Walmart heiress Paige Laurie Dubbert is done with husband Patrick Bode Dubbert, but it’s going to cost her a pretty penny to be rid of him.
Paige — whose mother, Natalie Walton Laurie, and aunt Anne Walton Kroenke inherited a multibillion-dollar fortune when their father, Bud Walton, died — recently filed for divorce from her husband of five years, reports TMZ.
Shortly after she filed for divorce, Paige also filed a civil lawsuit against her soon-to-be-former husband, according to a later report by the website. The suit accuses Patrick of funneling huge money out of a business — a retail center in Malibu, Calif., that Paige financed.
Allegedly, Patrick hired a friend to co-manage the project. The duo then named themselves general contractors on the project — positions they were completely unqualified for — in order to up their monthly pay (from $15,000 to $75,000). All of this on top of the $250,000 a year Patrick was already being paid to monitor the project.
It’s unclear how the civil suit will affect the couple’s divorce proceedings; the pair signed a prenup before their wedding entitling Patrick to spousal support should the marriage dissolve.
Along with the divorce, she plans to legally change her name back to Elizabeth Paige Laurie.
This is far from the first embarrassing incident for the heiress. In September 2005, she returned her degree to the University of Southern California after it was revealed that she had paid her former roommate $20,000 to do her course work for her.