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Charlie Sheen's former wife wants judge to freeze his assets

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Actor Charlie Sheen's former wife Brooke Mueller is seeking authority from a judge to freeze his assets so she can get her money from him before he get the chance to empty the account.

Mueller is calling Sheen a 'deadbeat dad' and claiming he owes her $89,000, reports tmz.com.

She is now seeking authority from a judge to freeze his assets so she can get her money from him.

Last month, Sheen had filed court document asking to drastically cut the payments he makes to Mueller, complaining that he's "so broke that he's not able to afford the $55,000 per month.

 

Sheen had been earning $613,000 a month from his "Two and a Half Men" residual payments.However, the actor recently had to sell the rights to those residuals for a lump sum payment of $26,750,000.

While it's unclear what happened to all that cash, Sheen now claims to average an income of $87,384 a month, though February was particularly paltry with only $6,261 coming in.

The actor told the court that he has expenses of $105,000 a month, medical bills of $25,000 related to his HIV treatment and owes nearly $1 million in legal fees as well as credit cards approaching $600,000.

The "Anger Management" star is father to six-year-old twins Bob and Max with Mueller, who he was married to from 2008 and 2011.

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First Published: Apr 14 2016 | 5:22 AM IST

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