Viggo & Exene

Ex attempts to cash in on Viggo Mortensen's new fame
[from The Smoking Gun]

Like the ex of Jim Carrey, actor Viggo Mortensen's former wife has petitioned a Los Angeles judge to order the Lord of the Rings star to increase child support payments for the couple's teenage son.

According to a Superior Court filing last month, Christene Edge contends that she needs more dough to cover the 16-year-old boy's assorted expenses (computers, trips, tutoring, car insurance, parties, etc.).

Edge, 48, now works as a teacher/librarian, but is best known as the former lead singer of the seminal L.A. punk band X, which she fronted under the name Exene Cervenka.

The couple's 1998 divorce agreement requires Mortensen to pay Edge $3000 monthly in child support (which, when the deal was signed, was actually about $900 less than she was entitled by statutory guidelines). Edge now wants about $18,000 a month from Mortensen, whose career has exploded, earning the 45-year-old star in excess of $3.3 million last year.

Edge and Mortensen are scheduled to appear today in Los Angeles Superior Court on her motion for increased support payments.


Published June 14, 2004


So I wonder how it turned out?

I could look it up, I guess. I'm somewhat of a gossip=lover, believing there is sometimes a kernel of truth even in rumor, and I like to see what people's life experiences are. I used to think when I overheard people at other tables in a restaurant talking that it was probably more interesting than anything that would be going on at my table, and that I might learn something. Duh. I totally don't think that way anymore, not in restaurants, and can't imagine that what I might overhear would be more interesting or more appropriate than what's going on at my table.

But sometimes items like the above intrigue me.



( and the gerbil's loose in the basement, not interesting unless you are horribly bored, and even then... )

Viggo

( An interview from Sunday Herald online--'Viggo's tired of...'. Just more Viggo stuff, probably not very interesting unless you're a Viggo fan rather than just a drooler, )

So I called the police when I saw him sleeping under the porch...

I went out kind of late to get the mail, happened to notice that the sleeping bag I'd put on the very top of the garbage can was not there. I leaned over just a little and looked under the porch. Sure enough, there was guy lying there. He must have thought maybe someone only shows up once or twice a week to get mail or whatever.

I called 911 and the police came. He was gone by then, but under the porch there were even more clothes, a pleather jacket and a backpack. They told me if he comes back to call. Also they said he's on private property, so he's a trespasser. I put all his stuff in a garbage can, didn't put it on the street, but just beside the porch. The police had told me to put a sign at the entrance to the underporch area saying "trespassers will be PROSECUTED". So I put two up, one saying "Stay out! Private property," and the other "Trespassers will be prosecuted".

I looked out less than an hour later, and the garbage can was nearly empty, but for a bit of junk in the bottom. So I guess that's that. I was a bit freaked out when I saw him sleeping under there. There was a whiskey bottle, Wild Irish Rose bottle, and some empty soft drink cups cans & bottles. Also some McDonalds lidded cups full of water and an unopened packet of ramen noodles.

Hopefully he understands the house is occupied now.