Jaime King’s estranged husband Kyle Newman claims she’s 9 months behind in support payments

Jaime King’s estranged husband, Kyle Newman, claims she’s not paying hercourt-mandated child and spousal support leaving him “in dire straits.”

In court documents obtained by Yahoo Entertainment, the Fanboys directorsays his actress and model ex, from whom he split in May 2020, is nine monthsbehind in support. Per their agreement established earlier this year, King isto pay at least $429 in child support and $1,000 in spousal support eachmonth. She hasn’t and Newman, who shares sons James, 9, and Leo, 7 with King,claims he’s broke as a result.

“Jaime has historically been the breadwinner of this family while Kyle’scareer as a writer and director was put on hold so that Kyle could be thestay-at-home parent,” the declaration says, citing King’s many roles on TV (Heart of Dixie ) and in movie ( Sin City, Pearl Harbor ). “They lived anupper-class lifestyle, living in and remodeling their former family residencein the Trousdale Estates section of Beverly Hills, they drove luxury cars,traveled to exotic destinations and also regularly employed several full-timenannies to help care for their children .”

Newman — who welcomed another child with girlfriend Cynthia Nabozny in 2021 —claims King “has refused to pay … child or spousal support at all, leavingKyle and their children in dire straits. While Jaime still has several nannieshelp her care for the children Kyle has not been able to afford childcare …and has fallen deeply into debt, including having to withdraw funds from hisretirement account just to meet his monthly expenses. **** also hasconsiderable credit card debt and owes money to family members.”

Their current support schedule — which also includes 26 percent of King’ssalary if she earns over $175,344 per year (under the Ostler/Smith order) —was implemented in April and he’s still not been paid, he claims. Further, healleges that King “completely drained” retirement accounts they shared of over$500,000. She also listed the family home for sale for $2.8 million withoutNewman’s knowledge or consent, and the proceeds of approximately $1.5 millionare now frozen in escrow.

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While Newman has resumed working as a director and is trying to re-establishhis career, he can’t afford his $6,000 rent or cover child care costs. Also,his legal fees continue to grow — and claims that is due to King “engaging inbad faith custody litigation,” including frequently changing her lawyers andfiling “baseless” court motions. He also claimed King originally tried to selltheir family home and receive only $75,000 from the sales in an effort to keepNewman from getting money.

He alleges that King is refusing to disclose her income earnings, so he has noidea how much she is actually making. However, he notes her lead role andproducer title in Netflix’s Black Summer in 2021 resulted in a $616,000paycheck alone. That year, her movie Out of Death with Bruce Willis and_Code Name Banshee_ with Antonio Banderas have been released.

While this is all being sorted out, Newman wants $700,000 from the house saleto pay for his legal fees. Also, he wants King to be sanctioned in the amountof $50,000.

King and Newman were married for 12 years when King filed for divorce in May2020. She also filed a domestic violence prevention petition and an emergencymotion related to child custody and visitation, as well as a temporaryrestraining order. Newman filed for sole custody of their sons in November ofthat year. They have since been battling over the support as well as custodyand visitation.

A rep for King has not yet responded to Yahoo’s request for comment.