Woman Wants $1 Million Per Month in Spousal Support!

Jamie McCourt, the wife of Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, is asking for $988,845 per month in temporary spousal support.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

In filing for divorce in October, Jamie McCourt asked for $488,000 per month in temporary support. The revised request -- for $988,845 per month -- reflects property-tax bills as well as additional records that her lawyers claim can show the couple averaged $2.3 million per month in salaries, distributions and perks starting in 2004, when the McCourts bought the Dodgers.

Frank McCourt still would have $1.3 million per month to maintain his lifestyle, her lawyers wrote.

"Jamie fully recognizes that the . . . award which she will be seeking will be viewed by many people as being astronomical," according to the filing. "That may very well be the case. But Jamie's request also has been thoroughly documented . . . as being wholly consistent with the parties' marital lifestyle."

In an attempt to minimize his financial exposure for possible divorce proceedings, her lawyers allege, Frank McCourt and his advisors used "blatant balance sheet manipulations" in providing a June 2009 financial statement estimating his net worth at $163 million -- nine months after estimating his net worth at $835 million in another statement.

The court will hear Jamie's case next month.


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