Siegfried Axtmann was on RTL Television in Germany and said that he was the one who basically broke up his son and Tara Reid. It seems that Siegfried was a little worried that his son Michael Axtmann would end up getting divorced from Tara Reid. To me that is a strong possibility. So, because his son works for him he insisted that his son get Tara Reid to sign a pre-nup. Tara Reid refused.
"I didn't want an American court disdaining our family business and have a cuckoo's egg laid in our nest."
I am not sure what that means exactly. My German is a little rusty so maybe I translated it wrong. I wonder how much money she would have got in the pre-nup. I would love to know if you would have signed a pre-nup in her situation. Is it about love or is about money? What do you think?
"A cuckoo's egg laid in our nest" is basically saying that he thinks Tara Reid is the kind of whore who would get pregnant with another man's child while married to his son. Pretty harsh. Besides, they can check DNA nowadays.
ReplyDeleteI think he just meant an outsider would walk away from the marriage with a chunk of the family's fortune.
ReplyDeleteouch, that IS harsh. Not saying it couldn't happen, but geez.
ReplyDeleteI would sign one if I wasn't marrying for money. Really, if you are marrying for love, do you care what the payout is if you split? No, you just do it anyway. There are power differentials in marriages where one spouse (or their family) has significantly more money, but a prenup is not going to change that dynamic one way or the other.
ReplyDeleteFor Tara it probably is about money. I don't think she has much of her own.
ReplyDeleteJust how much money did her fiance's family have to worry about her gold digging from them?
Tara Reid has never been known to have an abundance of brain cells. There are not too many rich dudes who would marry her. If she was in love, she should have been happy to sign the pre-nup and go on with a happy marriage. If she was only after the money, it obviously wasn't enough.
ReplyDeleteThe guy is lucky to be rid of her. There are better bimbos available. *meow*
@robert. Your interpretation might be correct, but if so, it was a very insulting way for Axtman to say it using words suggestive of infidelity. Maybe Tara decided it wasn't worth it marrying into a family that viewed her so negatively. If that was the case, I congratulate her.
ReplyDeleteI know Tara Reid has had a skankadelic past, but I respectively disagree with Enty's take on all this. It's not like she's married a ton of men and taken all their money, so I don't know why she would have a reputation as a gold-digger.
ReplyDeleteI find being asked to sign pre-nup very insulting, actually. Perhaps it's the Catholic/romantic in me. When you say "I do" it's supposed to be forevs. So, who knows what the girl was thinking.
And just because she was a party animal in her youth, doesn't mean she wasn't ready to settle down. People do change for the better sometimes.
I think pre-nups are so weird and I am lucky that neither me nor my husband were wealthy enough to need one when we got married.
ReplyDeleteOn one hand, if my husband and I were to one day be millionaires and my son was going to marry some trashy little Tara Reid, I could see wanting to make sure that the fruits of the family sacrifice wouldn't be taken by the little tramp.
On the other hand, it is hard to quantify the support of a spouse monetarily. Let's say the son had some family money, and she signed the prenup that if they were to get divorced she would get alimony. Let's say she gets 6 figures a year for the length of the marriage. That isn't quite fair if she was a loving supportive wife whose husband was out making millions, but couldn't have done it without that support and encouragement at home.
Like I said, I'm glad this isn't a problem I have had to deal with.
Ahahaha! I have totally laid a cuckoo's egg in my husband's nest! *L*
ReplyDeleteAlso, isn't this dude gay? (notthattheresanythingwrongwiththatofcoursenot)
ReplyDeleteIf I was marrying some rich guy, and he asked for a prenup, I'd sign it. He's just protecting his assets. And vice versa - If I was the one with "old" money, I'd get a prenup - Sure, love is supposed to last forever, but look at a prenup as more of an insurance policy rather than a lack of trust. Because who knows what the future holds?
ReplyDeleteIf you marry for love, signing a pre-nup shouldnt be a problem. The only thing I would totally add a clause that if my rich spouse was caught cheating on me, the amount that would have to be paid to me be would have to increase substantially.
ReplyDeleteIf I had to sign a pre-nup I would get a good lawyer to make sure I will be well provided. Not that I am going into a marriage of convenience, but the least that I am taken care of.
ReplyDeleteWell this guy's name came up as not found on Forbes' website so maybe he isn't THAT rich.
ReplyDeleteI saw Tara on Wendy Williams' show this year and she behaved like a snob even though she's a has been.
