain lifestyle & now she's expected to maintain it all herself. Does she work? Why or why not? Did she work when they were together?

Lots of questions, this divorce shit ain't black & white...

I thought he recently married another woman.