Popular American actor Tyrese Gibson detained for failing to pay new court-ordered child support
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Popular Hollywood Actor, Tyrese Gibson has been detained by the authorities after he failed to pay the monthly $10,000 child support payments a judge ordered him to make to his ex-Samantha Lee.
Gibson – who shares five-year-old daughter Soraya with Lee – was held in contempt of court Monday morning during a hearing over the matter.
Judge Kevin Farmer was upset over Gibson’s refusal to make the monthly $10,000 child support payments the actor was ordered to begin paying in April 2023.
Farmer held Gibson in contempt of court Monday. And the ‘Fast & Furious’ actor was placed in handcuffs by the bailiff and taken out of the courtroom.
The judge offered Gibson the chance to resolve the issue and avoid jail time if he paid $73,000. That figure includes Samantha’s attorney fees, which total $7,500.
Gibson had been making payments to Lee. However, it has not been the $10,000 figure the judge ordered him to begin making last year. Tyrese Gibson has been paying his ex around $2,200 every month as of 2023.
His wife approached the court to ask that the monthly payment be increased because the actor had new projects fetching him more money.
Tyrese took to social media recently to lament over what he called a scheme to fleece him by his ex-wife and her lawyers.
However, his efforts to thwart the plan of his wife proved abortive.
