Weighed down by sky-high divorce payments, and veteran actor Robert De Niro acting just to make money?

Actor Robert De Niro is said to be running low on cash to support his ex-wife Grace Hightower by paying her a whopping child support fee.

That's his lawyer, Caroline Krauss, who, in front of a Manhattan judge at an online hearing on Friday, painted a pretty scary picture of an old drama about to die:

"Mr De Niro is 77 years old and although he loves acting very much, he should not continue to work at such a breakneck pace. When will it stop when he has to work 12 hours a day, six days a week, to satisfy Ms. Hightower's Stella McCartney cravings? If he gets sick one day, all hell breaks loose."

Isn't it sad that the 70-year-old actor is working so hard to fill his ex-wife's material needs that he doesn't want to retire?

Hightower's lawyer, Kevin McDonough, contends that since he filed for divorce in 2018, De Niro's child support payments to Grace have been steadily reduced, from $375,000 a month to a recent $100,000 a month.

"While Mr. De Niro is thinking about forcing his family out of their longtime home, he is lavishing money on his own consumption."

They were both online at the same time, De Niro on the phone and Grace Hightower on video.

So is Grandpa De Niro rich or not rich? It's back to the beginning.

Robert De Niro was married twice, the first to actress Diahnne Abbott for 12 years before they divorced in 1988.

Grace Hightower, who became famous as Mrs. De Niro, is a typical story of a marriage that transcends class.

According to the profile, Grace Hightower, from Mississippi, grew up poor, working to support herself and her family, because of her love of travel, she worked as a TWA flight attendant, settled in Paris and London, worked as a fund trader and restaurant waitress.

Her fate changed in 1987 when she met De Niro, 12 years her senior, while working at an upmarket Chinese restaurant in London, Mr. Chow, and began dating him, marrying him in 1997 after a decade of on-off dating.

Grace Hightower is also a prominent figure in New York social circles as a philanthropist. She serves on the boards of the Women's Foundation of New York and the New York Public Schools Fund. She is also a member of the Ronald Perelman Advisory Committee on Women's Heart Health and the International Women's Coffee Alliance. Including the American Cancer Society in New York City.

At the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, Grace was a guest on Fashion For Relief, a charity project, and walked the runway with Jane Fonda.

She founded Grace Hightower & Coffees of Rwanda in 2013, a coffee brand that aims to improve the lives of local people by promoting Rwandan coffee internationally.

I even made guest appearances as an actress and singer. I appeared in the 2009 Precious, which I love, and sang the lead vocals on one of the original songs.

Sister Cow also cameo a social worker, almost no makeup on the camera is very rare, we still remember.

It has paid off. Grace is reported to be worth $16 million.

De Niro has six children, including his eldest son Raphael, 42, a former actor and New York real estate executive, with ex-wife Abbott.

He also adopted Abbott's previous daughter, Drena De Niro, 47.

His first child with Grace, Elliot, born in 1998, is autistic.

His twin sons Julian and Aaron, born to an unknown mother in 1995, and his youngest daughter Helen, born to Grace in 2011, were all surrogates.

This isn't the first time Grace and Grace have divorced in their 21-year marriage.

They divorced in 1999 after only two years of marriage, with Grace accusing De Niro of cheating and substance abuse, and De Niro of having a volatile temper.

No one expected that De Niro had received prostate cancer surgery and treatment in 2003. As a result of his illness, he had a new awareness of life. In 2004, the two men repeated their wedding vows and announced that they were getting back together.

But the reunion was not without conditions, and the two signed a prenuptial agreement, which is now the focus of the divorce battle.

Page Six first reported the breakup in November 2018, and De Niro officially filed for divorce a month later.

As for the reason for the second divorce, at that time, there was a rumor that it was because zz philosophy was different, Grace support Trump, De Niro, everyone understand. "Grace and I have two beautiful children and are entering a difficult and constructive transition in our relationship," De Niro said in a statement to People. "As a good mother, I respect Grace and ask everyone to respect our privacy as we move forward in our roles as partners as parents."

According to the prenuptial agreement, if the couple ever divorced, De Niro would have to buy a $6 million apartment, sell the $20 million Manhattan apartment, split the proceeds 50/50, pay an additional $500,000 in cash, and pay $1 million a year in alimony.

