Rebecca Minkoff has plans in place in case her husband, Gavin Bellour, finds another partner in the event of her death — or a divorce.
“I remember, we were about to get married, and I was like, ‘Babe, babe, we need a prenup.’ And I had nothing and he had nothing. But I knew I was going to be something, and I knew he could be something,” Minkoff, 44, said on the Monday, March 24, episode of the “Trading Secrets” podcast. “Somewhere there’s a napkin that’s like, ‘What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is yours,’ is what it said.”
Now, Minkoff and Bellour have a joint account for family, and “everything else we make on the side is just ours to do with whatever we want.” (Minkoff and Bellour share four kids.)
“I inserted a floozy clause into our will. … If I die and he shacks up with some new hot young thing,” she explained, noting that this is a “legitimate” contract and not just on a napkin. “He shacks up with someone, immediately all my assets, everything goes into a trust for the kids. So that girl has no chance of getting anything that I make.”
When host Jason Tartick clarified that this clause is if Minkoff dies, the former Real Housewives of New York City cast member replied, “Or if we get divorced.” Minkoff clarified that if Bellour got remarried, he’s “not out” of the plan.
“It’s just everything goes to the kids, and he can manage it, but he can’t go buy her stuff with that money,” Minkoff noted, adding that her mom came up with the idea. “I was like, ‘That is smart.’ I was like, ‘Babe, we’re putting in a floozy clause.’”
However, if Bellour doesn’t find another partner after a hypothetical divorce, Minkoff said that their assets would be divided.
“I wanted to just insert it, not that I don’t trust my husband, but my mom was like, ‘It’s not that you don’t trust your husband, but it’s the spell another woman can cast on them after you’re dead,’” Minkoff said. “I don’t know, call me crazy.”
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In the beginning of her relationship with Bellour, Minkoff claimed that the couple had “nothing.” The couple, who tied the knot in 2009, ultimately set up their finances to be a ratio depending on who makes more.
“If I’m making a third more, then I’m putting in a third more into the family and joint account. And then again, the rest of the money is mine,” she said. “We have this central place that’s for the family, for the kids. Whoever is making more — take it on a year-long basis — if you’re making $100, and I’m making $200, great, I’m putting in double.”
