Out of pocket! 'Kerry Katona to get £1.66 a week in child maintenance from ex-husband Mark Croft'
She has finally sold the house she shared with Mark Croft but lost £200,000 in the process and Kerry Katona is looking likely to be further out of pocket thanks to her ex-husband.
It has emerged that Croft has been ordered to pay the reality TV star just £1.66 a week in maintenance for each of their two children, according to reports.
The Child Support Agency is said to have fixed the tiny sum because Croft, 39, said he only earns £75 a week working in a café, according to The People.
Measly sum: Mark Croft, pictured with ex-wife Kerry Katona before they split, is said to have been ordered to pay just £1.66 a week for each of his children
And while he can fork out only the paltry sum for his two children with Kerry, four-year-old Heidi and three-year-old Max, it has been alleged by the paper that he still drives an Audi A4 red convertible with a personalised number plate and is said to enjoy a holiday in the Canary Islands.
Croft, who Katona split from in 2010, also has a son from a previous relationship. The ruling means that the mother of that child will also receive only £1.66 a week.
A source close to Katona told The People: ‘She knew Mark would be reluctant to pay for his children but this amount is so derisory. It’s a complete insult.’
The financially-troubled star has finally sold the Wilmslow mansion she once shared with Croft, but suffered a £200,000 loss.
Financial troubles: Sources close to Katona called the sum her ex-husband will pay 'derisory' and an 'insult'
The Dancing On Ice contestant bought the Cheshire mansion in 2007 for £1,225,000, according to the Mirror.
She is finally rid of the house but made a substantial loss on the deal after accepting £1,025,000.
Katona is currently renting a £3 million mansion in Surrey for a staggering £5,500 a month.
Bad memories: Katona shared the mansion in Wilmslow with her ex-husband Mark Croft. She has lost £200,000 on the sale
'Dark days': Katona and Croft before they split in 2009
The six-bedroom has an indoor swimming pool, gym, spa and cinema room.
She moved into the house in February after agreeing to share the rent with her management Can Associates and the move was chronicled in her ITV2 show Kerry Katona: The Next Chapter.
Katona sold her five-bedroom, red-brick pile in Wilmslow to footballer Glenn Whelan, the Mirror reports.
It holds bad memories for the star - the bathroom was the setting of her infamous cocaine-snorting video in 2009 and in 2007 she was held captive in the house by three armed burglars.
A spokesperson for Katona was unavailable for comment.
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