The dad (Siegfried Axtmann) may also be a tool.
She and her ex's dad are two of a kind so this is par for the course. I don't really care about any of these three people.
It was a very harh way to say it, but the father is not totally clueless and I can understand how he wanted to protect the family business.
ReplyDeleteThe father is just trying to protect the family fortune. If Tara really loved the guy she would have signed it, they could have arranged some kind of deal with the pre-nup, everything is negotiable. I can't be mad at the father for protecting HIS family's legacy. Not saying Tara is a gold digger but if she was unwilling to sign then I think it speaks as to what she was interested in to begin with. Pre-nups were made to protect a person's assets, basically, what I had prior to our relationship is mine, and IF we do not last then I will keep what I had previously and you will do the same. It may not sound romantic but its reality, 50% of marriages end in divorce. Would you want to be married to someone who HASN'T DONE A DAMN THING in the last few years to walk away with half of your life savings if things didn't work out?
ReplyDeleteBorg Queen, I totally agree with you.
ReplyDeleteWhen my husband and I got engaged, his parents suggested a prenup. I was insulted but went along with it for a while. Truth is, I had and made more money than he did at the time, although his parents are wealthy. I guess they were worried about me getting any inheritance of his.
ReplyDeleteWhen his sister married the millionaire, I don't think it was suggested.
Fucking hypocrites.
And no, we never did the prenup. Once you have kids, it's kind of pointless anyway.
i can see both sides of this. but honestly, she should have just signed it. What if it had the "cheating" part in it as was said earlier?
ReplyDeleteim sad that she finally seems to have cleaned up her act, but now has given up something that could have been good.
Like any woman would marry his fugly gay son for anything other than money.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the dad staged this to show the son what a loser Reid is. Pre-nups are common in upper-class European families, and Reid's attorneys would have pointed that out. The contract's terms were maybe too stringent and he certainly wouldn't have wanted it governed by the laws of Cali (hello, community property!) Didn't she walk away from the broken engagement with a $20K month settlement? That alone would be a signal to the son and keep him from pining for long.
ReplyDeleteBTW, no matter what the prenup's terms where? Silly cow should have taken it -- she's not going to get anything better.
I didn't read the cuckoo comment as infidelity or bastard children but simply as an unwelcome outsider in their family business due to their divorce claims. I think it is quite standard for wealthy families to ask for such agreements and, given Tara's hot mess history, almost mandatory in her case. Frankly I think she should have signed (a) because such agreements typically leave the person "rich" by most standards (albeit not super-rich as a California community property win might) and (b) as a not too bright barely C list actress with a notorious history and within sight of forty I don't think she has too many other opportunities.
ReplyDeleteEurope has very different inheritance and divorce laws, so prenuptuals for wealthy families are a necessity, especially when a business is at stake. Parents CANNOT write their children off; the children inherit hefty portions by law. Spouses can be ommited, which protects family business, as they often have to be sold off to pay off in the event of a divorce. If she loved him, she would have understood, negotiated a fair settlement that hopefully would have never come to pass, and signed.
ReplyDeleteI think it is widely believed that cuckoo birds do not breed their eggs, but put them into other birds' nest. Cuckoo-chiken (or how are they called?) are the first to appear into this world and then they throw away all the other eggs from the nest. I am not good at zoology and don't know if this is true :)))
ReplyDeleteI think father didn' mean infidelity, but that she will come to the family and then destroy the "nest", the wealth which was created before her and not by her.
I think I missed the lead up to all this because I had no idea Tara was laying anything in anyone's nest. So she was engaged? To this guy? And the dad broke the star crossed lovers up? How very Montague of him..
ReplyDeleteI am all for pre-nups. It might not be very romantic, but sometimes you just have to lead with your brain and not your heart. I think that daddy could have worded it a little gentler. On the other hand I think he is gay and wasn't going to do his "husbandly duty". Tara thought, I don't get money or sex, f*ck this, I'm outa here.
ReplyDeleteUGH...I DIDN'T WANT OR TAKE ANYTHING...AND WOULD PROBABLY NOT SIGN...
ReplyDeleteBUT WITH TARA....OH WELL..
Maybe it's all about a grown man's daddy being able to break-up his son's engagement. Sounded like the dad was asking for the prenup. Even for Tara Reid, there are limits. I think.
