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Denise Richards “Hush Money” Claim Is Worthless

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1:06 pm, April 7th, 2011

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“Denise Richards Stays Mum While Charlie Sheen Torpedos His Truth,” reads a headline on EOnline, which claims Richards is staying silent about her ex’s antics in an effort to ensure he keeps paying child support for their two daughters.

According to EOnline, before Sheen was fired from “Two and a Half Men,” Richards simply used her ex-husband’s escapades “to help milk her own TV appearances.” But now that he’s out of work, contends the site, she’s staying mum for fear that he’ll cut her off.

EOnline writes that Richards “is making extra efforts to ensure that regular ‘n’ hefty child-support check (not to mention a few other ones) continues to make its way into her bank account.”

The site, however, is a little off-base.

Firstly, Richards was mum on Sheen’s antics long before he was fired from his hit show, and certainly didn’t use him to “milk” press for herself.

In fact, after Sheen imploded naked and drunk at the Plaza Hotel, Richards upheld her TV commitments to promote “Blue Mountain State” the very next day, and completely refrained from commenting on his meltdown.

Secondly, Gossip Cop knows that after Richards and Sheen split – due to California’s community property law and his big-time residuals from syndication – the Wild Things star doesn’t need any so-called “hush” money.

Lastly, child support is not like spousal support. It’s court-mandated, and if a father fails to pay it, he can be arrested and even go to jail.

As Richards herself just tweeted at EOnline, “4 the record child support is just that. Its not ‘hush’ money, I get it if I open my mouth or not. I am not paid to be quiet!”

The reason, as Gossip Cop has learned, that Richards has remained mum for years is that she’s the mom of his daughters.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kaliko-Reed/696627328 Kaliko Reed

    This is stupid. She has always been very graceful about the whole thing, and has always tried to keep her kids’ best interests in mind. She also seems genuinely concerned about their freaky father’s welfare, even if he’s not always concerned about hers. I think she’s a great example of how to be a real, classy woman.

  • tupackacoors

    I degree with kinko say above. she just worrie she not get her moneys and dont’ care bout no kids. like kinko says above she a real exlampel of a trashy wemons

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Luna-Petunia/100000789652822 Luna Petunia

    Ted C. has been going down hill for the past year, like he is just making up stuff now, probably is. Alot of us called him on it, the court mandated support. I just figure with Charlie Sheen, the way he is, mentally unstable, WHY WOULD YOU SAY ANYTHING? Denise R. is no rocket scientist, but look what happened with the dogs? Calling her a dog kidnapping etc,, etc. If she were to answer the paps, or imagine! call a NEWS CONFERENCE! Yes, she would get a crowd for that one time and what would Charlie Sheen do? Launch an all out attack! Go on his internet show, dedicated to HER, twitter away to his one million plus followers about HER, part of his road show would be about HER! and alot more. He has more money, and is alot more crazy, so more paps, more people TUNE IN. and he would probably THREATEN TO KILL HER and of course deny it and turn it around, say she threatened him. and in the end, THEY HAVE 2 YOUNG DAUGHTERS TOGETHER, these girls are not that young, they go to school, they must hear from other kids that ‘my daddy says your daddy is crazy’. They do not need to hear that crap. CS , if he is faking this crap, or part of it, whatever, he is a selfish B. He is not thinking of his kids like he keeps preaching. For once, and I have never thought much of DR, she is keeping the kids out of it, away from crazy daddy and the press. and even with the show being cancelled, CS should still have millions, not affecting child support for awhile, esp. with his road show.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Laquita-T-Hodge/1085139331 Laquita T. Hodge

    She’s never publicly commented about anything that has to do with him, no matter how bad he made her look. Child support is court ordered and they’re right, if he stops paying then he gets arrested and she gets back pay from every month he missed. If she does get alimony, how is that hush money? It’s not. I’ve always admired that she’s chosen not to say anything about him, even when they were pressing her on The View she just said that this isn’t anything new to her. She has kids to think about and it’s hard explaining to your young children why your father is acting like an idiot on the radio & tv. She said ot’s very hard to explain the drug use. Unlike him, she doesn’t have to bash her ex.

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