MARCH 2--Five months after filing for divorce from Lionel Richie, the singer's estranged wife has just weighed in with a whopping--and remarkably detailed--demand for at least $300,000 in monthly support payments. According to Diane Richie, 37, the couple has led an "extraordinary extravagant lifestyle" and that she had "no limit on what I could spend," according to the below Los Angeles Superior Court declaration filed last week. The Richies, who wed in December 1996 and have two young children, lived in a $40 million Beverly Hills mansion, with its 30 rooms spread over 18,000 square feet. "In addition to nine full time staff members, we also employ people to maintain our plants, detail our cars, care for our pool, groom our dog, maintain our aquarium and a painter for regular touch ups on the house," noted Richie. She also made sure to point out particular monthly expenses that Lionel, 54, needs to cover: clothing, shoes, and accessories ($15,000); dermatology ($3000); laser hair removal ($1000); massages ($600); jewelry ($5000); gifts ($5000); and vitamins ($500). There are plenty of other costs Richie listed--like $20,000 annually for plastic surgery and her nine-year-old son's $125,000 boarding school tuition--but TSG will let you discover those chestnuts. According to Richie, she began dating the pop star in 1984, when they met at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (she was an 18-year-old dancer). Since those teen days, the performer "paid my rent and/or mortgage, purchased automobiles for me, and regularly bought me expensive gifts," recalled Richie. (9 pages)

Read the court filing here:

http://www.thesmokinggun....ediv1.html

Good for her. Fuck Lionel Richie. Karma is a motherfucker.

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

Definitely. And hookers DO need their respect and whatnot.

It's time to welcome her into the real world.

so he was married to someone else when he adopted nicole? i'm a bit confused.

jessyMD32781 said:

He was married to his first wife, Brenda, when they adopted Nicole.

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

If he pampered his wife to this extent, I can only assume his child-raising skills are similar. Hence Nicole is a useless druggie socialite.

"she began dating the pop star in 1984"


during that time,I thought Lionel was happy with his wife Brenda.Didn't they adopt Nicole around that period?

The guy on my left shoulder says "Man, he oughta OJ that ....."

And the guy on my right shoulder says "Aw, Love Won't Find A Way. That's sad."

What is with all the laser hair removal? Whatever happened to Gillette and Nair?

$500 to $1000 a month for computer lessons? S***, I'm in the wrong field of work.

DavidEye said:

Don't you remember the famous fight between Lionel, Brenda and Diane? Hence, my above statement about him. The more I think about it, Diane shouldn't get anything in the divorce.

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

yeah,I remember that fight...lol...in many ways,it ruined more than just his marriage.Lionel never had another hit record after that.His "nice-guy-singing-sweet-love-songs" image was destroyed forever.

otan said:

Ummm how could Linole afford that, it's not like his still making buckets of money? Someone told a strange story about Nicole, that she was the baby of someone in his band and he adopted her, what is the truth?

rainman1985 said:

Nicole is the biological daughter of Peter Michael Escovedo,the brother of Sheila E.She was adopted by Lionel and his wife Brenda in the mid-80s.