I think these news reporters do a better job promoting red pill \ Anti marriage than any of us could have. If a wealthy, famous, respected, good looking actor like Robert DeNiro can't figure out how to make the marriage work then what hope does the average joe have?
Actor Robert De Niro has claimed the coronavirus has decimated his finances and he “may only make” $7.5 million (£6m) this year, as he fought in court to limit his estranged wife’s expenses.
The Irishman star’s former partner, Grace Hightower, has claimed in divorce proceedings taking place in Manhattan, New York, that De Niro “unfairly” cut her monthly credit card allowance from $100,000 to $50,000.
Lawyers for De Niro, 76, say he reduced Ms Hightower’s American Express card limit because he has taken a huge financial hit as Nobu and Greenwich Hotel, two restaurant chains he has stakes in, were forced to close or partially close during the Covid-19 lockdown.
He also says he has been limited in his acting work by the virus. Caroline Krauss, his attorney, said a film project that he was scheduled to begin filming this summer in Oklahoma has been put on hold.
Ms Hightower, 64, a singer and actress, also alleged that she and their children had been banned from an upstate New York estate where De Niro is staying during the pandemic.
“His accounts and business manager says that the best case for Mr De Niro, if everything starts to turn around this year, … he is going to be lucky if he makes $7.5 million this year,” Ms Krauss said.
“These people, in spite of his robust earnings, have always spent more than he has earned, so this 76-year-old robust man couldn’t retire even if he wanted to because he can’t afford to keep up with his lifestyle expense,” Ms Krauss said, adding that De Niro has begun cutting back spending “dramatically.”
Kevin McDonough, acting for Ms Hightower, told the judge at the Manhattan Supreme Court: “the idea that Mr De Niro is tightening his belt is nonsense.”
“Mr De Niro has used the Covid pandemic - my words would be - to stick it to his wife financially,” Mr McDonough said.
“I’m not a believer that a man who has an admitted worth of $500 million and makes $30 million a year, all of a sudden in March he needs to cut down [spousal support] by 50 percent and ban her from the house,” he told the judge.
De Niro, who married Ms Hightower in 1997, filed for divorce in 2018. The couple have two children: Helen, eight, and Elliot, 21.
Ms Hightower has asked for half of De Niro;s estimated $500m fortune, despite a 2004 prenuptial agreement that his side insists limits her to a $6m apartment, $500,000 cash and $1m a year in alimony.
Matthew Cooper, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice, issued a temporary ruling that De Niro should keep Ms Hightower’s credit card limit at $50,000 a month and pay her $75,000 so she can find a summer home for their two children while De Niro and his children from another partner remain in his three-house estate.
PeterPansSyndrome 3y ago
Cheaper to keep her, even cheaper to kill her.
redpillcad 3y ago
wealthy, famous, respected, good looking actor
Its Briffault law.
What does she lose by leaving?
not much
dopexile 3y ago
Especially considering the court is going to let her run away with millions of his money. It is like having your cake and eating it too.
BasedAndRedPilled_ 3y ago
To be fair, most celebrity marriages are like this. It’s hypergamy folks, women date up, therefore if a woman is more successful, her dating pool is smaller. Considering his wife is both a singer and an actress, about his social rank, this shouldn’t be surprising. Also he’s not that good looking.
Ed4all15 3y ago
De Niro could still pull anyone he wanted....she is very far below his SMV....she’s a 60+ yr old hag...
BasedAndRedPilled_ 3y ago
True, he isn’t the most attractive guy out there but his status alone could get him all the 20 something bitches he wants.
WaterHound 3y ago
But let's be real here. "Pull" is a loaded term in De Niro's case.
Sure, he could "pull" a much hotter woman than many of us could ever dream of bagging. But what is he actually "pulling"? They don't look at De Niro and think "I'm banging the Rock!" or "I'm getting me some Khal Drogo tonight!"
They're really thinking, "Access. Meal ticket. Status boost."
Not sure if that's really a "pull" to be proud of. Yes, Hollywood actors get the opportunity to bang a lot of young hot tail. But it's a devil's bargain. They're not biting because they find him viscerally attractive. They find access and status attractive. Not him.
