By A. Scott Walton
How much should it cost a billionaire to make a paternity lawsuit go away?
The French fashion mogul, Francois-Henri Pinault, may soon find out.
Pinault - who is currently married to the sultry Spanish actress Salma Hayek – is being sued for more than $500,000 per year in child support by the cover girl, Linda Evangelista, who’s famously quoted as saying: ‘I don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day’.
Evangelista, now 46, went to a Manhattan Magistrate’s court this week to request a minimum of $46,000 per month for the care and feeding of the four-year-old boy Pinault helped her to conceive. Pinault (49), the chief operator of such brands as Gucci and Yves St. Laurent, dated Hayek off and on for years before marrying and fathering a child with her two years ago.
In the latest Forbes listing of the world’s 100 richest people on the planet, Pinault came in at a respectable No. 67, with an approximate wealth of $7 billion. Considering how many yachts, automobiles, homes and private jets he must own, the sum Evangelista’s asking for should seem like chump change to him.
If you were Pinault, would you simply pay up and keep peace at home?
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