OC Housewife Lynne Curtin Is Broke, Living Below Poverty Level
October 14, 2013 Gossip by Lindsay Cronin
Lynne Curtin appeared on The Real Housewives of Orange County during the show’s fourth and fifth seasons and while she and her husband Frank seemed to be doing quite well when it came to their finances, things quickly began to fall apart. In 2009, the pair was accused of stiffing the IRS to the tune of $32,000 and then in December of last year, Lynne and her husband broke up.
Now, Lynne is once again in the news and this time, it is in regards to her request for spousal support.
In documents obtained by TMZ, Lynne is claiming that she has just $100 to her name and needs her estranged husband to help her out financially. According to Lynne, she spends about $512 per month on clothes, entertainment, eating out, laundry, and her phone bill, but makes only $250 per month (which adds up to $3,000 per year — much lower than the poverty level for a single household which is $11,702 per year).
Lynne also states in the documents that she had to take out a loan just to pay for her lawyer.
Lynne and her husband were married on April of 1990 and split in January of last year. Shortly after Lynne filed the documents to end her marriage, Frank released a statement, expressing his shock at her filing.
“I’m not a willing participant in this. It hurts to even think about it or talk about it. Call me old-fashioned, but I take my vows very seriously,” he told the Orange County Register. ”I’m deeply in love with my wife. Business is so bad, it has caused a lot of stress in my relationship. I love my wife. She’s just not herself right now.”