RedHoodhandles 3y ago
Does it really matter in the end if she fucks you for your body (genetic, i.e the cards you've been dealt and hard work) or your status (hard work)? Pussy is pussy..
WaterHound 3y ago
You're not wrong. But I'm not talking about that. He married her. At that point, you have to distinguish whether the sex you're getting is a genuine appraisal of your value, or if they see the prizes on the other side as worth the sacrifice.
If he was just banging, then you're absolutely right.
I see Paul McCartney's situation from over a decade ago in a similar light. Bags a hot model. Later gets destroyed in divorce. Is Paul at that age really that enticing? Or did she do the status and money calculation and decide, "Win/Win"? I get to bang a rock legend for one night and tell the tale, or have a kid and never work a day in my life ever again.
Can't lose.
Psychological_Radish 3y ago
Anyone who says that "pussy is pussy" has never experienced genuine desire from a girl. Period full stop. Get a girl who flies across the county at her own expensive to fuck you and then come back and tell me it doesn't matter.
If she's banging you for status/money then you might as well just hire an escort. There's no real difference. It isn't an accomplishment, any guy with a decent job could theoretically bang an HB9 hooker somewhere.
RedHoodhandles 3y ago
And since you're quoting me you are implying that I never have enjoyed said genuine desire. You're cute. Here, have this cookie of internet -warriorness.
ArmoredXeno 3y ago
Status is a part of him. Therefore they fuck him because of him. Looks are important to men. Not as much to women. A hot homeless guy gets no pussy. A hot homeless woman would still get attention. Men are primarily attracted to looks and women are primarily attracted to behaviour/status (other stuff also plays a role but not as big). Seems to me like you just want to feel better off than De Niro.
WaterHound 3y ago
No, I'm speaking about the context of the discussion. If he was just banging em, then you have a point. But when LTR or marriage comes into the picture, my point about what you're pulling stands.
Sure, he's getting the sex, but then it dries up, and then the Piper comes back looking to get paid... a lot.
The lesson is that status does get you a boost in the sex department. But I think it's important to consider whether you're getting that sex from a genuine desire or a mostly "Look at the prizes," perspective, and then decide whether that's a keeper.
ArmoredXeno 3y ago
Totally agree on that. Perhaps I misunderstood. Along with status definitely come girls that only want to use you to get to the prizes. You probably meant that De Niro has to deal with more of those cases than an average guy.
syg111 3y ago
She’s about his rank? What? I’ve never heard of her - and the only places De Niro is not known are the places where people don’t know that things like films exist. Maybe some tribe in the Amazonas. She’s nobody and nothing compared to him. And as a European I like to read this posts simply as a kind of freak show. I like and admire America but even you guys in the Red Pill have lost the feeling for how far you’ve gone. You simply have no idea how submissive towards women, how beaten down you are compared even with Western Europeans you are; not to talk about Eastern Europe.
tyrryt 3y ago
Western Europe makes America look like Afghanistan. They actually take pride in being pussified, completely gynocentric, hysterical sjws. Eastern Europe, on the other hand, is luckily still 30 years behind this nightmare trend.
syg111 3y ago
To be clear - I’m a big fan of the (classic) USA. But Western Europe is these things you wrote mostly on paper. What’s missing is the blatant injustice against men. There is no affirmative action for women (they’re trying, and there is maybe here or there a little scholarship for women but there is also a backslash; Norway e.g. has abolished Gender studies as a whole). All this hysterical sexual harassment stuff is missing, there is child support, but with a strict upper limit; no alimony in Sweden and soon also not in Germany and so on. Definitely no children “transitioning”. As I said - I’m dreaming of the USA since I was child. But this limpwristed, high-pitched voice semi-gay sjw European guy will not allow the women to treat him like it’s possible in the USA. Lots of people make jokes about the French. But have you seen older French movies? Not only from the 60s but also from the 90s? You have female villains, you have young women in their 20s fucking old ugly guys and so on. The Italians (not counting some crazy lefties) didn’t took it lightly that for example Amanda Knox was so promiscuous and weren’t ashamed of it. For Americans she’s an angel.
