Child support payments of $28,000 a month.
That’s what high profile attorney Willie Gary is paying his former lover Diana Gowins monthly.
Damn, that’s a lot of money
Well it wasn’t always that way. In the beginning he was giving her $28,000 a month. But then he started getting an inkling she wasn’t using this money just for taking care of the twins they had together. According to the court documents, it turns out Diana wasn’t putting the money into the two kid’s college fund like she promised! She was splurging the money on cruises without the kids, tummy tucks, a Steinway piano, and designer clothes. She also spent thousands on private school tuition and diamonds for her oldest child, a teenage daughter from a previous relationship. Yes, diamonds.
Willie Gary got pissed
So what happened next was that Willie Gary, along with his lawyers, argued in November of 2005 to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Wright that Diana Gowins was misusing the child support to pay for things not directly related to the well being of their children together. I mean, seriously, tummy tucks and cruises? I’d be pissed off too!
They ended up winning the case and his child support payments were reduced to more modest $5000 a month, leaving Diana with presumably only one cruise every two months, instead of weekly. The judge then told Gowins, a former nurse, to go back to work and quit going crazy with her lavish spending but she refused to do so. She responded to the judge that she has a right to be a stay-at-home mom.
After a little bit, it seemed Diana didn’t like her bimonthly cruises and wanted them back up to a weekly schedule. So Diana Gowins took Willie Gary back to court to contest the reduction in child support payments.
Georgia Court of Appeals rejects the reduction
The Georgia Court of Appeals decides to side with the mother, Diana, thereby throwing out the previous ruling by Judge Cynthia Wright. The child support payments have now been re-raised to $28,000 a month.
“It’s a big decision,” said Diana Gowins’ attorney, Randy Kessler. After reading a copy of the ruling by the appellate court he faxed a letter to Willie Gary that afternoon with a demand for $300,000 immediately in order to catch up with the difference from the time that Willie was only paying $5000 a month. After this, Kessler expects Willie to resume the regular monthly payments of $28,000.
Willie Gary makes a salary of about $13,000,000 (that’s 13 million) a year, so according to Diana Gowin’s lawyer, the child support payments of $28,000 are comparable to a man earning an annual salary of $130,000 paying $280 a month for their twins.
“He agreed to it,” says Diana’s lawyer Randy Kessler. “He can afford it. He can’t just change his mind.”
Willie Gary taking it to the Georgia Supreme Court
The plot thickens. Willie Gary and his Atlanta attorney, Kenny Schatten, are now planning on appealing the decision to the Georgia Supreme Court.
“I just look at this decision [by the appellate court] as a small hurdle,” he said.
$28 thousand a month in child support isn’t chump change, even for the $13 million dollar man Willie Gary.
I agree that $28,000 a month is entirely to much for child support. This is more like parent support. The mom staying at home is not a prerequisite to increase child support. He should not be obligated to take care of her only his children. If need be he should take the children and raise hem himself to avoid this rediculous amount of support.There should be laws to ban this type of abusive misuse of the legal system. Maybe lawyers should look into creating a law or even penalties for mothers who are caught abusing and misusing support that is ment for the aid of children.
Sounds like a Typical Black man if you ask me. Im so sick of black men that I wish Black women would come together collectively and abandoned them.
Im sick and tired of Black men and their BS! She is just as bad because she scoped him out.
And started dealing with what other type of man???? White men?? White men are far more meaner than black men of Mr. Gary’s stature. This women would have been floating face down somewhere if she had done this to a white man.
I am a black woman and I agree with Ed. Women should live and let live. The goal of child support is to provide the best care for the CHILD not the mother. Get up, get out, and do something for your da%# self. The only amount that should be covered in a child support calculation is shelter, food, clothing and education. The rest, momma needs to take care of. Clearly, this momma cant so maybe the daddy needs to go pick up his children.
I dont understand the female and her comments about black men, most of the black men that are trying to be around for thier children get nothing but trouble from the mothers. Those are the ones that dont work and want to sit around and gossip with thier buddies, jobless. When you see them they look like they jumped out of ebony magazine and the kids look bad. Why does color have to do with this? Nothing, because its just as many dead beat dads white as black, and believe me just as many dead beat mothers out thier also. I love my children and I have been on a roller coaster with thier mother, yes more than one. I was represented by Mr.Gary and he has done alot for our race, and he was normal to me, and I think the court, like myself look down on sucsseful black males who are doing something for thier. Ask yourself….what does she need with 28,000 dollars for the one child. Greed plain and simple. Three months is more than the average male taking care of a family…Women of all colors just stop putting all brothers down some of us try, like myself, and Im going to court and fighting like hell to get visitation and I pay support, and the mother makes it hard because she knows thats the only way she can hurt me……Keep it real
In the words of Jamie Foxx, “I ain’t saying she no gold digger, but she ain’t messing with no broke negroe.” He’s a well educated/intelligent, married millionaire. First of all, he’s married to another woman. Second of all, he should have been using condoms with someone he’s not married to because I’m sure she was/is engaged in other relationships. I ain’t mad at her, Diana Gowan. She’s my hero. Men need to think with their brain and not with their penis.
