By the point Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller married in 2008, he had already lived by way of a sequence of turbulent romances and marriages.
In 1984, when he was simply 19, Charlie and his highschool girlfriend welcomed a daughter named Cassandra. Quick ahead a number of years, and Charlie was engaged to actress Kelly Preston. Sadly, their engagement ended shortly after a chaotic incident during which he unintentionally shot her within the arm.
Sheen received married for the primary time in 1995 to a girl named Donna Peele. This union ended the next yr.
His second marriage, to actress Denise Richards, lasted from 2002 to 2006 and produced two daughters, born in 2004 and 2005.
As Sheen’s divorce from Richards was nearing its conclusion in late 2006, he was launched to actual property investor and occasional actress Brooke Mueller by way of their mutual buddy Rebecca Gayheart. Charlie and Brooke married in Might 2008. Ten months later, in March 2009, they welcomed twin sons, Bob and Max.
By 2010, nonetheless, their marriage had begun to unravel amid Sheen’s public meltdowns, rehab stints, and more and more erratic conduct. In Might of that yr, Sheen ceded his joint authorized custody of his daughters to Richards, who had lengthy sought sole custody on account of his sobriety points and the volatility of their former relationship.
In November 2010, Mueller filed for divorce. Their turmoil escalated on March 1, 2011, when the couple’s twins had been faraway from Sheen’s dwelling by police after social companies obtained a report from Mueller stating, “I’m very involved that [Charlie] is at present insane.” On the time, Sheen was dwelling with a number of grownup movie actresses, together with Bree Olson, whom he known as his “goddesses,” in the course of the peak of his extremely publicized “profitable” media spiral.
The instability continued for years. In Might 2013, Charlie and Brooke’s twins had been briefly positioned in Denise Richards’s custody after baby protecting companies intervened once more.
For sure, the final 20 years of Charlie Sheen’s household life have been terribly chaotic, marked by cycles of custody battles, habit struggles, authorized disputes, and ongoing monetary battle. And it is not over.
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When Charlie and Brooke received collectively, he was the king of tv due to “Two and a Half Males.” His work on the present made him the highest-paid tv actor on the earth. If you embrace backend syndication factors, within the present’s later seasons, Charlie earned $2 million per episode. In a 24-episode season, that meant Charlie was incomes round $48 million per yr.
In March 2011, proper across the time when Brooke reported that she was involved that he was “at present insane,” Charlie was fired from “Two and a Half Males” after getting right into a public spat with the present’s creator, Chuck Lorre.
Three months after his firing, Charlie and Brooke finalized their divorce. In keeping with the phrases of their settlement, Charlie paid Brooke a one-time payment of $750,000 and agreed to pay her $55,000 per thirty days till their sons turned 18. On the time, their boys had been two years previous. The $55,000 month-to-month funds had been alleged to final by way of March 2027.
Sadly, in accordance with a courtroom submitting made by Brooke final week, Charlie apparently stopped making his $55,000 month-to-month funds shortly after their divorce settlement was signed. Brooke’s submitting claims Charlie owes an quantity “totaling $8,967,600” not together with curiosity. Should you divide $8,967,600 by $55,000, you get 163. As in, Charlie reportedly hasn’t paid help in 163 months. That roughly places his final fee at roughly Might 2012. As in, precisely one yr after their divorce was finalized.
That is not all.
Brooke’s courtroom submitting additional claims that Charlie owes $6,418,643 in curiosity for the alleged unpaid baby help. For a complete debt of $15,386,243.
Denise Richards has had comparable fee points with Charlie over time. In 2019, Denise filed paperwork alleging Charlie owed her $450,000 in unpaid baby help. In a submitting on the time, Denise additional claimed that Charlie squandered a one-time windfall of $24 million from the sale of his possession in “Two and a Half Males.” Cash that was supposed to assist him get squared on their debt.
Maybe on account of their monetary woes, in 2022, Denise and Charlie’s eldest daughter, Sami Sheen, made headlines when she joined OnlyFans. Denise adopted her daughter to OnlyFans quickly thereafter. When Denise was going by way of a divorce in 2024, it was revealed that she makes round $250,000 per thirty days, a big portion of which presumably comes from OnlyFans.
Charlie, who as soon as boasted a web price of $150 million, has claimed to be in a “dire monetary disaster.” Charlie got here very near foreclosures on at the least one event earlier than lastly promoting a longtime mansion at a steep loss. He briefly moved in together with his dad and mom and now rents a apartment in Malibu for $16,000 a month. It is practically inconceivable to peg his web price right this moment, particularly given his reported huge money owed. FYI. Youngster help can’t be worn out in chapter. Charlie has not responded to Brooke’s filings as of this writing. If and when he does, we’ll report again.
