June 4, 2009
Child Support Lottery and Keanu Reeves
Canadian Karen Sala is seeking millions of dollars in retroactive child support for her four grown children. She claims Keanu Reeves is the father of her offspring which is a claim a spokesperson for the actor says is false. Sala states that she has attempted to privately resolve this issue, without any resolution. She is now looking to the courts to assist her in this matter. It is reported that the first hearing will take place on July 6th, 2009.
“I’m pissed,” Sala says, “I just want him to stand up and be a man.”
The mother of four children aged between 20-25 years says that she is seeking the support to help with the cost of universities and provide “closure” for the kids. This is particularly interesting because in California child support ends at age 18 (19 if the child is still attending high school). Additionally, California law limits claims to “back child support” only as far back as the original filing date of her action.
In her lawsuit she has asked for a DNA sample from the famous actor, as well as child support of $150,000 per month, retroactive to June 1988, plus $3 million per month in spousal support back to November 2006! Obviously neither she nor her attorney have done the math on this claim as this probably exceeds Reeves total net worth by a factor of two.
A spokesperson for Reeves said in a statement, “Karen Sala’s allegations are completely false and absurd. Mr. Reeves has no knowledge of who she is.”
And he should know given that he was supposedly having an affair with Sala over a period of 5 years that was somehow kept totally secret – even as paparazzi followed his every footstep back then! In fact, he was born in 1964, so this affair must have started when he was barely 21!
I think absurd was a good choice of words.
Child Support in California 