BasedAndRedPilled_ 3y ago
In her mind she’s about his rank, it doesn’t matter what reality actually is, all what’s in her head. And yes, America is a shithole. My great grandfather didn’t fight in WWII for gay marriage, transgender children, legal weed, and 40% obesity rates. If he saw what this country would become, he would fly a kamikaze himself or join the Wehrmacht.
Edit: spelling, grammar
syg111 3y ago
I believe you that she probably sees herself on his rank, even if it’s pure madness. I once read the comment of a women (and the other women had the same opinion), that Elon Musk should have given half of his companies to his first wife when they divorced, because it’s not impossible, that she once said something, what could have led to an idea what could have led to one of his companies. The ex-wife herself never ever claimed something like this! But being not impossible, she should get half. But this is going on for a long time.
You’re like the frog in the boiling water. As a kid I watched “Kramer vs. Kramer”. I even then, and I really was a child, didn’t understand why the woman, after leaving the child with the father, simply got the child when she came back. And affirmative action for women is also completely bizarre.
What worries me the most is this transgender thing with children. This is cruel and heartless beyond belief. American men are an interesting case. Dominating the whole world via economy, military and culture; hyper masculine local culture (American football, MMA, steroid abuse, guns, large cars) - and not only completely submissive towards women, it’s more like the old cliché (still relevant in Eastern Europe) of the beaten wife, always defending her abusive husband. Really fascinating to watch.
SeasonedRP 3y ago
Traditionally conservative men in America are often religious, and churches here treat women as perfect and sinless, and teach men to obey them, and thus you have hyper masculine men being submissive to women. They are raised to be that way and can't imagine it being any different.
syg111 3y ago
Yes, but I guess (and I really have to guess, I’m not a scholar) that this is the influence of Protestantism, maybe also of Reform Judaism (Orthodox Judaism is very conservative). But it is strange, because the scripture is not that easy on women. I personally have an opinion (I can’t prove it) but maybe the relations to women are so sentimental because life was and is hard for the working man? Therefore he has a need to relax at home, have something like a second mummy? Nobody can be tough all the time. Life is not easy in Islamic countries and wasn’t easy in traditional Catholic countries. But they don’t and didn’t have this extreme competition at work. The more leisure time somebody has the more he can have an eye on family or general relations in the society. I guess that a lot of American men are angry but they can’t say anything because they are too vulnerable in the work place.
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throwlaja 3y ago
Why men marry? Why? I mean, there is no advantage, nothing in it for men. It's basically giving away half your money, with nothing in return. Absolutely nothing! Can't understand why people still marry. Why no just give her half your money from the start? it's easier that way.
It's for children? they don't care if their parents are married. Only perhaps a catholic priest do. And nowadays not even him. Can somebody explain to me, what is the reason men do marry today?
reddick1 3y ago
Honestly if you have kids and live together, the government will consider you to be married even without a contract. You are equally fucked no matter what.
Common law marriage.
bmw1999m3 3y ago
Bluepilled brainwashing. There is no other reason. Oh but "muh tax benefits"... yeah, like that outweighs all the risks /s
Ed4all15 3y ago
This is pretty much the same as knocking a girl up. You are gonna get fucked out of seeing the kid, and having an impact on raising them. Unless the woman is a like a crackwhore or something (not sure why you would want to fuck one of those raw anyway but...) You aren’t getting custody, and you will be fucked with child support.
throwawayandtossout 3y ago
I'll say it again, I don't recommend getting married unless you're able to find a woman who makes the same amount or more than you do.
dopexile 3y ago
I saw a statistic that a higher percentage of marriage end up in divorce when the woman earns more than the man.
throwawayandtossout 3y ago
Maybe, maybe not. But at least you won't be ass-raped in the court system like you would if you were the bread-winner.
ayhme 3y ago
Damn... what a greedy cunt bitch.
tyrryt 3y ago
How did this wind up in the global media cycle, if it wasn't submitted by deniro's team? Sounds like some kind of PR move, trying to reduce alimony payments.
buddhadarko 3y ago
Nothing shocking here, fellas. This is the game. What you can do for her financially or physically is always a factor in her mind. Love is a social construct. Protect yourselves by never needing to be protected. Marriage is just an idea and is proven to produce no benefit for men.