Furthermore, currently child support is not figured on the amount needed to raise a child; it is based on the person’s income. That’s where that thinking part should have come in. He had much more to lose than she did; as a matter of fact, she had nothing to lose & a lot to gain.
I’m sorry this had to come to the public’s eye for his wife, children, the law firm, and even him. I still have a lot of respect for him.
I hope Attorney Willie Gary wins the Supreme Court case! This woman is obviously self-serving and manipulative and no doubt conspired to get pregnant. So many women today use children as pawns to hurt the man or control him, and couldn’t careless about the damage they are doing to the child. The child essentially becomes a yo-yo and is “granted” to the father by the Custodial mother only when he “acts right” or complies with her every wish. Often these fathers, like Willie Gary have their own lives that don’t include these women, and could even be married. At that point, the game is even more elevated because the bitter woman attempts to use the child to break up the relationship he has chosen for his life. Trust me, I know. I used to be the main person saying, “There is nothing that should make a man stop fighting to have a relationship with his child”. But at a point, it becomes exhausting. The harassment never ends, and the court litigations…and the court couldn’t careless if the mother is yo-yo-ing the child–all the court cares about is CHILD SUPPORT. Let the man not pay what is ordered and all hell is exacted on his life! My husband’s ex-wife is a living terror
Did you all read the above. Diana had a career (nurse) and One child. And her brief affair with Willie Gary changed her life with twins. Coming from a single mother perspective. He lives lavishly why can’t she and Children,for that matter. While in the relationship I am sure he made empty promises to her like all men do. Diana, like any other (white) woman deserve to be a staty at home mom and drop her kids off at school, go to the gym, the mall, get a tummy tuck whatever the f&#% she want to do. If he(Mr. Gary) was so worried about having to pay child support then Mr. Gary the very smart ATTORNEY should have worn a rain coat. More than likely Mr. Gary Scoped her out like most men do and like any woman she went with the flow. I don’t blame her. As women we always want the best for our children and yes Mr. Gary could provide those things for her and her then one child, he went an added two children. Whose the Dummy him or her? I would say him. We teach our children to be careful and wear condems, what he thought he was the exception to the rule. Those children and her deserve to have just like he does. If he did not have the means we would have never heard about this story. They are his children and she is there mother, and now he must pay. Remember you can’t put a price on what it take to care for a child and in his case, his children are expensive because of his pocket book carries a lot of weight. Do the math that the government do to determine the amount of child support a person is suppose to pay. 13 million equals 28,000 a month. Obviously he new that or he would have never agreed to it.
This is unbelievable. $28,000 a month and not contributing to her children’s college fund. Yes, Willie should pay support for the children. Diana should support her own habits and lifestyle. Diana should get off her ass and get a job to provide for herself and older child. She is nothing but a gold digger.
as an African man i must say gary is a royal idiot
he was not held up at gun point. he had fun while it lasted. he agreed to the amount and now he’s crying foul
the woman saw someone she could get over on and gary was the willing clown…isn’t that what they teach in america anyway?
he should have kept his first name in his pants
Dee Dee you sound like an angry overweight Black chick with daddy issues, no man regardless of race would ever want to be with a nagging complaining Btch like you anyhow. But keep this in mind, Black women like yourself continually perpetuate the negative image and stereotype of Black men in general. You ought maybe go seek out a Klansman because that’s how idiotic your statement sounds.
WHAT DID HE ACTUALLY THINK HE WAS GETTING, WHEN HE ELECTED TO HAVE A LONG TERM AFFAIR WITH HER? HE IS AN ATTORNEY, A BRILLIANT MAN, DID HE NOT THINK OF THE LEGALITY/THAT MANY LOVERS, PROSTITUTES CLAIM…HE HAS SEEN ALOT, I AM SURE!
Where is his dedication to his wife. You reap what you sow. We all make mistakes,but make your mistake using protection. We should take our marriage serious when you make a vow your not only making a vow to that womann,but to God. If you don’t want your wife anymore let her go instead of causing her more harm. Now his wife is suffering as well. This is causing 18+ years of problems at home. His lover I don’t fault her she only went as far as he let her go. It started out him spnsoring her, then turned into lovers. We live in a cruel world and alot of people in this world is about SELF. A man of his standard should know better. There’s no right in wrong….
WELL! She did get down, that is a real black woman. Most men these days dont pay alot of child support. My childs father pays only 18.39 a week. An that is what the judge thought he could pay. He had 2 jobs at the time, an that is all. I would love to get a 100 or 28,000 just more to take care of my child. Can i get alil more please. But he thinks that is all good. Now he has a wife an 2 other kids/ one on the way.(from a outside woman) brother please. stop having kids. u cant pay. I think she did get out of control with the money. But she let it go to the head. Am not like most woman, I just want him to help. She is 11yrs old now. Can I get a lawyer to help me. She can eat that up in a day. Diana Gowins help a girl out. Show me how to do that.