Actor Owen Wilson is paying US$25,000 (AU$36,500) a month in child support for his five-year-old daughter Lyla, who he has never met.
According to court documents obtained by Radar Online, Wilson demanded a DNA test after learning his on-again, off-again girlfriend Varunie Vongsvirates was pregnant. Vongsvirates, who he had dated casually for five years, filed a paternity petition in May 2018, about five months before Lyla was born.
Responding to the petition, Wilson marked 'none' when asked whether he wanted visitation rights and claimed he was not sure if he was the parent.
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After Lyla's birth in October 2018, a DNA test confirmed he was her father. He did not ask for visitation rights after his paternity was confirmed.
Wilson, 54, and Vongsvirates, in her late 30s, eventually settled on a $25,000 monthly child support payment, plus a one-off payment of $70,000 to cover a labour coach, night nurse and Vongsvirates' legal fees.
Lyla is also to be covered under Wilson's Screen Actors Guild medical insurance.
The court document also states that Vongsvirates and Wilson shall "not make disparaging and/or derogatory remarks about the other party, or their significant others, if any, in the presence of the minor child".
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I'm sure Wilson has his reasons for not meeting his daughter, and it probably has to do with her mother's behaviour. Those Instagram posts and public messages strike me as incredibly manipulative and juvenile, like she's using her child to try and gain fame and celebrity for herself. How sad.
I'm not going to criticise the mother because I know nothing about her, but it does seem odd that he's happily supporting his other children and not this one. I'd guess there's much more to the story than we know. And fair enough, too, not really our business, is it!
Agreed - this is why it's called 'private' and yet so apparently not-private.
It's weird, the more private you are are, the less privacy you get.
I think celebs are a little bit damned either way. Live your life openly, talk about what's going on, and you're oversharing and need to keep it to yourself. Try and keep it private, and you clearly have something to hide, so we'll dig around in your life and follow you until we come up with something. And if we can't find something, we'll just start insinuating and hinting and flat out making shit up.