Giada De Laurentiis Gets Burned Big in Divorce – Pays Big Bucks to Todd Thompson – Punished For Bobby Flay Affair?

Giada De Laurentiis Gets Burned Big in Divorce – Pays Big Bucks to Todd Thompson - Punished For Bobby Flay Affair?

Giada De Laurentiis is known to be a culinary genius – but it looks like she’s cooked up a mess with her divorce from hubby Todd Thompson. Giada and Todd were married 11 years and had daughter Jade (7). They will now share custody of the little girl – and, according to their divorce documents, they will also share custody of a lot of Giada De Laurentiis’s money as well.

Giada and Todd Thompson married without a prenup so that means there’s a lot of cha-ching coming his way. In addition to $9,000 a month in child support, Todd will get 50% of a pile of Giada’s projects including cookbooks already published and some she’s written but not yet released. Todd also gets an LA home worth more than $3 million, millions from a joint bank account, art and more.

Giada’s fashion designer husband is worth millions himself, so you have to wonder why Giada De Laurentis had to pony up so much to Todd Thompson. With their mutual net worth so close in value the settlement doesn’t make sense. Was Giada buying a quickie divorce and Todd Thompson’s silence? Rumor has it that Giada was less than faithful during their marriage…

In addition to steamy rumors about fellow chef Bobby Flay, there was gossip that she was cooking up some romance with Matt Lauer and John Mayer. That’s a pretty eclectic group of men to be tied to romantically – even if some of it is unsubstantiated. But the Bobby Flay gossip is what’s really interesting. Here’s a look at the time line.

Just prior to Giada De Laurentiis and Todd Thompson announcing their divorce, Giada and Bobby Flay were spotted out for dinner and drinks, laughing and reportedly looking intimate. Then, soon after Giada filed for divorce, Bobby Flay filed for a divorce from his actress wife Stephanie March and theirs was much messier than Giada and Todd’s split.

Bobby Flay did get Stephanie March to sign a prenup before they got hitched, but she asked the court to throw it out because he was a cheater. A friend of Stephanie’s even hired a plane to fly a “cheater” banner over Flay’s Walk of Fame ceremony when he got his Hollywood star on the walk. In the end, Bobby caved and paid Stephanie March a lot more than he legally had to – likely to buy her silence.

And now that Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay’s divorces are both final, how long before the two make an official appearance as a couple? Heaven knows the two sure paid enough for the privilege (allegedly). If Giada and Bobby were indeed doing the deed, that had to have been one of the costliest affairs of all time…

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