Theo Sterling

Empires fall. Lessons stay.

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@quazinov 500,000 rocks a day, coast to coast. Behind every one of those numbers were the neighborhoods that paid the real price

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@finpulse_x Her father on paper, a stranger in real life

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

Owen Wilson pays about $25,000 a month for a daughter he has never met. In court papers, under visitation, he checked the box for "none."

In the video below, from September, he is asked about being a father. He says: "My kids kind of liked, you know, my little character, Jedediah."

He has two sons. His daughter, Lyla, was born in October 2018, after a paternity test confirmed he was the father. This month she turned 8.

The court documents, reported in December 2019, also showed a one-time payment of $70,000 for a night nurse, a labor coach and her mother's legal fees. He agreed to put Lyla on his Screen Actors Guild health insurance.

Her mother, Varunie Vongsvirates, to the Daily Mail in November 2019: "He helps financially but it's never been about that." She added: "Lyla needs a father."

If you were her mother, would $25,000 a month be enough for you?

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@vebuw77090 New Mexico skipped the multistate settlement and bet on a trial. $25 billion says the bet paid off, unless the appeal says otherwise

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@Tolot0caw Small correction, it was a one-time payment, not one night. Night nurse is the job, not the time frame. But you’re right about the rest: the paperwork covered a nurse, a labor coach and legal fees, and under visitation it says ‘none.’

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@DemonJin86848 Exactly. He covers about $25,000 a month, a one-time $70,000 and her health insurance. Everything else is still unpaid

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@JaceClipz A decision he makes every month he sends the check and nothing else

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@Tolot0caw If the clearance specialist really knew she was on the ‘do not sample’ list, the request was doomed from day one. Why even make the track ?

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@monvyrn The one piece of good news here: reports say the IRS claim isn’t a personal debt for his son Prince

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@Noctaxbt Three degrees to touch his money. Most banks ask for less

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@sidequesttzxc The editor’s note says the article was submitted for his approval before publication. A cartel boss getting final edit on his own interview is wild

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@finpulse_x $50,000 was too high. $4,500 was real. The kids needed the real number years earlier

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@Tolot0caw Engaged in January 2016, over by October, settled in late 2017. A year of negotiating for a nine-month engagement does suggest there was more on the table than a move

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

Mariah Carey reportedly asked her billionaire ex-fiancé for $50 million after their engagement ended. Her reason: she had moved from New York to Los Angeles for him.

In the video below, James Packer says: "She thought I'd planted a story in a magazine about it, which I hadn't... And so she was threatening to say things about me."

He proposed in January 2016 with a 35-carat diamond. By October, it was over.

She never got the $50 million. In late 2017 they settled for an undisclosed sum, reported at $5 million to $10 million, and she kept the ring.

Months later, Page Six reported that she had quietly sold it for $2.1 million. Her publicist, May 27, 2018: "That requires leaving emotional and material baggage behind, including an old engagement ring from an ex-boyfriend."

Would you have asked him for the $50 million?

[Tolot @Tolot0caw]

https://t.co/cQmb6Pp6St

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@versivald Rugs, paintings, an elegant writing desk and a large radio. Even his prison cell in 1929 looked like he was the one running the place

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@JaceClipz In 2024 he declared there was no history of domestic violence, and in court he confirmed it was true when he made it. That’s going to be hard to get past

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@JaceClipz Fair math, but 37 charges in two weeks is still a lot of swiping for someone who says she was just keeping the life they had

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

Billy Ray Cyrus says his wife of seven months put $96,986 on his business card in the two weeks after he filed for divorce. $70,665 of it went to her lawyers.

In the video below, Firerose says what life on his farm was like: "I call it farm prison, because that's what it was for me."

They got engaged in 2022 and married on October 10, 2023.

When he filed, he asked for an annulment and said the marriage was "obtained by fraud."

The court record:
May 23, 2024: he files for divorce, citing "inappropriate marital conduct."
May 23 to June 7: 37 charges on his American Express business card, $96,986.05 in total, according to his filing.
July 2024: a judge bars her from using any of his cards.
August 5, 2024: they are divorced. She leaves with $0. He hands over his claims to credits and royalties on the songs they made together.

Her side: she had used his card since 2022 with no limit and says she was keeping the life they had. Her lawyers: "To claim Wife has made 37 unauthorized charges is untrue."

His statement after the divorce: "This has been absolutely the most crazy insane scam I have ever heard of."

The case for Firerose: she says she wasn't allowed to freely come and go from her own home, and she left with $0.
The case for Billy Ray: two weeks, 37 charges, and most of it paid her own divorce lawyers.

Was she owed that money, or did she run up his card on the way out?

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

Liberace's live-in companion sued him for $113 million. He walked away with $75,000, three cars and three dogs.

Liberace hired Scott Thorson in 1976. Thorson was 17. In April 1982, four of Liberace's representatives forcibly removed him from the Los Angeles mansion.

On October 14, 1982, Thorson, 23, sued Liberace, 63, in Los Angeles Superior Court. He said they had a "personal services agreement": he would be chauffeur, companion and lover, and in return he received a salary, an equity interest in real estate and promotional profit.

The court record:
$113 million: what Thorson sued for, in what is described as the first same-sex palimony case in the US
1984: in depositions, Liberace said Thorson was never his lover
1986: the case settled
$75,000 in cash, plus three cars and three pet dogs valued at $20,000: what Thorson received
February 4, 1987: Liberace died

The suit said the agreement made Thorson give up school and his plans to be a dancer and composer, to work for Liberace full time.

The case for Thorson: he spent his youth at Liberace's side, and his lawyer said they could "show a personal services contract existed."

The case for Liberace: Thorson was an employee, and Liberace told the court he was never his lover.

In the video below Thorson says: "I really, really got shafted in the deals. I mean, they made me out to be a liar, a disgruntled employee, a gold digger, and they blackballed me from Hollywood."

Was Thorson owed a share of Liberace's fortune, or was he paid what an employee was worth?

[Jace @JaceClipz]

https://t.co/gIUd6VYPDv

[Theo Sterling @theosterlingx]

@versivald She married him on camera, left in 72 days, and later admitted she stayed for the show. Him keeping the ring is the cheapest part of that whole story