WWE star Hulk Hogan’s ex-wife is demanding he pay her 40 per cent of his earnings – or be held in contempt of court, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Linda Bollea, 58, is also accusing her ex-husband of ‘financial treachery’ and of attempting to conceal his assets from her.
Hogan – real name Terry Bollea – and Linda were married for 23 years but split in November 2007 amid allegations of multiple affairs on the wrestling champ’s part.
Happier times: Linda Bollea, 58, is also accusing her ex-husband Hulk Hogan of ‘financial treachery’. They are pictured together in June 2007
Family: Hulk and Linda are pictured with their children Nick and Brooke in June 2007
Now: Linda was handed an ongoing 40 per cent share in the revenue from Hogan’s businesses – which she now claims the 64-year-old wrestler is refusing to pay. Hogan is pictured in March 2018
The bitter divorce battle that followed saw the pair indulge in a lengthy wrangle over money – finally signing off on an initial settlement that awarded Linda 70 per cent of their liquid assets plus properties worth $3m in 2009.
But Linda was also handed an ongoing 40 per cent share in the revenue from Hogan’s businesses – which she now claims the 64-year-old wrestler is refusing to pay.
In legal documents filed in Tampa, Florida, on Friday, the 58-year-old demanded revenues from seven different companies registered to Hogan and accused him of attempting to conceal his earnings.
Four of the companies are registered in Florida and include TGB Management LLC and TGB Transportation while the remaining three, among them Hogan Holdings LLC, are listed in Nevada.
In supporting documents filed to court, Linda says she and Hogan created his lucrative wrestling persona together and that she was ‘instrumental’ in his success, while also raising their two children, Nick, 27, and Brooke, 30.
But she goes on to accuse him of having ‘multiple adulterous affairs in or around September 2007’ and claims he ‘began a scheme and shell game to conceal and tie up the parties’ assets and income’.
Linda then says ‘because of the Hulk Hogan’s legal and financial treachery, and suffering his adulteries and affairs, Ms. Bollea had no choice but to file for divorce in November 17 2007’.
According to Linda, Hogan had agreed to funnel all of the earnings from his companies through a financial entity called CMSA Entities – in which she has 40 per cent ownership.
But according to the new legal filing, Hogan has ‘failed to comply with the parties’ agreements’ – forcing her to return to court.
She now wants an accounting of what she alleges she is owed from July 2013 onwards and has asked for Hogan to be held in contempt of court if he fails to pay up.
Divorce battle: Linda talks with her attorney Joseph Varner III during a hearing in their divorce case in February 2009
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, her lawyer, Raymond Rafool of Miami, Florida, slammed the 64-year-old for failing to hand over the cash and described his behavior as ‘wrong and unjust’.
‘It is indeed a shame that Hulk Hogan once again will not honor the divorce agreement he made with Ms. Bollea,’ he said.
‘Linda fulfilled and fulfills her obligations and exchanged assets and rights in return for Hulk’s compliance.
‘Hulk Hogan’s breaches are wrong and unjust. He needs to do as he agreed and pay Linda what she is owed.’
Hogan’s wrestling career began in 1977 but took off in the 1980s with the rise of ‘Hulkmania’ which led to a three-year reign as WWE’s Heavyweight Wrestling Champion later that decade.
The sports star has also made cameos in a series of movies and TV shows – including Rocky III and Baywatch – usually as himself.
Between 2005 and 2007, Hogan and Linda starred together in a VH1 reality show called Hogan Knows Best which documented the family’s lavish lifestyle at their Clearwater, Florida, home.
The show was eventually canceled following a series of incidents, among them a car crash suffered by son Nick in August 2007 that severely injured a friend and saw him charged with felony underage drinking and driving.
He was later sentenced to eight months inside the Pinellas County Jail.
Meanwhile, Hogan’s marriage was also showing cracks, with the wrestler allegedly cheating on his wife with a friend of his daughter Brooke named Christiane Plante.
The affair, which Plante admitted to, ended the Hogan’s marriage, although in his 2009 autobiography, the wrestler denied ever cheating on his former wife.
Since then, the family has been no stranger to controversy with Hogan suing now defunct website Gawker after it published a sex tape showing him between the sheets with Heather Clem – the estranged wife of radio DJ Bubba the Sponge – in April 2012.
New love: Hogan has now remarried, wedding pretty blonde make-up artist Jennifer McDaniel, 44, at their home in Clearwater in 2010. They are pictured here in April 2016
Alleging defamation, invasion of privacy and negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress, Hogan won his case and eventually agreed a $31m settlement with the site in October 2016.
But the case also had consequences for his WWE career after an audio excerpt from the tape in which he went on a racist rant and repeatedly used the word n**** was published in 2015.
The recording led to the World Wrestling Entertainment severing its links with the man who was once their biggest star.
Hogan later apologized for making the comments in a statement, in which he said he had used ‘language that is offensive and inconsistent with my own beliefs’.
Hogan has now remarried, wedding pretty blonde make-up artist Jennifer McDaniel, 44, at their home in Clearwater in 2010.
Linda remains single and now spends much of her time in California where daughter Brooke has lived off and on while pursuing a music career.
Taking the matter to court: Linda filed these legal documents in Tampa, Florida, on Friday
