Love is patient, love is kind, love is… apparently very expensive. Los Angeles Chargers offensive lineman Ben Cleveland has agreed to pay his ex-wife, Kaitlyn Terrell Cleveland, a cool $550k in their divorce settlement. Yes, you read that right. Half a million dollars and then some. That’s a lot of blocking money.
Now, Ben is built like a brick wall. He moves defensive linemen for a living, but even he couldn’t block this financial hit. Marriage is a team sport. Divorce? That’s the playoffs. And somebody is definitely going home with a trophy.
Ben vowed to give Kaitlyn a lump sum payment of $550,000, though some of that money will go toward paying off a 2024 Land Rover he agreed to give her possession of, according to a copy of the agreement.
The payment appears to be in return for Kaitlyn relinquishing her rights to some real estate owned by the former couple, according to the agreement.
Ben also gave up any rights he had to Kaitlyn when it came to a golf cart, some rugs and pillows, bedroom furniture and kitchen dishes.
Kaitlyn, meanwhile, agreed to return Ben’s gun and thermal scope, and allowed him to retain possession of two Georgia properties, according to the agreement.
Both sides stated they’d pay their own attorney’s fees, and the two acknowledged they would not make “any disparaging comments about the other party in any form” or “post anything about the other party on any social media platform.”
At the end of the day, this is just another reminder that athletes are human too. They fall in love, they fall out of love and sometimes, they fall into six-figure settlements.
So here’s to new beginnings. Kaitlyn walks away with $550k, Ben walks away lighter in the wallet but hopefully wiser in the heart. And the rest of us? We’re just over here double-checking our prenups, or at least considering one, because if there’s one lesson in all of this, it’s simple: in the NFL of marriage, the contracts really matter.