The $20 million home refers to the 6,000-square-foot, five-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West that the couple moved into in 2014.

That sounds like a lot of money, but Grace, for her part, believes De Niro should give up half of his $500 million fortune. To that end, she has issued six subpoenas demanding that a judge dig through 15 years of De Niro's financial records.

Allan Mantel, Grace's lawyer, told the judge that De Niro had earned $300 million from 35 business ventures and 38 movies since 2004.

Her lawyer argued that De Niro's business ventures, A stake in the upscale restaurant chain Nobu, the Tribeca Grill, the 88-room Greenwich Hotel and the Canal production company Productions -- the bulk of his $500 million fortune -- Grace should own half of them.

In addition, De Niro owns a 32-hectare (78-acre) estate in Gardiner, New York, and properties in Tribeca, New York; New Paltz, a small town in Ulster County, New York; and Montauk, Long Island.

The feeling of being stripped of bone by a cramp is probably not good, and De Niro covered his face with two newspapers as he left court in April 2019. A reporter asked, "What do you want to say?" ", De Niro replied with a significant smile, "Yeah, 'Go f -- k yourself'?" Then get in the car and leave.

First came the ex-wife's pursuit of his possessions, and then came the sequel, in which both sides now accuse each other of being materialistic.

This time, De Niro's lawyers played the pandemic card, and Krauss told the judge that Nobu and Greenwich had been closed for months because of the pandemic, with little or no revenue. Nobu lost $3 million in April and $1.87 million in May, which forced De Niro to borrow money from business partners.

"For De Niro, if everything starts to pick up this year, he'll be lucky to make $7.5 million this year."

Grace's lawyers pointed out that De Niro had spent years redecorating his Montauk mansion, rented a helicopter for Sunday brunch in Connecticut and flew private when he visited friends in Florida and elsewhere.

"Even paying $1,500 for first class isn't good enough for De Niro -- he'd rather spend $50,000 a weekend renting a private jet."

De Niro went on to point out that Grace ran up $215,000 a month in credit card bills and another $160,000 a month in cash expenses.

The woman's lawyer also revealed that De Niro spent $450,000 on a rental home in Amagansett in the summer of 2019, $150,000 on a Thanksgiving vacation and $1 million on his adult children in 2019 and 2020, "enough to prove he is not poor."

The man's lawyer went on to accuse Grace of spending $1.2m on boutiques: "She likes to buy Dolce and Gabbana, Stella McCartney, Etro, Manolo Blahnik... It's a long, long list."

Jewelry, too -- two pieces worth $700,000 and $1.2 million, respectively, in the last three years.

"It was outrageous and De Niro made it clear she couldn't spend money like that."

I looked it up myself, and De Niro was reported to owe $6.4 million in taxes in 2015, the year of 2013. Forbes reported at the time that De Niro, who is worth $200 million, probably didn't think much, especially since the tax arrearage resulted in a tax lien on De Niro's property, which he soon paid back in taxes, interest, and penalties.

According to a new report from the New York Daily News, the proceeds from De Niro's next two films will help pay his $18.25 million income tax bill for 2018-19.

That's a lot for two films, which means De Niro was paid a friendly $5 million for Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman."

She doesn't earn a lot, but does her ex-wife spend too much?

But anyone who has watched the reality shows of the richest people in Europe and the US, from the Real Housewives to Resplendent Empire, can probably get a glimpse of the spendthrift lives of the top class. There is no limit to their desires and there is always "good stuff" you can't afford.

The Versailles dispute between the two sides did not even sit well with the judge. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper put it this way: "The consumption listed by both sides is extraordinary and unimaginable to 99.9999% of the world's population. I hope these two get divorced soon. Both Ms. Hightower and Mr. De Niro are richer than anyone else on the planet."

I have never been hit by a huge amount of wealth, it is difficult to imagine the extravagant life, just sigh: or husband and wife, your is mine, after a beat two scattered, it is clear.

"Can not get forever in the commotion", but the man fickle up you don't want to move a penny. Well, De Niro wants to use the sale to keep most of his money.