Is E! entertainment correspondent Debbie Matenopoulos just getting back at her soon-to-be ex husband for telling everyone before her that he wanted a divorce?
In court papers, Matenopoulos’s ex, Jay Faires, claims that she’s a freeloader and he wants it to stop. He says she “pays for nothing” related to their multimillion-dollar Los Angeles home and demands that she either help pay the mortgage, agree to refinance, or move out and sell the home.
“Notwithstanding the fact that [Matenopoulos] earns at least $225,000 annually, she had her lawyers send my lawyer the cable bill and her cell phone bill to pay,” Faires says in the court docs. “If [she] wants to continue to live [in our home] and won’t agree to sell, she should be paying all expenses associated with her use and occupancy, i.e. the mortgages, property taxes, utilities, insurance, gardener, pool, alarm, etc.”
Not a bad salary, Debs!
He goes on to say that the property was recently valued at $4.3 million, but the former View hostess, “won’t even consider selling [the home] unless we receive somewhere in the neighborhood of $8 million.”
$1.5 million is still owed on the home and the mortgage payments are $11,671/month.
She should be able to pay some of that easily, right?
“[She] apparently believes that at some point in time [the home’s] value will increase by some $3.5 million. She also apparently believes that I … pay all expenses … while she lives there and pays for nothing, and waits for a real estate miracle to happen,” said the E! reporter’s soon to be ex.
Faires also admitted that as a couple they continuously lived beyond their means.
A hearing is set for February 23rd.
There’s been no comment from the Matenopoulos camp.
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