Robert De Niro, one of the all-time Hollywood greats with a string of awards for his nine Martin Scorsese movies including The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, Cape Fear, The Unotuchables as well as Wag the Dog, Silver Linings Playbook etc has gone noticeably off track over the past two decades with a string of clunkers – Meet the Fockers, Meet the Parents, Dirty Grandpa – and worse recent lame TV adverts for a breadmaker and a car company. His lawyer now claims he is “working at an unsustainable pace” in order to support his about-to-be-ex-wife Grace Hightower and pay off all his back taxes. Her lawyer retaliated that he had been “unfairly decreasing” the agreed-upon payments including cutting her credit-card expenses from $461,000 a month to “just” $127,000 from January.
He hooked up with Hightower in the late 1990s with a two year marriage which split and got together again in 2004 which more or less coincides with his downturn and bad career choices.
He was born 17 August 1943 3am New York and has a 2nd house Leo Sun square Mars in Taurus conjunct Algol; with Jupiter Pluto and his North Node in Leo in his 2nd. Money will always have been a driving force in his life with a strong tendency to profligacy and gross indulgence when it comes to spending with no limits and on the evidence less inclination to save for tax.
What is astro-intriguing is his ex-Grace, born 7 April 1955, also has Mars in Taurus conjunct Algol in an extraordinarily difficult, stubborn-to the-nth-degree, and hard edged opposition to Saturn square Pluto. Her Pluto is conjunct his 2nd house Sun so she will be drawn to controlling him financially and exacerbating his worst habits. But if ever two people should never have got hitched they are it. Their relationship chart does have an affectionate composite Sun opposition Venus with a passionate Venus trine Pluto so there would have been an attraction which ended in disappointing with a composite Sun trine Neptune. But it’s that stand-out Mars Algol which has obviously wreaked destruction on their relationship and his judgement.
When the couple finally split four years ago tr Neptune was conjunct his Pisces Moon and starting to move round his T Square of Mercury Venus in Virgo squaring onto an impractical 12th house Saturn and that won’t clear till early 2024 after an uncertain tr Neptune square his Saturn is finished. In 2018 as well tr Uranus just into Taurus was aiming to square his Pluto and Jupiter which he’s now in the midst of. Tr Saturn is just into his 8th till April 2023 which will be tight financially (comparatively speaking) – and tr Saturn square tr Uranus is also tugging on his extravagant Jupiter Pluto in Leo this year.
It’s an unedifying divorce spat which has left the judge unimpressed. He said: “I want to get these parties divorced – to go their separate ways. They will still come out of this richer than almost any human being who walks this earth. There is nothing ordinary about these expenses. For 99.9999 per cent of the world, these are extraordinary to an almost unimaginable degree.”
It’s not clear that De Niro can untarnish his legacy any time soon with tr Neptune heading to conjunct his Midheaven between now and 2024.
Hollywood at its worst.
Grace seems to be having a ball. Some people just get money too easily.
I doubt any of this is will tarnish Robert De Niro’s legacy. His financial situation and ex-wife situation are actually very trivial and irrelevant to most people. In fact, I would assume that most people aren’t even aware of any of it.
What will tarnish his legacy are the abysmally bad films he’s been making and oddball adverts.
@ Marjorie,
Well..that’s true. I really haven’t enjoyed any of his films since Taxi Driver. Of course, I was more impressed with Jodi Foster’s performance in that film than his.
It’s an unedifying divorce spat which has left the judge unimpressed. He said: “I want to get these parties divorced – to go their separate ways. They will still come out of this richer than almost any human being who walks this earth. There is nothing ordinary about these expenses. For 99.9999 per cent of the world, these are extraordinary to an almost unimaginable degree.”
These are not average people with average lifestyles so I won’t speak from my wallet. Either De Niro has aged out by Hollywood standards or he chose poor material in the hopes his divorce would be finalized in less time than it has taken. I have no doubt he will land on his feet…but he’s gotta pay those taxes.
How Grace Hightower can justify $461,000 a month is eyond me. Even the lesser amount is way beyond what the average woman
expects. Robert De Niro is an old man and you can hardly expect him to go on forever. He isn’t the only actor that has done work purely for the money. Judges need to act fairly in such circumstances. And that means she can’t expect such payments indefinitely.
Going by the mantra that” “Greed is good,” doesn’t wash when you bankrupt the goose that lays the golden egg!
How Grace Hightown can justify $461,000 a month is eyond me. Even the lesser amount is way beyond what the average woman
expects. Robert De Niro is an old man and you can hardly expect him to go on forever. He isn’t the only actor that has done work purely for the money. Judges need to act fairly in such circumstances. And that means she can’t expect such payments indefinitely.
Going by the mantra that” “Greed is good,” doesn’t wash when you bankrupt the goose that lays the golden egg!
Thank you Marjorie. What awful transits he has – Saturn currently approaching the South Node in the eighth looks heavy duty.
I’ll never forget film critic Mark Kermode’s review of ‘Dirty Grandpa’; ”Somewhere in hell there is a multiplex playing this on a double bill with ‘Movie 43’ and ‘Entourage’.”