Salma Hayek’s husband has broken his silence in the big-money child support dispute over his child with supermodel Linda Evangelista.
François-Henri Pinault is refuting claims by Evangelista’s lawyer that he has not been paying any child support for his 4-year-old son. Evangelista is seeking $46,000 a month in support.
Pinault tells the current French issue of Elle magazine that he has “recognized” the boy since 2007 and that “at every possible opportunity he has participated in my family life whether in France or the United States.”
“He is totally integrated within my family,” says Pinault, adding that this relationship has extended to his sister Valentina, the child Pinault fathered with Salma Hayek in 2007.
Augustin, the child Pinault fathered with Evangelista, was born in October 2006, more than eight months after Pinault had been separated from Evangelista and around the time the Pinault started dating Hayek. He and Salma were married in 2009.
