Dave Portnoy’s distinctive setup together with his estranged spouse is the discuss of the web.
The Barstool Sports activities founder revealed in an interview with Sage Steele on the finish of November that he nonetheless shares a checking account together with his spouse Renee, with whom he break up with in 2017 however by no means formally obtained divorced from.
Portnoy, who is alleged to have a internet value of $150 million, informed the previous ESPN character that he had allowed her entry to his cash for her loyalty to him through the early days of Barstool.
“We met when Barstool was nothing, so she rode the grind up with us … She was with me every step of the way, so in my mind, she’s entitled to enjoy the fruits of it,” Portnoy informed Steele. “She currently has access to all my money. If she just wanted to be like I’m taking it and be gone, she could. But we’ve had that joint bank account forever. I trust her implicitly. She has full access for a long time.”
Portnoy informed Steele that the couple break up amicably and that he nonetheless views Renee as his “best friend” and by no means feared she’d abuse the setup as a result of she is “far more frugal than I am.”
“We always got along, it wasn’t like we had a big blowout at the end or anything. The marriage just wasn’t working out the way we wanted it to,” he mentioned concerning the cause behind the break up.
The couple, which obtained married in 2009 did try to file for divorce, however a Massachusetts choose denied their petition for it final yr.
“It was denied because she and I have a very fluid relationship with our finances,” Portnoy defined. “We’ve been separated legally for a very long time, however the choose mentioned our settlement wasn’t equitable to her.’
“[The judge] was like, ‘Dave you’re worth a lot more, you have to give her half.’ But she was like, ‘I don’t want half.’ So we pretty much agreed on how to do it [without the court].”
