Damn, Dzaddy: Jesse Williams Ordered to Pay Over $50,000 a Month in Child Support

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According to court documents filed in Los Angeles Tuesday and obtained by E! News, Williams has been ordered to pay $50,629 a month in child support to his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, to support their two kids, Maceo, 2, and Sadie, 4.

Looking at that as a yearly sum, this means Williams will be paying his ex a little bit more than $600,000 a year in spousal support. Previously, Williams had paid Drake-Lee around $33,242 in monthly child support before she submitted a petition to have the sum raised.

Williams did fight back, though. According to E! News, court filings earlier this month show Williams asking a judge to deny Drake-Lee’s request.

“[She] exaggerates many of our expenses and the children’s needs, while also lumping her personal expenses as expenses for the children,” Williams said in the documents.

But court records also show that the Grey’s Anatomy star significant monthly income could have been a factor in the ruling. Currently, Williams takes home more than $521,000 a month in earnings.

At the moment, the pair split custody of the kids, with Williams seeing Maceo and Sadie every other weekend and two days a week. Williams and Drake-Lee married in 2012, when Williams was still a schoolteacher in New York. He filed for divorce in April of last year.

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