Game of Thrones star Lena Headey’s mega salary revealed during custody dispute
GAME of Thrones star Lena Headey’s eye-watering salary has been revealed during a bitter custody dispute.
THE ex-husband of Game of Thrones star Lena Heady is demanding she pay for his legal fees in their custody battle over their son.
Peter Loughran has claimed the actress can afford to pay his $52,000 legal costs because of her high earnings playing Queen Cersei in the HBO drama series, according to The Sun.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lena, along with co-stars Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, all earn around $A1.3 million ($US1 million) per episode.
And, according to TMZ, in the new court documents, Loughran has claimed Lena should pay because he has no permanent job.
The judge in the case has yet to rule on his request.
Lena and Irish musician Loughran married in May 2007 and welcomed son Wylie in March 2010. But they split in 2011 and were divorced by Christmas 2013.
They are currently locked in a custody battle over Wylie after Lena filed new evidence last month to take their son to the UK because she needs to make the move for work.
The current custody order allows her to take her son to Britain only when she films, but Loughran claimed her work there should have finished by now.
But then she handed over a letter from the Executive Producer of Game Of Thrones demanding her presence on the set until February 2017.
The letter from Bernadette Caulfield allegedly says she must stay in the UK for ‘possible addition scenes and pick-ups’ for another three months.
This latest chapter in their battle comes after reports she was ordered by the custody judge to return to the US with Wylie after she enrolled him in a school in Yorkshire without her ex-‘s permission.
Loughran attended court to complain that by doing this, she had violated their 2013 custody agreement.
This story was first published in The Sun and is republished here with permission.
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