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Tawny Targets Hubby with Suit
Tawny Kitaen may not be a baseball player like her estranged husband, but she's got a mean brushback pitch.
The former Bachelor Party babe has slammed said spouse, Chuck Finley, with a $12 million lawsuit, claiming the St. Louis Cardinals star broke a promise to finance her life, for the rest of her life.
Finley did not talk about the lawsuit with reporters before Tuesday's game in St. Louis. His attorney also has declined comment.
The lawsuit claims Finley did a lot of talking on Valentine's Day 1991. On that evening, Kitaen's complaint says, the crafty left-hander produced a diamond engagement ring and a key to his home, and asked the model-actress to be his model wife. (The two wed...in 1997.)
In those heady days, the lawsuit says, Finley allowed Kitaen to spend as much of his baseball fortune as she so desired. And then, in 1992, when Kitaen became pregnant with their eldest daughter, Wynter, he reputedly served up the big, fat hanging curve: He asked Kitaen, then cohost of ABC's America's Funniest People, to become a full-time mom--a full-time mom he would support forever and ever.
Kitaen says she accepted the offer, and cut back on her workload in 1993, thus depriving the world of her talents in both The New WKRP in Cincinnati (a gig which paid $15,000 a week) and Funniest People (a gig which brought $22,000 a week). No word if the lawsuit acknowledges that both TV shows ended about the same time that Kitaen was supposedly retiring: WKRP in 1993; Funniest People in 1994.
Kitaen, 41, and Finley, 39, have been on opposite teams since April 1, when she was accused of digging in her heels, literally, during a fight with him in a moving car near their Newport Beach, California home.
The actress, who'd merely worn, not deployed, stilettos in a bevy of Whitesnake videos in the late 1980s, was arrested and booked on spousal abuse charges.
Kitaen has maintained her innocence, says her attorney, Blair Berk. In order to have the charges dropped, Kitaen agreed last week to stay away from Finley, undergo a year of counseling and donate $500 to a battered women's shelter.
In her lawsuit, Kitaen says she devoted herself to Finley during their decade-plus together. She managed his house and his life. She performed God's work by helping him select his hair color, a delightful dirty blond.
And then there was the big intangible: Her celebrity rubbed off on Finley, the lawsuit says, boosting his career--and his earning power. (He made more than $9.6 million last year with the Cleveland Indians.)
Finley filed for divorce on April 4, three days after the high-heels incident. He accused his wife of being a danger to their two children--a second daughter, Raine, was born in 1998--and, according to Kitaen, cut her off from his bank account.
Since the arrest, Kitaen had a stint in rehab for prescription drugs, and Finley got traded to the Cardinals, where he's now bound for post-season play.
Kitaen's breach-of-contract suit was filed September 17 in a Superior Court in Orange County, California, and was tracked down by reporters on Monday.
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