Former_Loser 3y ago
Lol. I am someone who is about to graduate from college and going to work on Wall Street (GS/MS/JPM) helping UHNW individuals & institutions amplify their wealth.
Reading TRP, posts like these have made me seriously lean towards going to law school so that one-day I can help & protect men with prenups and save them from divorce-rape.
Maybe I sound like an asshole, but that way I'd feel like my feel has some meaning, instead of being strictly about making money.
Divorce-rape is seriously beyond fucked up..
Rupturednutsack 3y ago
Lol he literally did this in casino, he marries ginger but sets aside only a portion of his money and some jewels because he knows the bitch won’t stay around forever, or that he might need to cut her loose. De Niro is smart, but knowing the feminist run family court system, I can see campaigns and even witch hunts against de Niro, newspapers, online opinion blogs, YouTube..
The world does not like a man who doesn’t give everything he owns to a woman.
sniper1905 3y ago
Obligatory video that is very ironic.
VasiliyZaitzev 3y ago
I prefer the version he gives to Val Kilmer.
OilGasWorker 3y ago
I repost this every so often for the youngsters, please google ; “married men post here if you hate your life” it’s a collection of blog posts from years ago, worth every minute of reading if you want to know about the consequences of marriage. Red pills all over the place.
ramaga 3y ago
Thanks for this. I just read some of the posts and they reinforced my decision to not get married despite every woman I've ever dated pressuring me to.
Marriage is a fool's game for men. Pre-sexual revolution, it made more sense--men got sex in exchange for commitment. But now that the cows are giving the milk away for free? Ha! Why commit to the lifelong feeding and stabling of just one when you can get free samples from many?
The only way I could see myself getting married is if it's a huge step up wealth or status-wise. If some billionaire's daughter wanted to marry me, for instance. Even then I'd likely not do it.
Obediah_Stane 3y ago
This is why I laugh anytime someone tells me "just get a prenup" when I say I won't get married.
HonkHonkBaby 3y ago
Depends. In Europe prenups have to be notarized and are actually binding.
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byng64 3y ago
Ummm dude, it's a little different getting a prenup to the at best 7/10 you get in your peak, to being a multimillionaire world leading Hollywood actor of the last 40 years.
TrashcanCity69 3y ago
I had a stroke reading this
jamescastillo76 3y ago
Is this rich people problems
comcain 3y ago
I kinda think DeNiro is a good actor but a dick personally, which describes a lot of Hollywood.
The poor thing is only pulling in 7.5 mill this year? Why, he's practically homeless!
I think these two deserve each other, actually.
BitchesBrew_MF 3y ago
His Trump Derangement Syndrome made him insufferable to listen to, so I have no sympathy for DeNiro here.
PrincetonNarcissist 3y ago
He doesn't like Trump so you don't care if he gets fucked over? Bizarre criteria but do you I guess.
woodensho 3y ago
I couldn’t spend $50k/month USD if my cock and balls depended on it
DavidDickTouch 3y ago
It's not easy. When you can buy anything at anytime, everything loses its value. I'm convinced that's why some rich people turn to philanthropy.
RealMcGonzo 3y ago
I cannot imagine spending that kind of cash, especially since he already paid for her 6 million dollar apartment.
Keith_Valentine 3y ago
What a greedy bitch. Thank god for TRP i will never marry. load of bullshit.
DrGandu 3y ago
Crazy how this shit went down with the prenup in place
B_ILL 3y ago
Moral of the story don't get married even with a prenup you can still get fucked.
dopexile 3y ago
Marriage is basically a contract with no terms or bounds that can change on the whims of society. If you get married today, you have no idea what the laws and rules for marriage will be decades from now when you might go through a divorce.
