Paul Pierce Cries Poverty In Grim Men’s Court Documents

Paul Pierce claims he's having trouble making ends meet. The extraordinarily divorced Celtic great and occasional television bomb-out is paying a cumulative $48,000 per month in child and spousal support, to at least two ex-wives, per court documents obtained and reported by TMZ. That is a lot of money. His latest ex-wife, Princess Santiago, with whom Pierce engaged in a public and nasty paternity dispute, is reportedly asking a court to award her another $40,000 in legal fees, and for $10,000 to hire a forensic accountant. She suspects that Pierce has been dishonest about his resources. Per TMZ, Pierce filed paperwork in response to this request, claiming that he is broke and "drowning" under his financial obligations. Some of Pierce's trouble comes from job instability. Pierce lost a well-paid ESPN gig in 2021 after posting selfie videos to social media from a profoundly grim house party. Pierce later insisted that he did not regret the tragic scene, or regret posting the video of it, and didn't really even regret losing his job at ESPN, a situation that he said had already become strained. It took him three years to land another network gig, but Pierce filled some of the time filming grim livestreams with Kevin Garnett in a deal with sports gambling outfit BetMGM. In March 2024 Pierce was brought on at Fox Sports 1 as a basketball analyst; per TMZ, his contract with FS1 paid him $1.5 million annually. He started as a contributor on Skip Bayless's Undisputed; when Bayless departed and Undisputed folded, Pierce joined Joy Taylor and Keyshawn Johnson as co-hosts of the show Speak. That also blew up, in July 2025, when Taylor was jettisoned and Speak was cancelled. It seems like Pierce was still collecting some of this sweet FS1 income into this year, per documents from his latest divorce, reported by TMZ back in July. According to those documents, Pierce was hauling in about $165,000 per month for the first half of 2026, although some of this income was from various side deals; you know damn well Pierce was being paid by an online sportsbook.

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