Sia’s estranged husband Daniel Bernard is seeking over $250,000 per month in spousal support from the pop superstar.
The singer split from Bernard in March after three years of marriage and now the former radiation oncologist has requested the staggering sum, as well as $300,000 for legal fees and another $200,000 to cover the cost of forensic accounting.
According to court documents filed on 9 October in Los Angeles and obtained by PEOPLE, Bernard claimed he has been left with no income after he stopped working in his regular job in 2021 to open a ketamine treatment clinic with Sia, and insisted the 49-year-old singer was aware the move would lead to his medical license expiring.
The former couple – parents to 18-month-old son, Somersault – formed a company, Modern Medicine, in 2022 but the documents alleged Sia stopped funding the venture in March this year.
Her estranged husband hasn’t received a salary since then, despite an alleged agreement for him to continue in the business until July.
The former medic requested the huge spousal support figure in order to maintain the “luxurious and upper-class lifestyle” he had enjoyed with Sia, which included over $400,000 in monthly expenses for private jets, vacations, high-end dining and several full-time members of staff.
Sia’s estranged husband Daniel Bernard is seeking over $250,000 per month in spousal support from the pop superstar (pictured together in 2021)
He wrote: ‘We never needed to monitor our living expenses… I request that the court order Sia to pay me temporary spousal support in the sum of $250,856 per month.
‘Orders are necessary at this time because I am financially dependent on Sia, the breadwinner in our marriage. I have no income and Sia has ceased all funding for Modern Medicine.
‘Sia has the ability to pay me spousal support to maintain our financial status quo.’
Daniel stated he will “need to complete several years of training and pass several rigorous exams before I can renew my certification and practice radiation oncology again.”
He also claimed his request for the money to cover his legal and accounting fees will “level the playing field” between himself and his estranged wife.
Around the time the Cheap Thrills singer filed for divorce, Daniel claimed she paid for him to live in a hotel until the end of July, before he moved into his current home.
He has paid over $100,000 to lease the property for a year but alleged in his court documents that Sia – who also has two adopted teenage sons – refused his request to reimburse him for the cost.
Sia filed for divorce from her second husband in March after two years of marriage.
In 2017 she divorced Erik Anders Lang after just two years of marriage (pictured in 2015)
The Grammy-nominated Australian singer-songwriter whose legal name is Sia Furler filed the petition in Los Angeles Superior Court.
It listed Tuesday as their separation date. As happens in the vast majority of California divorces, she cited irreconcilable differences as the reason. She asked the court to award no spousal support payments to Bernard.
She’s also seeking legal and physical custody of their 11-month-old child, Somersault Wonder Bernard.
It’s not clear when the secretive singer began dating Bernard, or how they met. They were legally married in December of 2022 and had a small marriage ceremony in Portofino, Italy, the following May.
From 2014 to 2017, Sia was married to filmmaker Erik Anders Lang.
In 2019 she became a mother to two adopted teenage boys. Both were 18 years old at the time and about to age out of the foster care system.
In 2020 she told GQ that she wanted to stay ‘single for the rest of my life’ following her divorce from Lang.
The singer has been nominated for nine Grammys. Five of them were for her 2014 hit Chandelier.
It’s not clear when the secretive singer began dating Bernard, or how they met. They were legally married in December of 2022 and had a small marriage ceremony in Portofino
