Mel Gibson's Former Partner Oksana Grigorieva Receives Just $250,000 Of A Pre-agreed $15 Million Payment After Appeals Court Rules In His Favor..

An ill-timed radio interview has reportedly cost Mel Gibson’s former partner half a million dollars of an agreed settlement with the Hollywood star.  

The Californian Court of Appeal are understood to have denied Russian pianist Oksana Grigorieva the remaining $500,000 of a pre-agreed $750,000 payment for staying silent about their turbulent relationship after she reneged on the deal by talking about Gibson on The Howard Stern Show in 2013.

Gibson, 60, had already paid Oksana – the mother of his six-year old daughter Lucia - $250,000, but TMZ claim the actor is no longer obligated to pay the outstanding balance due to her forfeiting their agreement.

The sum had already been significantly reduced from its original figure, a staggering $15 million, to be paid on the condition that she keep secretly recorded audio-tapes out of the public arena.

But after Oksana, 46, released the tapes - in which Gibson can be heard using racist language and threatening to beat his then girlfriend -  the amount was drastically reduced.

The appeal court's ruling means the pianist has only received 1/60 of what she could have received from the star.


Speaking in 2011, Gibson - currently in a relationship with 24-year old Rosalind Ross -  admitted he felt 'regret' about what was said in the audio-tapes, but claimed the recording have been 'edited'.

He also said he felt deceived by Oskana, telling Deadline Hollywood: 'Who anticipates being recorded? Who anticipates that? Who could anticipate such a personal betrayal?

'You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship.

'It's one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn't represent what I truly believe or how I've treated people my entire life.'

In March TMZ claimed Oksana was planning a fresh legal bid to have her $20,000 a month child support payments from the actor increased by 400 percent to more than $1 million a year.