Jim Nantz Must Pay $1 Million a Year in Alimony, Child Support

CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz has been ordered to pay alimony and child support totaling nearly $1 million a year in a divorce case that the judge ruled was the fault of neither Nantz nor his wife of 26 years, Lorrie.

Nantz, who makes about $7 million a year, was ordered to pay Lorrie $72,000 a month in alimony until either he dies or she remarries, the Connecticut Post reports. Lorrie will keep their six-bedroom home and the condo occupied by her mother, and Nantz must pay $70,000 a year for her to have a country club membership.

For their 15-year-old daughter, Nantz must pay $1,000 a week in child support and all of her college expenses until she turns 23. The total support comes to about half a million dollars a year less than Lorrie was seeking in the divorce.

Nantz admitted that he has a 29-year-old girlfriend, but the judge said that relationship wasn't the reason for the divorce. Judge Howard Owens' ruling stated, in part:

"While there was some testimony of the husband's interest in another woman in the few short months preceding the filing of this dissolution action, the breakdown occurred years before this relationship developed and the court finds this remote event in no way contributed to the breakdown of the marriage. ... The court finds neither party at fault for the breakdown of the marriage."

Nantz and his wife both became emotional during testimony about their divorce, with Lorrie saying he had been distant and Nantz saying she had failed to support his career. After both cried during a difficult day of court testimony, the two were seen hugging outside the courtroom. But with Judge Owens' ruling, their marriage is officially over.

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