Kevin Costner revealed that his living situation also wasn’t ideal after he and his first wife, Cindy Silva, initiated divorce proceedings in 1994. “Upon separation, I found myself without a home base and unable to live in my own home,” he revealed in his second divorce declaration. “I never wanted this to happen again.”
Costner and Silva were college sweethearts who had been married for 16 years when they decided to call it quits. At the time, Costner had established himself as one of Hollywood’s most in-demand leading men, appearing in future classics such as “Field of Dreams” and “The Bodyguard.” He also starred in and directed the Oscar-winning film “Dances with Wolves.” But it seems that he didn’t ask Silva to sign a prenup before he was blessed with so much success, as he was reportedly ordered to pay her $80 million. This caused Costner’s net worth to take a big hit and earned him a spot on the 2008 Forbes list of Hollywood’s costliest divorces.
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According to Variety, Costner was getting paid $1.3 million per episode of “Yellowstone” when he exited the series, so today, he’d have to film over 60 episodes of the show to recoup the financial loss from his first divorce. According to legal docs obtained by People, Costner promised Christine Baumgartner a relatively paltry $1.5 million in their prenup. However, she didn’t want to accept the payout outright, as doing so would preclude her from challenging the prenup.