Anyone familiar with contract law knows that you cannot unilaterally change the terms of a contract without both parties agreeing. Marriage is like an extremely risky open-ended contract. Any laws regarding marriage are applied retroactively whether or not the parties agree.
Today courts selectively choose when to enforce prenup agreements. After 20 more years of feminism, they might be considered toilet paper. People that thought they protected themselves from the risk of divorce could end up feeling like schmucks in the end.
Ed4all15 3y ago
I’ll make this even more simple: marriage has no benefit to men in today’s Western society.
gbnz87 3y ago
My lawyer always tells me that the prenup is only useful for the first few years of the marriage. Where people fall down is if they prevent the woman from working or preventing their career from progressing or if kids get involved. Kids are usually what kills a prenuptual agreement.
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Of course this depends where you are in the world but there are other things you can do to lock up your money
RedDeadlift 3y ago
The woman could decide to put in minimal effort to look for a job and just sit at home, then later blame the husband for “limiting her”. It becomes he says/she says, with no proof either way. So the prenup can be thrown out even if the man encourages the woman to find work. I know a few guys who this has happened to.
gbnz87 3y ago
I think it's more so if you make her move house, move state, only have 1 car between the two of you, you give her more duties at home etc..etc.. where it gets more clear cut.
The court doesn't know or care if the woman is lazy. If you hold her back in any way she has a right to claim it.
Ed4all15 3y ago
Prenup is not rock solid.
close friend had one before he got married....long story short, girl cheated on him, and he filed for divorce. She is currently contesting the prenup that she signed 6 mos prior to the marriage, saying she signed it under duress.
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Buddy also was the breadwinner, and paid for her to sit at home sending nudes to other guys for over a year, and now he is getting fucked out of house and home, and her attorney is trying to bill him for her legal expenses as well...
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Ed4all15 3y ago
Probably, but at what cost? He is already over 40k in legal bills, plus his attorney is trying to convince him to give her half of his 401k, that he has been adding to since he was 19...he’s 33 now....all the while this broad never had a job, while they were married, and worse, she is trying to get him to sell HIS house, that he bought 2 years before they were married...bear in mind here, they hadn’t even been married for 2 years when he found out she was cheating and filed for divorce....don’t get married kids...
the_green_grundle 3y ago
Maybe he needs a better lawyer. Idk man but this shit ain’t right, shouldn’t be legal.
Tousen71 3y ago
Yikes. I’m still confused how any woman can justify the fairness of HALF. I get it, you’re giving up your prime years to raise a family and yada yada yada but HALF?
And you’re still mad at ONLY making 100,000 a month? Yeesh the entitlement with some of these celebrity wives.
You’re kids are grown and you’ve probably got a boyfriend on the side. At this point you’re getting paid to exist.
Either take what you’re given or get off the fucking dole and be a grown up.
Edit: Changed year to month.
laredditcensorship 3y ago
And you’re still mad at ONLY taking 100,000 a month?
FTFY.
Raccoon_from_heaven 3y ago
But but these celb females call themselves "indipendent woman", and still want their ex-husband's money?? How is that being indipendent??
machoking_your_gf 3y ago
100k a month my man. I agree, it's ludicrous.
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eddielovett 3y ago
Doesn’t it make perfect sense for her (and all women) to try and get as much money as possible? It’s not about being fair it’s about being smart. Only men have this idea to act honorably or like a “grown up” as you put it. Women are Machiavellian by nature.
Tousen71 3y ago
Sure. That’s basic game theory. But the arguments made in support of these kinds of obligations ALWAYS come from an ethical appeal.
“What is she supposed to do now that she’s older and out of the work force? It’s your responsibility as a man...blah blah blah.”
FalconWrite 3y ago
If all I cared about was getting as much money as possible with absolutely no personal creed or standards, I’d rob, steal and rape like a degenerate. And I’m a nihilist too, but I’ve decided that my self-assigned arbitrary value is more important than hedonism. Meritocracy is a lie that I still like the color of, so I’ve adopted it as my sacred superstition of modus. It’s beneath me to be no better than a basic greedy bitch that I wouldn’t respect as an ally, mentor or peer. Simple as that.
ryuamakusa_daq 3y ago
A male thief on average (so not all) is more principled than women in general. (Purely because of evolutionary reasons). Women don’t abide by game theory.
