Giada De Laurentiis is officially a single woman. The 45-year-old celebrity chef has finalized her divorce from Todd Thompson after 11 years of marriage - but not without a cost.
According to her divorce documents obtained by TMZ, De Laurentiis has been ordered to pay Thompson, a designer for Anthropologie, $9,000 dollars in monthly child support. The pair, who tied the knot in May 2003, will share joint custody of their seven-year-old daughter Jade Marie.
As for properties, Thompson will walk away with the couple's $3.2 million house in Pacific Palisades. The Food Network star's ex will also keep $300,000 worth of furniture and artwork, along with his membership to the Bel-Air Bay Club, which is located near his mansion. The couple's joint bank accounts, totaling more than $2 million, will also be divided. De Laurentiis will keep all of the rights to her soon-to-be released Italian cookbook and her production company, Linguine Pictures.
De Laurentiis is ordered to give her ex-husband 50 percent of all net book royalties for books she published during their marriage and 50 percent of the unpaid advances to several cookbooks, including a $2.5 million balance for "Giada at Home/Weeknights with Giada," $2.3 million for "Giada Feel Good Food," and $757,000 for Everyday "Pasta/Giada's Kitchen."
The Food Network Star announced their split on Facebook in December, writing, "Although our decision to separate comes with a great deal of sadness, our focus on the future and overwhelming desire for our family's happiness has given us the strength to move forward on separate, yet always connected paths. Todd and I share a beautiful daughter and a lifetime of great memories that we both treasure more than anything. We are so thankful for our friends and family, and really appreciate the support in this time of change."
Neither Giada nor Todd has been ordered to pay spousal support. De Laurentiis is worth an estimated is $20 million while Thompson is worth $15 million.