ReplyDeleteWhat trouble bubble said is correct. Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests and let those birds do the hard work of feeding them. Usually the cuckoo chick thrives while the other babies die. So, in a way he was calling Tara a parasite. Tara has lived a very trashy life in a very public way. I don't blame the father for wanting a prenup. She will always have to live down her past with any man she's with in the future. The piper's payment always comes due.
ReplyDeleteOT: Did anyone see this in today's NYT?
ReplyDelete"For men’s wear, the winner was Richard Chai, who, in his comments pointed out that he was thrilled to be nominated this year along with, ahem, his former employers Donna Karan and Mr. Jacobs. He also thanked his guest, the actor Hayden Christensen."
Just because she has never done this before doesn't mean she isn't capable of gold digging. May I point out Heather Mills. You can bet your ass Paul will never marry again without a prenup. In my opinion if you are wealthy you are an idiot if you don't get one. In almost 50 % of marriages a divorce is imminent, so why lose the family fortune to an outsider? Not personal, just good business.
ReplyDeleteI would sign a prenup.
ReplyDeleteBeing the one more likely to be the poorer mate, I don't think it's saying you believe you won't last...I think it says, "I'm not marrying you for your money." In that case, I think signing a prenup is showing you'll put your love commitment ahead of your ego because you believe in the long lasting potential of your union. I would think it would be bit of a load off the richer mate, for that reason.
Sadly, this is not a situation I've had to strongly consider... ;P
Right, chihuahuense?! - Mo' money, mo' problems!!!
ReplyDeleteI love your clause idea, BorgQueen.
Well I guess you guys don't read the Dirty. Because Nik's agent Ari Golden's sex sheet was stolen from his computer. He banged Tara Feb/Mar this year. This would have been when she was "engaged". The engagement wasn't broken until mid April. Good thinking on the father's part!
ReplyDeleteAs much as I would love to be a hopeless romantic, I think when you are dealing with families with large amounts of money, a pre-nup is the most practical way to ensure you are not effed over later on. Long lasting love ain't guaranteed.
ReplyDelete...Oh, yeah, basically just what @Goodgrief said. :)
Maybe Tara didn't sign b/c the FIL was a total a-hole about it but... you gotta protect your 'tings.
I think that prenups should be REQUIRED for all marriages. Not specific terms, but an outline of how shared assets would be divided - not specific $$ but percentages. And they should be revised occasionally to reflect changes in career/income/health etc. I have seen too many "everyday people" get SCREWED in divorce. Both in having too pay way more than is fair and not getting adequate funds. Maybe not romantic, but at the same time, what is so romantic about requesting a marriage license or registering your marriage at the courthouse? It is a CONTRACT - and should be treated as such.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the father wanted a clause requiring she remain sober and not party, at least without her husband.
ReplyDeleteSo what's the significance of the Hayden thing?
ReplyDeleteI thought he was saying that Tara was the cuckoo's egg.
ReplyDeleteI agree with littlesunshine. If either partner has any kind of assets, a prenup is a good idea.
I think the Hayden was Richard Chai's date? Did I interpret that correctly?
ReplyDelete@Piper - I went to the Dirty and saw Ari Golden's sex sheet (had never heard of him before, by the way...) and it's not just a sex sheet, it's a sex spread sheet, rating everything about the girls he'd laid. WHAT A PIG.
ReplyDeletehttp://static.thedirty.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sex-sheet1.jpg
Dirt bag!
Cuckoos are famous for either laying their eggs in an already existing cuckoo's nest, or laying them in the nest of a completely different species; the cuckoo's egg matures rapidly, and after hatching the fledgling will push the other eggs out of the nest and be its sole occupant, receiving all the food from the surrogate parent. Makes what Siegfried Axtmann said much clearer now, huh?
ReplyDeleteI'm more concerned that a grown man won't marry the woman he is supposedly in love with because his daddy doesn't approve. Seriously?
ReplyDeleteI'd sign the prenup. She should have signed it too. Even if it only paid her a dollar, it's a dollar more than she has right now by splitting up without the marriage.
I would sign for me, but not for future rights of my child, and as far as I'm concerned, anyone who would say that ( and I ran it by my German pal) doesn't deserve a grandchild to torture.
ReplyDeleteGood for Tara, I hope she doesn't look back.
Wasn't this a BI on CDAN recently? Tara got engaged to a gay guy and thought she could change him.
ReplyDeleteI would sign but at this point there better be a really good Tiger Woods/Jesse James drugs and hookers clause. Nobody is immune and I'm not going through that again ever.
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