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Carrey settles dispute
23/04/2003 11:43 - (SA)
Los Angeles - Comedian Jim Carrey has ended a battle over child support with his ex-wife Melissa, who argued that $10 000 a month was not enough for their 15-year-old girl, the star's spokesman said on Tuesday.
The new monthly allowance for their daughter Jane was kept secret, but the mother had asked for a "significant" increase.
According to usually confidential court documents posted on the website thesmokinggun.com, Melissa Carrey said her daughter's needs have increased with her age and that she wanted to build her a Pilates exercise room and a music studio at home.
Melissa Carrey, whose divorce from the comedian and actor became final in 1995, claimed in request to modify her divorce settlement that she needed extra money to provide her daughter Jane with a "lifestyle that his commensurate with the lifestyle she has when she is with" her famous dad.
The mother claimed in the documents that Carrey, 41, had and "extraordinarily high" income that bought him a $25 million jet and two luxury homes filled with all modern conveniences.
The star of films such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar Dumb and Dumber also has five cars, including three Mercedes Benz, frequently uses limousines and was whisked off to work each day by helicopter when he made a recent film, Melissa said.
She and Jane share a "modest" home in Hollywood, that she can only afford to give her daughter an allowance of $40 a week, according the documents.
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