Kevin Costner might be currently embroiled in one of the messiest celebrity divorces of the year but it’s not his first rodeo. Costner, 68, is locked in a legal battle with his second wife, Christine Baumgartner, after she filed for divorce in May and history seems to be repeating itself.
Costner’s 1994 separation from Cindy Silva, his wife of 16 years with whom he shares his now-adult children, Annie, 39, Lily, 36, and Joe, 35, wound up leading to one of the most expensive celebrity divorces of all time. Silva, who met Costner while the two were in college, is reported to have received an $80 million payout from the Yellowstone actor.
As for why Costner’s first marriage to Silva ended? Reports at the time claimed Costner’s rumored infidelity pushed his ex-wife, who once starred alongside Costner in Dance With Wolves, to file for divorce. According to a People cover story from November 1997, Silva ended the marriage because of rumors that Costner cheated on her with a woman named Michelle Amaral on the Hawaiian set of his movie Waterworld.
It was reported that a then-35-year-old Amaral was a hulu dancer at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel, where the movie was shot. However, People reported that Amaral’s husband and father of her three children previously denied the affair rumors.
Sources who spoke to People as part of the story seemed to suggest problems between Amaral and Costner were brewing for quite some time before the affair rumors, likely because of the many other accusations of infidelity that surrounded the actor. A source told People: “I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know about him [and other women].”
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