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gediwer 3y ago
Is it not possible to have a marriage but not legally? Like we have a ceremony but since we didn't apply for a marriage certificate we don't have a marriage in the law's eyes
Lasers_Pew_Pew_Pew 3y ago
Yeah, but there is such a thing as a common law wife/marriage. Basically if you live together for years and have children etc, then they can apply for a common law marriage and still get 'divorced' and take a share of things. It happens A LOT.
Although the best thing I saw was Mick Jagger not using a real priest to get married to Jerry Hall. So when she divorced him she was going after half. But only got 10 million instead of 200, because they didn't use a real priest and she didn't know. So the marriage wasn't official.
But he still had to give her millions that she didn't earn though, just less than she wanted.
gediwer 3y ago
And there is no way to dodge this shit. I mean if people here say that they are not going to marry but if they do end up falling into an LTR they can get sued with the 'common law' u just mentioned. So what is the use then?
VasiliyZaitzev 3y ago
"Common law" marriages only exist in certain jurisdictions. You have to know what you're about to avoid this sort of thing.
Lasers_Pew_Pew_Pew 3y ago
Yeah exactly. You are completely fucked if you do, and only slightly less fucked if you don't. It's crazy how money grabbing a lot of women really are when you get to know them. But it does seem to depend on the person. I've got female friends who have broken up with there partners and been totally cool. They're just cool people. A lot of the other girls though, a close friend especially who I've always seen as a really nice person, once I've seen the mask slip you can never unseen it.
She is a manipulative money grabbing dickhead. She is unbelievably self serving. Too many women barely see men as humans, they only see them for what they want from them.
SMRII 3y ago
De Niro literally banged children. Court documents in '98 revealed he was linked to a child sex trafficking ring.
He isn't a model for anything other than being a creep
ThrowawayBLmOai 3y ago
It's a shame cos DeNiro has been in some of the manliest and most redpill movies of all time.
The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Heat, The Irishman, etc.
VasiliyZaitzev 3y ago
He was also in "Dirty Grandpa", "The Bullwinkle and Rocky Movie", "Godsend" and "Little Fockers".
He has generational acting talent that has been on a fire sale for decades because he's a SIMP who can't control his wife.
ThrowawayBLmOai 3y ago
The Irishman was released last year, and is one of his best ever films. So he is still clearly capable of putting out great performances.
He was also in Joker.
VasiliyZaitzev 3y ago
Like I said, he has generational talent - But he has to make shitty movies because of his crazy spendthrift wife. Who he can’t control. Because he has no frame.
ThrowawayBLmOai 3y ago
I think he makes shitty films because it's easier. Its easier to phone in performances in crappy films and get a fat paycheck, than it is to challenge oneself mentally and emotionally in great indie films.
I imagine the on set experience of these films is much more laid back and fun than it would be on a Martin Scorsese flick.
Adam Sandler constantly stars in shitty comedies, but he makes bank from them and has a ton of fun doing them. However last year he did Uncut Gems which was one of the best films of 2019 and an absolutely amazing performance.
Btw I'm not disagreeing he lacks frame, I agree... I just find it sad that a BluePill guy like him is the one who is in the most RedPill movies of all time.
VasiliyZaitzev 3y ago
It's the $. If you look at when he started making truly shit films, it was within a couple of years of marrying his current wife. It's well known in the industry that De Niro will show up if you pay him.
That's how he started. He was an SNL guy, so he made frat comedies until he could start making more serious films. Arnold did smth similar by starring in Conan and later Terminator but also doing comedies and such.
De Niro won Oscars in the 1970s and 80s. For the past 20 years, he's had a streak of mostly shitty movies. Why? $$$ It is what it is.
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JustSatan 3y ago
Wow, imagine being mega-rich and just having a huge mess of assets and spending. Fuck that.
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Foend 3y ago
Lol its just alarming that the judiciary can become so involved in a male/female relationship