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Michael Strahan's Ex-Wife Scraping by on $3.7M Savings

Apr 4, 2007 – 6:59 AM
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Michael David Smith

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I feel confident saying the majority of people reading this spend less than $4,700 a month on their rent or their mortgage payments. But Jean Strahan, the ex-wife of Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, can't afford the $4,700 a month she has to spend -- on utility bills for her mansion.

Yes, the $3.6 million mansion Mrs. Strahan and her infant twins live in is so enormous that it costs $4,700 just for heating and cooling. And she says she can't afford it on the $3.7 million savings account she lives on, which is why she wants the court to force Michael Strahan to pay her more

I feel very strongly that fathers should be forced to support their children, and I don't object to rich fathers like Strahan being forced to spend big money on child support. But there's something unseemly about this Strahan divorce case. I'm not a legal expert and I don't know all the facts of the case, but the courts seem to have approved a situation in which Jean Strahan is receiving Michael Strahan's money for things so foolish as "$27,000 to dress her infant twins and another $22,500 to photograph them in their snazzy wardrobe." Something doesn't seem right here.

The picture shows Strahan with his new girlfriend, Stefani Vara.
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