CHICAGO, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin's big-dollar divorce could cost the billionaire over $1 million per month in alimony if estranged wife Anne Dias gets her way.
CNBC reports that, according to Dias, her expenses include " $6,800 a month for groceries, $7,200 a month for restaurant meals, $8,000 a month for gifts and $2,000 a month for stationery. he also claims his wife has sought $450,000 for a 10-day vacation in St. Bart's during the children's winter break."
Griffin says he already pays for their three children's four nannies in addition to "virtually every expense" the children incur, as well as financing Dias' private chef, house cleaners and personal assistant. The hedge fund billionaire insists Dias' alimony request has little to do with their children's well-being and is instead an attempt to subsidize her "opulent lifestyle."
"She claimed she wanted this because she did not want to continue living in Chicago, which she considered to be unsophisticated," Griffin's attorney's wrote in their filings. They say Dias, originally born in France, preferred San Francisco and New York to the Windy City, but "Ken would not agree to such a provision because it would undermine his relationship with his hoped-for children."
"The children have friends and extended family in Chicago. Anne's parents live just blocks away from the marital residence (and) Ken's mother, whom the children visit frequently, lives in a suburb."
A spokesman for Dias disputed Griffin's characterization of her to Crain's Chicago Business, saying, "Ken Griffin, one of the wealthiest men in the world, continues to lie with impunity and to brutally and shamelessly attack the mother of his children in an effort to avoid his financial responsibilities to his family."
"Anne is saddened that he is using his enormous resources in an attempt to destroy her when it would be so easy for him to support his children as he always did during the marriage."
