Former Playboy Bunny Thinks She Should Be Immune From Child Support

[Brent]

Jesus, the spin on this "story" is almost more than I can take. Think the reporter might be just a *bit* biased?


Twins' daddy twists knife No, the REAL title should be "Twins Dad Requests The Child Support He'd Automatically Get If He Was The Mommy"
 
BY BOB PORT
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
 
He got her kids, and now he wants her money, too.
The big-bucks corporate exec who stunned New Yorkers by taking 4-year-old twins away from his ex-mistress sued her yesterday for child support.

John Aylsworth makes $521,000 a year as president of riverboat casinos in Missouri and Mississippi.

Bridget Marks, 38, the former Playboy model who lost legal custody of her daughters to Aylsworth last month and does not have a job, was nearly speechless. "I just don't understand," she said. "It's just too ridiculous."

"It's like pulling the wings off a fly," said Raoul Felder, the city's dean of divorce law, who is not involved in the case. "This shows a kind of arrogance, to even attempt something like that."

Aylsworth's attorney was unavailable for comment. A hearing in the bizarre custody drama is scheduled in Manhattan Family Court today.

Aylsworth, 54, a married man for 34 years, began an affair with Marks in 1998 that ended bitterly in 2002. He had paid Marks $6,000 a month after Amber and Scarlet were born in September 1999. He stopped the payments in late 2002, but in early 2003 a court ordered him to fork over $4,200 a month.

On May 21, Manhattan Judge Arlene Goldberg awarded custody to Aylsworth and his wife on the grounds that Marks alienated the girls against their father and made false accusations that he sexually abused them.

Under New York law, Aylsworth may win child support from Marks, but probably not much. Using a legal formula, a judge would start with $80,000 or more as an annual child-rearing cost, then divide that amount in proportion to each parent's income. Marks then would owe a fraction of that amount.

With no job and legal bills of nearly $800,000, Marks relies on her mother, fiancé and others for help. She got a $25,000 book advance this year for a romance novel but owes an editor one-third of that and an agent 10% to 15%.

Still, the law would let a judge "impute" an income figure for Marks based on odd sources of cash. The judge could also calculate extra costs for the custodial parent, such as private school and medical care - and even baby-sitters to help Aylsworth's wife, who cares for her cheating husband's love twins.

They impute it for men, why not for women? Hmmmm?


Hal Mayerson, co-chairman of the state Bar Association's custody law committee, called the child-support suit "nothing more than harassment."

"This is the dumbest thing this guy could do, because he's now opened his finances to Bridget Marks," Mayerson said. "I don't understand why this was done other than to to just drive her crazy."