July 10, 2020 | 1: 08pm
Robert De Niro will likely be living in upstate Contemporary York “for the foreseeable future” ensuing from the coronavirus pandemic, his attorney acknowledged during a court docket hearing Thursday.
The “The Irishman” actor attended a Skype hearing in his divorce case with Grace Hightower in which she used to be asking a resolve to report De Niro to elevate her month-to-month bank card restrict from $50,000 to $100,000 and affords her catch admission to to his upstate three-home compound.
De Niro’s attorney, Caroline Krauss, informed the resolve that his estranged partner and their two youth must never be granted strange exercise of the “Gardiner property” — an obvious reference to an Ulster county town — because the “Raging Bull” star and his other younger folk and grandchildren idea to continue to preserve there.
“He intends to dwell in Gardiner for the foreseeable future,” Krauss acknowledged of De Niro — who grew up in The wide apple and has deep roots within the metropolis. “He’s as a minimum 76 and within the category of folk for which COVID-19 is harmful.”
“Mr. De Niro’s other younger folk are there. His grandchildren are there. Mr. De Niro’s son has a scientific situation and he’ll die if he will get COVID,” Krauss acknowledged.
Hightower’s attorney, Kevin McDonough, acknowledged the pair and their two youth — Helen, 8, and Elliot, 21 — were going there “for the last 15 years.” McDonough requested that Hightower and the younger folk catch “strange” exercise of the sprawling property from July 10 through July 15 and July 31 through Aug. 15 because the trio has been forced to dwell in The wide apple at a Central Park home during the pandemic.
McDonough additionally renowned it’d be belief of as marital property to be shared because there were “tens and tens of thousands and thousands that went into creating the home” together.
Nonetheless Krauss acknowledged De Niro has had the home since 1996, earlier than the couple began a relationship a year later.
The wide apple Supreme Court Justice Matthew in a roundabout map dominated that De Niro must pay Hightower a additional $75,000, which “must enable Ms. Hightower so that you should provide some put so that you should take respite from the streets of Contemporary York Metropolis … in lieu of granting exercise of the Gardiner field.”
De Niro — who has been with Hightower on and off since 1997 — filed for divorce in 2018. The pair within the origin split in 1999 but reunited in 2004.
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