Supermodel Linda Evangelista, who has graced catwalks and magazine covers galore, has revealed that father to her son, four-year-old Augustin James, is wealthy businessman Francois-Henri Pinault, husband of Salma Hayek. Evangelista always claimed Augustin's father was a New York-area architect, despite ending a five-month relationship with the 49-year-old Frenchman just before he started dating Hayek and she revealed her pregnancy.
Now now she has filed a petition in court seeking an unspecified amount in child support. Evangelista filed in New York, and New York law states that a non-custodial parent pay 17% of income as child support.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek figures that Pinault earned $5.4 million in salary in 2010 for his family's luxury goods business, which is worth an estimated $16-18 billion. If the estimates are accurate, Pinault may owe $920,000 in child-support payments. Augustin James is his second child; he has a daughter from a marriage that ended in 2004 and with Hayek, a daughter, Valentina Paloma, born in 2007.
If you have questions about child support in Charlotte, call an attorney with the Law Offices of David P. Sheehan for a consultation at (704) 332-5858.
