He famously has 12 kids with six totally different girls, so it’s honest to marvel how a lot Nick Cannon pays in baby assist—and if he may even afford to take action.
The exceptionally fertile TV host-turned-professional child daddy was born Nicholas Scott Cannon on October 8, 1980, in San Diego, California. His large break got here in 1999 when he grew to become a forged member of Nickelodeon’s sketch comedy present, All That, during which he starred from 1998 to 2000. After All That, Cannon went on to create, star in and government produce his personal sketch comedy and improv sport present, Wild ‘N Out, on MTV. The present debuted in 2005 and has run for greater than 18 seasons. Cannon’s internet hosting jobs continued with exhibits just like the Nick Cannon Present, Lip Sync Battle, America’s Bought Expertise and The Masked Singer.
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How a lot does Nick Cannon pay in baby assist?
In an interview with The Neighborhood Speak in November 2022, when he had 11 kids, Cannon revealed that he pays greater than $3 million every year in baby assist for his burgeoning brood. “I positively spend much more than [$3 million] on my kids yearly,” he stated. “I don’t plan to ever must take part within the governmental system of kid.”
However in an interview with The Jason Lee podcast in an episode launched on Might 8, 2023, Cannon stated the six girls he has kids with can have “no matter they need, no matter they ask for.” He defined, “My cash is that they cash, they cash is my cash. … My account is their account, and there’s rather a lot in there, so we ain’t gon’ run out [sic].” He continued: “I consider true foreign money is your power,” he stated. “I want I may make a contract [that says], ‘You can’t take this a lot of my power once you depart.’ … Cash comes and goes. I at all times inform individuals, ‘Cash don’t make you cheerful. Pleased makes you cash.’ So I’m at all times going to be good, and each greenback that I make is for my household.”
The episode was recorded earlier than Bre Tiesi, who debuted on Promoting Sundown season six and with whom Cannon shares his eighth baby, defined that the courts may get Cannon off the hook solely for baby assist funds. Her co-star Amanza Smith requested Tiesi if it’s true that somebody doesn’t must pay baby assist after having 10 kids, to which Tiesi responded: “That’s true. … The best way it really works is like, after 10, the court docket can mainly say he can’t afford to pay baby assist. Or as a result of he’s who he’s, they may say, ‘We all know you possibly can afford X quantity for every family.’”
Tiesi insisted she doesn’t want Cannon’s cash to assist her or their baby, nonetheless, and that Cannon is greater than beneficiant together with his sharing his estimated $20 million web price. “I deal with myself,” she stated. “If my son wants one thing, or we do, I ask, that’s all I’ve to do. I do know he’s a very good dad and Nick is just not my sugar daddy, Nick is just not the explanation I’m the place I’m at.” She continued in a confessional interview: “I positively try to be the very best at all the pieces, to the purpose the place I drive myself insane, however I’ve labored my ass off to be the place I’m at,” she added. “I did this all myself, and naturally, my son is much more of a motivation. I wish to give him all the pieces from me. Not from my associate.”
However Tiesi and Cannon clearly share a humorousness over how a lot protection their financials are receiving within the press. Earlier in Might, Tiesi took to Instagram to point out off a glowing new Lamborghini Cannon had gifted her. “I nonetheless can’t consider what I woke as much as!!! @nickcannon I’ve no phrases. I needed to simply sit right here and stare at it, and cry with ledgy. You go above and past! We love you a lot!!! If I didn’t already really feel like a foul bitch, I positively do now!” she wrote within the Instagram put up. In a responding Instagram story, “Nope! The Authorities don’t have to inform us to pay Youngster Help… WE PAY LAMBO SUPPORT !!” Cannon wrote. “My Cash is Their Cash! Simply settle for it, We totally different over right here !! LOL.”
Cannon additionally advised Males’s Well being in June 2022 that he believes he’s extra “engaged” in all of his kids’s lives than the “common” mum or dad is with their children. “Opposite to well-liked perception, I’m most likely engaged all through my kids’s day, extra usually than the typical grownup might be,” he stated. “If I’m not bodily in the identical metropolis with my children, I’m speaking to them earlier than they go to highschool through FaceTime and stuff. After which when I’m [in the same city, I’m] driving my children to highschool, like, ensuring I choose ’em up.” He continued, “I’ve seen the place individuals consider a standard family works, and [yet] there’s numerous toxicity in that setting. It’s not about what society deems is correct. It’s like, what makes it best for you? What brings your happiness? What lets you have pleasure and the way you outline household? All of us outline household in so many alternative methods.”