The actor is going through a tumultuous personal time after suddenly breaking up with businesswoman Christine Baumgartner, being caught in love with two women in a restaurant, still wearing a wedding ring.
At the beginning of May, one of the most secretive actors in Hollywood came into the spotlight. Kevin Costner is shocked by the news that his wife, Christine Baumgartner, to whom he has been married for 18 years, has filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences”. According to a source close to the interpreter and director, this request would leave him “lonely and bewildered” and as the days passed, the North American press began to gather more information about the cause of the separation. suddenly.
As a result, the actor’s every move is now tracked with a magnifying glass, and a few days ago, the Daily Mail found an image of Costner embracing two women at the Milano restaurant in Las Vegas. On the postcard, the Yellowstone actor was smiling and he was also seen wearing his wedding ring. The photo in question was taken the day before the divorce was filed and in it are the chef and restaurateur, Laura Migliorini, and the venue manager and partner, Laura Trent, who defined the “male” visit. actors are “pleasant” extraordinary.”
A few hours after that photograph was taken, the actor received the divorce papers. The ex-model’s unexpected decision stirred the waters and opened the door to rumors. However, she remained silent, unlike Costner, who reacted through a statement sent to the TMZ portal. “It is with great sadness that circumstances beyond his control have occurred that have resulted in Mr. Costner being required to participate in a dissolution of marriage action,” the actor’s rep confirmed. “We ask that his, Baumgartner’s and his children’s privacy be respected as they navigate this difficult time,” he added in the letter.
Costner and Baumgartner have three children together and the actor’s ex-wife was the one who requested joint custody, which was accepted immediately. In this way, the procedures began to speed up in the midst of total secrecy and a few hours after the official announcements, a rumor began to gain strength: that Costner would have found out that a woman with whom he works on the set of the series from Paramount+, and with whom he would have had an affair, would be expecting his child. The denial also came quickly. “It couldn’t be further from the truth,” TMZ was told. “It’s unclear who started the rumor or even who allegedly got pregnant by Costner, but the story is false.”
Over time, the reason behind the divorce petition was known. As they told People magazine, the Yellowstone actor “knew” that Christine was “unhappy” because of her constant absences from home. “Christine wanted them to spend more family time at their house in Santa Barbara, but during the shoots Kevin wasn’t around much. Her absence was very hard on her,” the source expressed. “He has been obsessed since last year with the Horizon recordings, and she didn’t like that. He didn’t want her to embark on another project,” she added.
“Kevin hasn’t been home much due to work, the popularity of Yellowstone and the time demands of his other projects. In recent years he has been in great demand, ”added another source to the publication. “All that success has probably taken the family’s attention away from him a lot more than he thought. Since it didn’t seem like that situation was going to change, and it could probably get worse, it ended up causing tensions at home.”
Who is Christine Baumgartner, the ex-wife of Kevin Costner
The former model met the director of Dances with Wolves in 1998. “We exchanged phone numbers and I asked her if she didn’t mind if I called her in two weeks, I didn’t realize that could be insulting,” the actor told People magazine. . In September 2004 they got married in the huge ranch of the Hollywood star located in Aspen, Colorado and they were forming their family far from the flashes with the births of Cayden, Hayes and Grace, the youngest daughter.
Christine, born in California, always had a low profile, until she decided to abandon modeling and open her own company in 2004 with her best friend, Tamara Muro, with whom she launched a brand of handbags with her own designs: Cat Bag Couture. “Many acquaintances told me that they wanted a certain model of the handbag, so I started to create them for them and that’s how everything was born,” revealed the woman who used to be next to her husband at every Hollywood event she attended.
In dialogue with The Denver Post, Christine also recounted that in 2005 she began designing laptop cases and expanding her company with the support of her husband. “After I had the samples I decided to ask Kevin and he told me they were beautiful so I took the next step. I always liked fashion, styling, so being able to combine that with making something functional was perfect,” added Baumgartner, who made her way into the fashion industry with her original designs, but without accepting that her husband advertise your work. On the contrary, she always made her own way.